tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post6554282542966500752..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Martin McKee Just Doesn't Get This Liberty ThingDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-47719952238778344822014-10-12T02:56:30.555+01:002014-10-12T02:56:30.555+01:00"Your words are taken out of context and twis..."Your words are taken out of context and twisted. You are insulted and abused on Twitter."<br /><br /><br />Bubblegum's problem is that his words are taken in context then he gets insulted and abused on Twitter because he's a cockwomble of the highest order. You'd think he'd be happy he'd at least reached the pinnacle in one field!Rob Heyesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-11586008590670146832014-10-10T15:59:05.764+01:002014-10-10T15:59:05.764+01:00What is more dangerous than travelling our roads e...What is more dangerous than travelling our roads every day? The bad condition of most roads don't help but whether you are a driver, a motor cyclist, a cyclist or a pedestrian you risk your life each time you leave home!<br /><br />The govt have only just acknowledgex the high risk of driving on country lanes! Seeing as most of them display a national speed limit sign it has taken them a bloody long time to realise that a single track, twisty road is dangerous! Yet they do not believe they are out of touch!<br /><br />Thank God we now have at least one UKIP MP and hopefully we will get many more.truckerlynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-33670057468445311152014-10-10T12:35:40.895+01:002014-10-10T12:35:40.895+01:00Here in Vancouver, skiing is seen as a healthy pur...Here in Vancouver, skiing is seen as a healthy pursuit. It seems to me to be a very high risk of injury or death for fleeting pleasure - just ask Liam Neeson - yet, when one climbs to the top of Grouse Mountain, one is presented with a kerosene torch and a sign saying 'No Smoking'.Antipholus Pappsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-8197630770264801522014-10-10T03:36:27.683+01:002014-10-10T03:36:27.683+01:00"the opportunity for those seeking to undermi..."the opportunity for those seeking to undermine public health to undermine you"<br /><br /><br />My, my, we seem to have made an impression. Marita Hefler, one of Chapman's Aussie minions, did a study about two years ago on the dangers of the "social media" to the Antis. I emailed her to ask for a copy and she said she'd be happy to send me one, while also asking a bit about me. <br /><br /><br />Well, as always, I replied honestly when asked... and she promptly stopped answering my emails. After a few more attempts I finally got a rather archly worded note about how she had "no desire" to be helpful to me in my work. <br /><br /><br />So much for science, eh?<br /><br /><br />- MJMMichael J. McFaddenhttp://bit.ly/TobakkoNachtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-66159954199059912392014-10-10T00:53:36.853+01:002014-10-10T00:53:36.853+01:00McKee is an intellectually challenged authoritaria...McKee is an intellectually challenged authoritarian The fact that we continue to be forced to pay for parasites such as he beggars belief. He is a failed medic who has profited from a lazy decadent society.Ivan Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-81760540188357753922014-10-09T22:37:28.981+01:002014-10-09T22:37:28.981+01:00Indeed.
Talking of not boding well, this was my s...Indeed.<br /><br />Talking of not boding well, this was my stand-out favourite part of his article.<br /><br /><i>"Some are clearly extreme libertarians, opposed to any role for the state and, especially, anything that gets in the way of the right of informed adults to engage in activities that are likely to kill them prematurely"</i><br /><br /><br /><br />Surely, as long as adults are informed, they should be allowed to engage in whatever legal behaviour they choose in a free country, whether it is risky or not? Only amongst control freaks and fascists is this even vaguely contested. <br /><br /><br />It shows how debased our country has become that people who hold such extremist views as that from McKee are considered respectable by government. Perhaps that's why voter turnouts are so pathetic these days, I dunno. ;)Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-47506976445015653992014-10-09T21:53:13.913+01:002014-10-09T21:53:13.913+01:00Yes, seen that in dozens of places already, it'...Yes, seen that in dozens of places already, it's made Aussie anti-smokers even more of a global laughing stock. Glorious! :)Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-43246876357710790292014-10-09T19:59:31.784+01:002014-10-09T19:59:31.784+01:00My dear Dick
You will love this one. It is very s...My dear Dick<br /><br />You will love this one. It is very short:<br /><br />http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/opera-company-refuses-perform-carmen-due-concerns-about-smoking_810830.htmlJeff Woodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-29830940508798454422014-10-09T19:23:05.788+01:002014-10-09T19:23:05.788+01:00Yes, this is the very essence of freedom of speech...<i>Yes, this is the very essence of freedom of speech Martin. You and your pals have the freedom to pump out your nonsensical garbage<br /> and promote it on social media, and those who disagree have the same <br />freedom to object to it via the same medium. It's how freedom of speech <br />works, it's a two way mechanism, d'you see?</i><br /><br />Ha! Nail squarely on head there, DP. But that's how they work, isn't it? I was reading earlier the 2010 F2C survey of under 25s on the smoking ban, and thought to myself at the time that I'd guess it would have been roundly ignored and discredited because F2C is an organisation that speaks out for smoker's rights. 'Big Tobacco shills' will no doubt have been the cry. And yet any survey commissioned by the avowedly anti-tobacco mob is considered to be just dandy, no bias at all, nooo.<br /><br />It strikes a mixture of fear and incredulity in me that our legislators are so naive as to be taken in by all this crap when all they need to do is a little research combined with a modicum of critical thinking to see the realities of the situation. But they don't. They swallow it all, hook, line and sinker.<br /><br />It doesn't bode wellnisakimannoreply@blogger.com