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GLOBALIST TYRANNY OPPOSED

We’ve got ourselves a local breed of Truthers. I guess they’d be called Strewthers:

Please join us at the Sydney Town Hall at 11 AM on 11 April 2007, as we are launching the Australian 9/11 Truth Movement.

We must show our government and the world that we oppose globalist tyranny, that we have figured out that 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB, staged by agents within the corporatist military industrial complex with the aim of enslaving us.

Let’s show them we refuse to be intimidated.

You do that, controlled demolishionistas. Just like militant cyclists, who gather to wreck the last Friday of every month for civilised humans, the Strewthers plan regular Strewth Outs:

In support of our friends in the U.S. we will stage a protest on the 11th day of every month from now on.

If you live in or near Sydney this is your chance to make a difference.

Oh, please. It’s not as if you’ll be turning your lights out for a whole freakin’ hour or anything.

Posted by Tim B. on 04/11/2007 at 04:21 AM
  1. 11/4/07

    Well, did anyone turn up, or was the assylum door bolted?

    Posted by kae on 2007 04 11 at 04:33 AM • permalink

  2. I think the fact that this rally is being held at 11am on a Wednesday (a work day for most of us) speaks volumes about the participants….

    Posted by ekb87 on 2007 04 11 at 04:45 AM • permalink

  3. Sydney Town Hall??!!. These wankers would be lucky to fill a phone booth in downtown Wongarbon, even if they promised free piss and pole dancers.

    Posted by EliotNess on 2007 04 11 at 04:59 AM • permalink

  4. Dress of the day is your Mao T-Shirt (with ‘free tibet’ badge for a touch of hypocracy) and tinfoil hat.

    Posted by Skip on 2007 04 11 at 05:00 AM • permalink

  5. I couldn’t help but let them know not all of America is with them. Did Australia recently accept a number of Californian immigrants?

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 11 at 05:16 AM • permalink

  6. Truth Movement?

    So if they can’t take the truth from either the West or bin Laden, who he himself said that Al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks, then clearly they are listening to the worms in the ground.

    “Truth” Movement = Lies Movement :-)

    Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 04 11 at 05:16 AM • permalink

  7. Another passing movement ...

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 11 at 05:24 AM • permalink

  8. Being Australian, you would think they would at least call themselves the Australian 11/9 Truth Movement.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 04 11 at 05:41 AM • permalink

  9. Who’s been letting the Moonbats out of the cage?

    You know who I think did it…

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 11 at 05:43 AM • permalink

  10. Not that I’m suggesting these mouth-breathers are egotistical, but just who are they expecting to give a fuck about their no doubt reasoned and well-researched theories? It’s not as if there’s a shortage of bandwagons rumbling aroung Moonbatville at the moment, but I’m sure the US Supreme Court will pay careful attention to what evidence they have, and order the marines to throw war criminal, saboteur and mass-murdering freak (under the control of the Skull and Bones, the Masons, big oil, the John Birch society, Billy Graham and Major League Baseball) GW Bushitlerlizardboy in the brig.

    Perhaps they’d be better off rallying at the Newtown Town Hall- the likely attendees are easily confused, especially if the over-medicate, and that venue’s in easy gibbering shuffle range (and has excellent drool drainage fitted).

    Once they’ve fixed Bush’s red wagon they can move on to the big cover-up:- how the Rand Corporation staged the Falklands War to provide a safe haven for Kaiser Wilhelm II, where he controls the game shows released by the Grundy Network.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 04 11 at 05:53 AM • permalink

  11. And the Bali bombings were…?

    Posted by Brett_McS on 2007 04 11 at 05:53 AM • permalink

  12. #11 A set up by the Australian Government to make us all think that terrorists really exist. Of course, the Moonbats know that terrorists don’t exist, GW Bushitlerbabyeater and John HoWARd just need reasons to scare the crap out of the public so they can remove all of our personal liberties and control us.

    Or something like that.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 11 at 05:57 AM • permalink

  13. A set up job?
    That’ll be the one where a group sets upon cylists with baseball bats.
    Some say that cyclists do not belong on the road, and that they are incompatible with other traffic. They pay no rego or third party, and these ones are overstepping the line big time.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 04 11 at 06:02 AM • permalink

  14. That’s it, #13 - turn Critical Mass into Critical Massacre - it’s been years overdue.

    Posted by EliotNess on 2007 04 11 at 06:06 AM • permalink

  15. Did you know…

    - That GW is actually Adolf Hitler’s clone? Bush senior bought him from a betel nut vendor in Bangkok in 1954. Add a little moustache and a Moe the Stooge haircut and see what I mean!!!!

    - Jimi Hendrix wrote about ALL of this happening back in 1962. Everyone said he was crazy, but who’s crazy now, huh Jimi? And the wind whispers Mary indeed.

    - Osama Bin Laden is really the illegitimate child of Aretha Franklin and Sal Mineo, I have PROOF!

    - The remote controls used to fly the airliners into the WTC towers have been found in an abandoned boiled peanut stand in Cedartown, Georgia!!! Google it!!!


    Is there any hope left for the western civilization? Are we doomed to suffer living with paramecium such as these? It’s enough to drive a guy to drinking.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 11 at 06:11 AM • permalink

  16. or even enough to make a guy leave the italics open…

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 11 at 06:12 AM • permalink

  17. #3 EliotNess

    Sydney Town Hall??!!. These wankers would be lucky to fill a phone booth in downtown Wongarbon, even if they promised free piss and pole dancers.

    The fine folk of Wongarbon would be too smart for these morons. They would have the grog and the girls in the ute and be gone before these geniuses could say molten steel.

    Posted by CO² max on 2007 04 11 at 06:14 AM • permalink

  18. Italics fixed.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 04 11 at 06:15 AM • permalink

  19. Apologies Andrea, and thanks.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 11 at 06:17 AM • permalink

  20. #15 My God, you’re right!

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 11 at 06:21 AM • permalink

  21. Sit down and work out how many people,money,equipment and time it would take to pull 9.11 off,yet no one noticed anything…

    Excuse me sir why are you removing the wall covering from all the pillars in my office and what are all those wires for…..

    Go back to work sir,nothing to see here.

    Posted by sparrow on 2007 04 11 at 06:30 AM • permalink

  22. #9 It was me. All out of dickhead bait, and thought I’d go straight to the source. Sorry, the hunt and cull for the ones that got loose has already started.

    Posted by CB on 2007 04 11 at 06:50 AM • permalink

  23. #‘s 11, 12 and 13 - Sadly, there are people out there who hold an Australian government conspiracy on Bali to be the literal truth.

    This idiot, for example, believes it was a type of false flag operation by Howard (he describes the various flag colours, finally calling this one a ‘green flag’ on Howard’s part). No proof is offered, mind you, but in the world of the conspiracy nut the absence of proof (or logic or reason) can never get in the way of a truly lunatic story.

    Worse is he is writing a PhD at Flinders University on the topic:

    Damian Lataan - Australia and the new American century: Australia-United States relations, the rise of neo-conservatism and Australia’s role in the United States’ pursuit of global hegemony in the twenty-first century.

    Sounds like it’ll be a balanced piece of work…

    Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 04 11 at 07:10 AM • permalink

  24. Read the comments, particularly the one by Hugh Jarse… Give the man a Coopers!...

    Posted by Toosmoky on 2007 04 11 at 07:19 AM • permalink

  25. Does anyone here know the identity of Mr Jarse?

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 11 at 07:22 AM • permalink

  26. #23 I see that the young grasshopper still hasn’t managed to snatch the pebble from master’s hand. What is he on? The 13-year program? Professional students are welfare recipients with text books. He’ll roll right out from his extended studies into a staff position without ever once holding a real job.  Then he’ll be teaching this wisdom to your children.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 11 at 07:24 AM • permalink

  27. #25 Yes. That would be Michael Hunt’s pudgy cousin.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 11 at 07:26 AM • permalink

  28. Seems to be some kind of weird code over there.

    Posted by CO² max on 2007 04 11 at 07:30 AM • permalink

  29. err, thanks TB.

    re#23 the Department is headed up by Professor Don DeBats (2nd link).

    It would take me a long time to come up with a better name…

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 11 at 07:30 AM • permalink

  30. #22 Just make sure you wear something appropriate when removing the carcasses.

    #23 It’s truly tragic that they can believe such rot.

    #24 Yeah, I read them and had quite a giggle.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 11 at 07:33 AM • permalink

  31. I like Mr. Bursill’s retort to the Jarse comment.

    I’m a bit slow (goes without saying) so I’ll stick to the obvious evidence first (you mean the obvious evidence aside from the obvious evidence that links the attacks to Osama Bin Laden and his merry band of murders, right?), but thanks for the heads up! Your very funny (Your very funny what? Comment? House Slipper? Tuxedo?) and short on intelligence that suits us fine here at 911oz! (probably the most significant and truthful statement this guy has ever made)

    Keep up the pointless work and keep it blunt we don’t want anyone to get hurt? (Right back atcha Babe)

    Kind regards John

    WE GOT TO TAKE THE POWER BACK!  (NOT UNTIL YOU LEARN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!) (well, at least he didn’t say GOTS)
    John Bursill

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 11 at 07:55 AM • permalink

  32. Nice commentary, Texas Bob. Those guys wouldn’t even have enough brain power between them to run a 2 watt light globe.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 11 at 08:01 AM • permalink

  33. #31 Texas Bob please feel free to Fisk leftist blogs at your leisure.

    PS how much does 911oz actually weigh?

    Posted by JonathanH on 2007 04 11 at 08:04 AM • permalink

  34. #33
    how much does 911oz actually weigh?

    My query exactly - the combined mass of their brains, perhaps?
    The combined mass of their movement(s)?
    [Metric @26kg, by my reckoning]

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 11 at 08:16 AM • permalink

  35. And the adds running on the bottom of the comments page sum up the organisers life…“meet girls for sex”....

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 11 at 08:18 AM • permalink

  36. Ye Gods.

    Even our anti-American drooling leftist retards cannot rise above being fourth-rate copycats of total whackjobs in the USA

    This is orders of magnitude beyond pathetic.

    Sigh.

    Time to apply Rule .303. It’s the merciful thing to do. These cretins… no, that is an insult to cretins… these pitiful creatures can’t even work out the simple logistics involved in such a job.

    MarkL
    Canberra

    Posted by MarkL on 2007 04 11 at 08:24 AM • permalink

  37. I assume the “Australian 9/11 Truth Movement” will get together each year on 9 November?

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 04 11 at 08:28 AM • permalink

  38. Heres a reminder of why these people should bespat onby all who meet them. No debate just spit.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 11 at 08:30 AM • permalink

  39. 911oz editor

    Ah, they’re leprechauns!

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 11 at 08:33 AM • permalink

  40. how much does 911oz actually weigh?

    This is approximately the weight of ordure produced when these people speak.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 04 11 at 08:37 AM • permalink

  41. #33
    how much does 911oz actually weigh?

    I get 28.335 kg. I based my calculation on Troy Ounces. These guys are pure gold.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2007 04 11 at 08:39 AM • permalink

  42. Nice comment MarkL on that site.

    Posted by peter m on 2007 04 11 at 08:58 AM • permalink

  43. #41
    Multiplier ~28.35 g

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 11 at 09:09 AM • permalink

  44. #10 Habib:

    Ah, the RAND Corporation.  They were big in my readings of US conspiracies in the late 70s and early 80s.  My Uni years.  Have they fallen out of favour, or gone more underground than just underground.  You’re giving me flashbacks.

    For all, I’ve heard conspiracy theories from a young age, and just about all don’t add up.  Labor politics excepted.

    Stevo

    Posted by Stevo on 2007 04 11 at 09:15 AM • permalink

  45. These poor buggers don’t realise that when the Big Red Revolution comes, they will the first before the firing squad. No room in a revolutionary society for a bunch of useless conspiracy theorists.

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 04 11 at 09:24 AM • permalink

  46. Right, like my Government is that good at keeping a secret…...

    Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 04 11 at 09:26 AM • permalink

  47. John is not at all happy with the ABC either because of their refusal to take his extensive 9/11 research seriously

    Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 04 11 at 09:32 AM • permalink

  48. Y’know I’ve just a strange thought. Maybe the site is a parody run by Margos Maid or Paco or Wronwright or somebody and we’ve all been suckered into putting up mocking disparaging comments.

    Or maybe it’s a parody site run by real ratbag truthists as a double blind blackoperation to ....

    Yahhh !! It’s all a conspiracy ...

    Posted by geoff on 2007 04 11 at 09:33 AM • permalink

  49. We must show our government and the world that we oppose globalist tyranny, Ah good, so you will be joining the war against Islamist radicals who want to establish a worldwide caliphate (Australia is really Muslim, don’t you know) that will kill gays, force women into burhkas and ban music and kite flying?

    Er, no, you would rather help them and bring down a system that has steadily seen increased life span, cheaper food, better medical care and increased concern for human rights?

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 04 11 at 09:37 AM • permalink

  50. #47 Whale Spinor. It’s sad he’s invested so much time and energy into something so utterly ridiculous. He must feel a lot like John Delorean did in 1982.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 11 at 09:39 AM • permalink

  51. Texas Bob

    OK, since we’re to bring the truth, what are you bringing?

    Can I also be the provider of the beverages? Kool Aid for them, beer for us.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 11 at 09:43 AM • permalink

  52. #43

    Not to be pedantic, but 1 troy ounce = 31.1034768 grams.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2007 04 11 at 09:44 AM • permalink

  53. On behalf of the people of the United States, I would like to make an announcement to the Australian Truthers:

    Please bear in mind that there are many fine medications available now to treat your various delusions. We strongly suggest you avail yourselves of them. And maybe lay off the blow for a while.

    While we appreciate your stated intent, we would like to remind you that life is not a movie, nor a television program, nor a comic book, and that an administration that can’t even spy on legitimate targets without the New York Times tattling could hardly be expected to keep a massive conspiracy covered up for more than five years.

    “Aha!” you may say. “That’s just what they want you to think!”

    In which case, please see the previous paragraph regarding medications.

    Thank you. That is all.

    Posted by SoberHT on 2007 04 11 at 09:58 AM • permalink

  54. There’s got to be a law somewhere that lets us club these morons like Canadian seal cubs…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 11 at 09:58 AM • permalink

  55. As long as we’re debating ounces—has anybody recorded the scientific name of the Rare Yellow-Striped Australian Moonbat? This is obviously a niche species, unable to survive in the world at large (much like several variants on Madagascar), which relies upon the unique climate of urban areas to flourish and—perhaps—reproduce. We should consider it our duty to gather as much data as possible before this species’ inevitable extinction.

    Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2007 04 11 at 10:15 AM • permalink

  56. #51 Sure thing Ash_, but make sure you put their’s in a sippy cup, or we’ll have a huge dribbling mess to clean up.

    Mmmm. Beer.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 11 at 10:18 AM • permalink

  57. #2 BINGO!

    Posted by filcan on 2007 04 11 at 10:21 AM • permalink

  58. Tungsten, I do believe research on the Rare Yellow-Striped Australian Moonbat is currently being done by the Probing of Asshats Consultation Organisation.

    The latest results show that the Rare Yellow-Striped Australian Moonbats are increasing in number, and are evolving to also have green and red stripes.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 11 at 10:24 AM • permalink

  59. #56 Texas Bob, I’m pretty sure we’ll have that problem to solve whether they actually have drinks or not. They’re dribbling idiots.

    The RWDBs will all have the finest beers available.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 11 at 10:27 AM • permalink

  60. Breaking: Fred Thompson announces he has lymphoma. The few commenters so far at Huff Post seem strangely angry.

    Posted by C.L. on 2007 04 11 at 10:28 AM • permalink

  61. I give up.  I really do.  Let bin Laden and his ilk have the frigging planet.  Let themn deal with these nuts. 

    I don’t care anymore. 

    I am Catholic but now fully want St. Peter’s to be a mosque in my lifetime.

    I want Charlie Sean to go on pilramage to Mecca.

    I want Sean Penn to speak truth to our new Islamist overlords.

    I want the radical Greens to take us back into the iron age.

    I do not care anymore.  I give up—I have lost all hope for the future.

    Posted by Room 237 on 2007 04 11 at 10:38 AM • permalink

  62. #61, all the more reason to fight.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 11 at 10:40 AM • permalink

  63. Ash—no, I give up.  I do.  I do not care any more.  I am just going to sip lots of Pino Grigio and watch the West sink into a cespool of choas.

    Posted by Room 237 on 2007 04 11 at 10:41 AM • permalink

  64. Room, you definitely shouldn’t give up. We need all the help we can get.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 11 at 10:45 AM • permalink

  65. I don’t know which one of you wrote this comment over there but my monitor is now covered in coffee!

    You too can have a stiffy as rigid as the ‘twin towers’ (which were demolished at the behest of JEWS.)  Email me for further details.
    Viagra | 04.11.07 - 8:58 pm |

    Posted by ekb87 on 2007 04 11 at 10:56 AM • permalink

  66. ekb87

    I didn’t, but I wish I had.

    Posted by Room 237 on 2007 04 11 at 10:58 AM • permalink

  67. The “head” of this group will probably be interviewed by Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow in 5..4..3..

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 04 11 at 11:28 AM • permalink

  68. Breaking: Fred Thompson announces he has lymphoma. The few commenters so far at Huff Post seem strangely angry.

    Yeesh.

    The one ranting about the treatment the Edwards got is a bit odd. For one thing, all I remember reading on conservative sites was best wishes and expressions of sympathy; admittedly I don’t go to many sites, but I didn’t hear of any wishing her ill.

    For another thing, that commenter is just odd. They need to get to a gym and take their frustrations out on a punching bag or something.

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 04 11 at 11:30 AM • permalink

  69. Damn shame you lads let them commies take your guns away…

    Posted by mojo on 2007 04 11 at 11:37 AM • permalink

  70. Few things:
    Cyclists also pay taxes (haven’t seen many welfare queen types riding around)

    If you’re not comfortable with mingling with cyclists, stay off the road yourself.

    I haven’t participated in a critical mass.

    Imagine this: you drive your car every day, but you are vastyle outnumbered by vehicles that weigh hundreds of times what your car does.  The drivers of these monsters make litle to no effort to see you, and frequently merge with you.  Also, the drivers enjoy swerving at you, blasting their horns or throwing trash.

    I believe this is the impetus behind the Critical Mass idea; become traffic, rather than a severe minority.  Sort of a monthly change in status quo.

    Some participants do stupid stuff, of course.  But try to defend EVERY car-driver.

    Cheers.

    Posted by SeanC on 2007 04 11 at 02:45 PM • permalink

  71. Ideas for the “Critical Mass” follies:

    1) Let the pack surround you, then slam on the brakes. See how many “massers” do a squashed-bug impression on your back window. Then sue their asses.

    2) Pedestrians should carry a walking stick. It comes in handy.

    And for my money, a cyclist going head-to-head with a 3000-lb auto is just plain stupid. A thousand cyclists doing so ia 1000 times as stupid. Think of it as “evolution in action.”

    Posted by mojo on 2007 04 11 at 03:13 PM • permalink

  72. Why are youn protesting globalist transvestites? How insensi… oh.

    Never mind.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 11 at 03:23 PM • permalink

  73. 3,000 lb car vs. cyclist?

    I’ve averaged about 600 miles a month on my bike.  I come in ‘contact’ with a lot of cars.  Typically they will make a right turn without looking to see if the bike lane has an occupant.

    I can almost always catch up to a honking, shouting driver at the next red light.  They usually apologize profusely when I roll up to their window, lean in real close and tell them to.  The average cycle commuter has quite a bit of muscle on the average fatass driver.

    The only time the driver got an attitude and tried to get out and challenge me, he got pushed right back down into his seat.

    Evolution in action? “Survival of the fittest” is more like it.
    Cheers!

    Posted by SeanC on 2007 04 11 at 03:34 PM • permalink

  74. #73. The only time the driver got an attitude and tried to get out and challenge me, he got pushed right back down into his seat.

    Spoken like a temporary citizen. Good luck.

    Posted by JAFA on 2007 04 11 at 04:07 PM • permalink

  75. Cyclists and motor cyclists do stupid things on the road. Cyclists: just being there - you do not belong there any more than horses, whatever the law allows!
    The motorcycling variety: weave in and out of lanes of traffic, overtake on the shoulder, insist on going faster then the rest and sneak up into your blind spot pretty quickly ... then they complain about not being seen.
    So, adding intimidation of a driver who failed to see you is not going to get you a medal.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 04 11 at 04:49 PM • permalink

  76. #52
    Oz converted from Imperial ounces (1/16 Imperial pound) to metric grammes in the early ‘70s.

    Acknowledge your usage of the legacy Troy ounce for precious metals, but this creates confusion for those of us who have dealt with the more widely used Imperial ounce that was used for e.g. cooking measures, body weight, etc.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 11 at 05:01 PM • permalink

  77. #75
    Hear! Hear!
    Having particpated in all above pursuits, the term “temporary Australian” applies to ‘two wheels’ modes, with a death rate 8 times that of ‘four wheels’.
    1+ tonne of car is indeed a critical mass.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 11 at 05:10 PM • permalink

  78. 75:
    So, claiming that a cyclist does not belong there comes from what reasoning?

    What if I claimed that cars do not belong there?  We’d be at an impasse!  Albeit a logically bankrupt one.

    The driver in question did not “fail to see me”.  He swerved partially into my bike lane and leaned on his horn.  This is dangerous and intentional.  He was laughing through a big stupid grin as he did it.  This is not uncommon.

    What he didn’t expect was for me to catch up to him.  After I told him to apologize, he decided to threaten me and started to get out of his car.  I didn’t let him.

    You side with him?

    I’m just saying people, bikes have a perfectly legal right to the road, as do you.  Claiming otherwise is ridiculous.  If you don’t like it, build your own roads, and don’t tax cyclists to do it.

    As for me, I enjoy the fresh air, the exercise and the fact that I can buzz along quite a bit faster than most cars, unless I’m going more than a few miles.

    Posted by SeanC on 2007 04 11 at 05:25 PM • permalink

  79. I have to negotiate roads, and many cyclists, near a large university every day.

    I hate cyclists. Most of them are clueless about road rules (students usually), many seem to push their god-given right to use the road; and don’t seem to realise that sometimes, no matter how careful or aware a car driver is A CYCLIST CANNOT BE SEEN CLEARLY.

    Being held up by cyclists that weave all over the road, oblivious to any other vehicles on the road; fools who don’t indicate where they wish to go at roundabouts and intersections.

    Is it any wonder I hate cyclists?

    Growing up in Sydney it was a requirement that you have a bell, a rear view mirror and functional brakes on your pushbike, before helmet laws came in. You were taught the road rules at school. Having nearly run over a child riding a bike full pelt across a pedestrian crossing (fortunately I saw the child and I was able to stop) I wonder if they are being taught the road rules any more.

    Motorcyclists can be just as bad.

    Posted by kae on 2007 04 11 at 06:01 PM • permalink

  80. #78- Sorry to burst your self-important bubble old sport, but vehicle registration, fuel excise and CTP levies pay for roads, and un-used bikeways, not consolidated revenue. In fact a fair bit of the dosh extorted from motorists finds its way back into the grubby paws of state and federal governments, who piss it up assorted ropes.

    Bicycles have about as much place in a modern, high-speed society as camel caravans and the atavists who pilot them- OK for kiddies too small to see over a dashboard, but the minute Gottlieb Daimler managed to get a fuel/air mix to controlled detonate in a confined space they were effectively obsolete.

    And any bicycle nazi who threatens me in traffic is likely to find his lycra-clad arse on the bitumen, shortly after to find my DM clad foot inserted in same.

    Grow up.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 04 11 at 07:16 PM • permalink

  81. And BTW, I ride motorcycles, but ones big enough to write off a car and loud enough to attract the attention of the most ossified coffin-dodger or Hillman Minx full of White Leghorns. I also move to the front of traffic at lights and take off like a cut cat as soon as the light changes so no cage-bound cretin is near enough to do any damage. Bicycles are incapable of any of this, and are a mobile roadblock, particularly the arrogant lycra-clad fuckheads who ride two abreast or more and see it as their duty to hold up traffic and illustrate their moral superiority and enviro-cred. They will wind up with a lower carbon footprint when they’re subjected to an inevitable rubber tyreprint.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 04 11 at 07:22 PM • permalink

  82. SeanC, Dude.  This argument was settled with this definitive piece of scholarship

    Posted by Big Jim on 2007 04 11 at 07:26 PM • permalink

  83. #80:
    Perhaps where you come from revenues are kept entirely seperate and never co-mingle with their fellow dollar bills to evenly be distributed exactly how they should be..

    But I live in the US.  It’s not the case at all.  And no, I don’t wear spandex.  The fact that cars were developed after the bicycle does nothing to prove it made the bike obsolete.  Airplanes were developed after the auto, they are faster and they DON’T NEED ROADS.  Clearly your outdated automobile is obsolete!  But honestly, in the city, the bike is about the perfect mode of transport.  Nearly bulletproof, never needs a fill up and much quicker from point A to B.  Plus, parking is free.

    #82:
    As much as I am a devotee of Mr. O’Rourke (I own nearly all of his works), I don’t necessarily take 100% of his word as gospel.

    Cheers!
    And on a lighter note:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saHs6J0OXVI
    Brilliant!

    Posted by SeanC on 2007 04 11 at 07:40 PM • permalink

  84. I think it’s time that pushbike riders had to get some sort of license, if only to prove they have some knowledge of the road rules and in particular rules for bicycle riders.

    Rule 1. Don’t push your luck with a car. No matter whether you are in the right, have right of way, or what. If things go badly you will come out second best. Busted bones lose against right of way (or god-given right).

    Rule 2. Not every car driver can see you. You are a tiny flash hidden behind the door pillar. Remember that and ride accordingly.

    Posted by kae on 2007 04 11 at 07:41 PM • permalink

  85. #80
    Well put.

    The future of the “safety bicycle” on the public right-of-carriage-way, unregistered and untaxed, is of consternation to many a motorist: excessive lobbying from this group could backfire.

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 04 11 at 07:42 PM • permalink

  86. Nearly bulletproof

    A pushbike? OK, maybe. But not stupidity or impact proof.

    Posted by kae on 2007 04 11 at 07:52 PM • permalink

  87. We Are Calling For Heroes Willing to Stand up against Big Brother!

    A revolt against uniform rules of capitalization!

    Become a hero by standing up against Big Brother : show up, mill around for a while, get out the rhyming dictionary to convince the masses, shout slogans out of unison, and then go home. If only Spider-man knew it could be so simple.

    Although they do have to try to remember that internationalist=good but globalist=bad.

    Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 04 11 at 08:07 PM • permalink

  88. FACT - If this was a giant conspiracy the makers of Loose Change would all be dead by now.  If only.

    FACT - The Australian Truther movement will be made up of some of the dumbest, most gullible members of our community.  It follows that they will be mostly arts students and socialists.

    FACT - Trutherism will be popular amongst cross eyed bong smoking arts students for many years to come.

    FACT - You can easily melt enough socialists with jet fuel to make up half the IQ of the average person (roughly 50).  But would it be enough to make tower 7 collapse?  And why did the entire population of radical cyber feminists not turn up to work on that day? You decide…

    Posted by bondo on 2007 04 11 at 08:43 PM • permalink

  89. SeanC as a rule I am all for cyclists sharing the road that is designed & maintained for cars but I have met my fair share of shithead bike riders on the road & I think if any of them had tried to make a steroid inflicted attempt to lean in my window & order me to apologise for their transgressions, whilst trying block me from exiting my own vehicle… all bets would be off.

    Posted by stahlblume on 2007 04 12 at 01:15 AM • permalink

  90. #89:
    I’d feel the same way.  But that’s not at all what happened.  Thee car driving guy nearly hit me intentionally.

    If, say a tractor trailer driver intentionally ran your car off of the road, and you had an opportunity to speak a few words to him, would you not take that chance to ask for an apology?  Especially if you were bigger than him?

    For the record, I got my apology.

    There are shitty cyclists just as there are shitty drivers.  The difference is that a shitty cyclist at worst will kill your dachshund or bloody your grill.

    Cheers!

    Posted by SeanC on 2007 04 12 at 02:56 AM • permalink

  91. Just a reminder to everyone that, as promised, you will be well compensated for disrupting this truther chat room with your comments. Be sure to send your invoices to:

    Global Tyranny Inc
    c/o the Big Computer That Controls the Internet
    Texas USA 66666

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 12 at 02:59 AM • permalink

  92. So did both of those inbreeders from 911oz show up and claim their Truthout a rollicking success with a crowd Guardianesk proportions?

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 12 at 03:23 AM • permalink

  93. #23 No proof is offered, mind you, but in the world of the conspiracy nut the absence of proof (or logic or reason) can never get in the way of a truly lunatic story.

    You’re obviously not up on your conspiracy theory. The fact that there’s no evidence is proof that it’s a conspiracy. CAN’T YOU SEE THAT???

    Posted by CraigC on 2007 04 12 at 03:27 AM • permalink

  94. Thank you for the memo MM. It was news to me that I was being paid to disrupt the chat room. How much can I expect? PACO Industries is sending past due notices, and I’m getting nervous.

    Posted by dean martin on 2007 04 12 at 03:29 AM • permalink

  95. #90
    The difference is that a shitty cyclist at worst will kill your dachshund or bloody your grill.

    Let me tell you something true SeanC.

    If any shitty cyclist killed my dachshund he would be shitting through a rubber tube inserted down his oesophagus while using his bike as a built-in wheelchair for the rest of what was left of his truly miserable life.

    Posted by geoff on 2007 04 12 at 04:08 AM • permalink

  96. There are shitty cyclists just as there are shitty drivers.  The difference is that a shitty cyclist at worst will kill your dachshund or bloody your grill.

    Or kill him/herself, putting the car driver on a guilt trip.

    Oh, there have been pedestrian deaths recorded in bicycle accidents, too.

    Posted by kae on 2007 04 12 at 06:02 AM • permalink

  97. #96:
    Are you really even thinking about the chances of someone on a bike killing someone else?

    I hope for your sake you never leave the house, as your extreme paranoia will prevent you from walking beneath a tree or a cloud or an ultraviolet ray.

    Posted by SeanC on 2007 04 12 at 11:37 AM • permalink

  98. #90 nah I wouldn’t be asking for an apology but my missus always says that socially I’m a klutz. Curse them, fight them, damage their property even, or perhaps even slaughter them & all their blood relations & dance on their graves. But apologies don’t work for deliberate things I reckon.

    I feel worse about them being smaller actually. I’m not small; I’m not huge. I won’t let anyone else use their size as a lever over me even if it means I end up copping it. But then I don’t deliberately try to run any road user off the road either.

    Posted by stahlblume on 2007 04 12 at 11:44 AM • permalink

  99. #97
    SeanC

    #96: Are you really even thinking about the chances of someone on a bike killing someone else?

    I hope for your sake you never leave the house, as your extreme paranoia will prevent you from walking beneath a tree or a cloud or an ultraviolet ray.


    No, I’m not paranoid about being hit by a bike as a pedestrian, or any of the other rubbish you’ve mentioned.

    Now I know you are an idiot. Especially with your comment that pushbikes are bulletproof - they aren’t called “deadly-treadly” for nothing.

    Fact: pedestrians have been killed by pushbike riders - not sure how many pushbike riders have been killed by pedestrians, but it’s tempting with the number of fuckwits who ride bikes.

    Posted by kae on 2007 04 12 at 06:00 PM • permalink

  100. And SeanC, I pointed out pedestrian death because that’s a tad worse than running over a pet.

    Posted by kae on 2007 04 12 at 06:02 PM • permalink

  101. Just anther bunch of POMO’S ( anti-realist foundation of postmodernism)

    Posted by Howzat on 2007 04 12 at 07:17 PM • permalink

  102. Dammit, they are onto us about the Iraqi Parliament job already. This is a freakin’ nightmare. What do I tell Darlene at GT?

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 12 at 08:26 PM • permalink

  103. #98:
    Cheers to you then for not running cyclists off the road.

    #99:
    The bike itself is bulletproof.  Nearly never needs a fix, and if it does, a few spanners do the trick.  The rider on the other hand is another matter.  And of course people’ve been killed by cyclists.  As they have been by toe-nail clippers and lint rollers.  It just happens about 1 million times less frequently than with one of your current choice of transportation.

    Blimey.  Surprised at the closed-mindedness here.  Oh well.

    Posted by SeanC on 2007 04 12 at 08:33 PM • permalink

  104. “Blimey.  Surprised at the closed-mindedness here.”

    Car-hating greenie nerds at cycling forums, bike-hating insecure meatheads here. Dontya just love self-righteous evangelists of all kinds?

    Posted by Tex on 2007 04 13 at 01:27 AM • permalink

  105. 104:
    ‘cept I don’t hate cars.  I only suggested that they have no more claim to the roads than bikers.

    Reason is definitely beyond some, even here.

    Posted by SeanC on 2007 04 13 at 03:11 AM • permalink

  106. Cars have no more claim to the roads than bikers? So much for logic.
    My point that bikes are incompatible with motorists is illustrated by the latest Sydney Ringroad (the M7) having a separate cycle path.
    The more advanced planning of cities like Canberra had already incorporated this thinking twenty years ago.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 04 13 at 06:45 AM • permalink

  107. An excellent article by Bill Whittle on the subject

    Posted by Mike_W on 2007 04 13 at 04:13 PM • permalink

  108. #107 Good link, thanks Mike

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 14 at 01:37 AM • permalink

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