chainsmoker,

I agree wholeheartedly with your comments on the inadequacies of left/right labelling. I got the impression - I could be wrong - that these crude labels have been used less frequently on OLO in recent months; though it's hard for some to break an intellectual habit that is so entrenched.

So this is what is on the minds of the big brains these days .. dissappointing to say the least.

This is Grade 1 or 2 stuff isn't it, little petty ambushes, then a round of "but he said, she said"?

Hope you all feel better now.

Spikey and Chainsmoker you must appreciate that the left is at a disadvantage when it comes to the war of words between the left and right. For the left find themselves in a position that since whatever is left is automatically right they are by definition not left but right.

“Blairbar, put your glasses on. BAYGON is John Tons. A quick search of Google shows who he is.
Likewise you can also find about 1300 references to me if you care to look”.
Well VK3AUU to find out whom a contributor is one has to do a Google Search? How convenient and fruitful is that? Wouldn’t it be easier and more respectful to identify oneself at the outset? I always thought Baygon was an insecticide and the article commencing “I avoided saying" has no reference to John Tons at all. A check on recent Baygon’s postings on “Online Opinion” shows this to be the case also. And a quick search of Google definitely does not reveal his identity.
And as for David Tanner well I didn’t find 1300 references to you at all. I managed 49 hits for VK3AUU of which a handful identified you as David Tanner.I was a bit frightened for a while as I thought it was David Banner. And I certainly wouldn’t like to make you angry. But my point stands; if you wish to criticise real people don’t hide behind a pseudonym. I now know who Spikey is too, So we have BAYGON-John Tons, VK3AUU-David Tanner and Spikey-Elizabeth Moore. Keep ‘em coming.
Blair Bartholomew

dovif2: << CJ Morgan say "Australia's appalling history of race relations."

I guess it depends on what you compare us to. >>

Yeah, we're right up there with the best of them - but some people would rather pretend that it didn't happen.

Poor Grahman Young. The “human tic” is back. It seems that it's a once a Year thing. Just after New Year, Tim Lambert shows up at ONO and has a go at ONO and Graham.

What Lambert won't tell you, Graham is that he's punked all the time.

Ian Gould, "Dr. Sharon Gould's" sibling posted a comment at Lambert's site that appears to be every bit as a hoax , Dr. Sharon Gould (aka Katherine Wilson).

<i>Lance, here’s a description of the key characteristics of the “Right Wing authoritarian” personality type. “Right Wing Authoritarian” is just a more polite term for “fascist” - and results on the RWA test correlate well with the earlier f-scale test which was based on studies of people who had in fact been in Fascist parties prior to 1945.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=right+wing+authoritarian&go=Go
“According to research by Altemeyer, right-wing authoritarians tend to exhibit cognitive errors and symptoms of faulty reasoning. Specifically, they are more likely to make incorrect inferences from evidence and to hold contradictory ideas that result from compartmentalized thinking. They are also more likely to uncritically accept insufficient evidence that supports their beliefs, and they are less likely to acknowledge their own limitations.”
More fundamentally, the underlying belief system of the RWA (and the fascist) is that they are part of a group which is both morally superior to others and unjustly oppressed by them.
When you advance your claims that AGW is a conspiracy of the liberal elite against American free market capitalism’s inevitable and glorious march to world domination you display both the characteristic logical errors of the Neo-fascist (or the Right wing Authoritarian if you prefer) and the underlying paranoid and conspiratorial mindset</i>

Now normally the tic, Tim, would dis-envowel anything that appears remotely silly (to him of course) as he has a pretty strict comments policy. Tim adopted his comments policy from Basil Faulty and recently changed his name to Tim Faulty-Lambert in deference to Basil Faulty and his people skills..