Camel juice, do you think?

Bronwyn can't be allowed to have the last word in this thread. She just can't!

By way of compensation for depriving her of the honour, however, I do bring her some good news. Earlier in this thread Bronwyn, in a post in which she was questioning whether daggett's '9/11 Truth' topic had persuaded anyone on OLO to change their views with respect to the nature of that event, said, here: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2479#56066

"I don't want to do a whole lot of reading on it right at the moment, nor do I want to highjack examinator's thread, but if there's ever another discussion on it I will get involved and follow the arguments more closely."

More specifically she also said, in a subsequent post, here: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2479#56088 , that:

"I'm totally intrigued now. Just wish I had super skim reading powers to get through all the evidence! It would be far too daunting to start from scratch at a 459-post thread, and no doubt numerous links, so I won't be doing that."

Too right she won't.

As at 8:00 AM on Sun 15 February 2009, the topic '9/11 Truth', which was still actively being posted to and certainly not in 'flame' mode, had disappeared from the OLO boards entirely! I for one had been regularly viewing, and occasionally posting to it. The entire thread gone! All the links that had been posted with it, gone! What was the problem? All the links, and some of the discussion making scepticism as to the official story too easy, or perhaps even respectable? One wonders.

Just in case I had somehow transgressed the OLO rules (for I had recently posted to both threads) I checked my email. No rebuke from GrahamY or SusanP. I am at a loss to understand. Has the OLO site been hacked, or have displeased government interests exercised 'editorial control' over 'unwanted content'?

Dayyum! May they all have to drink camel juice.

I missed a couple of beats after I read that.

I sure hope that Forrest Gumpp only imagined that the "9/11 Truth" forum had disappeared.

If Forrest definitely did not imagine that it had gone, at least it is now thankfully back at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2166&page=78, http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?iscussion=2166&page=77, ... or (if you want all 459 posts totalling 536K) http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2166&page=0

It's still there, Forrest, warts and all. You have to reset your preferences in the General Discussion forum to "Show 10 discussions per category, having been started One year back".

It's somewhat annoying that we can't save those preferences from one session to the next.

Yes, it was all a terrible mistake. I had already pressed the 'recommend this comment for deletion' button on that post, in the hope that it might disappear before it attracted any comment, or indeed many views. If it does disappear, be aware that it was at my own request, and be not alarmed.

What happened was that, contrary to my usual habit whereby I click 'last post' in the General Discussion area of the Forum and subsequently move to the Articles area with that preference automatically transferring to the Articles board display, I went first to the Articles and clicked 'last post'. Just as I did so, as a result of one of those annoying jumps the content of the page makes (presumably as the ads load up and display) it appears that the click registered on one of the ads, which opened in a new tab.

I promptly closed the tab, and Firefox took me back to the Articles board, which appeared to be displaying in last post order. When I clicked back to move to the General Discussion area, I assumed the preference would transfer automatically. Either it didn't, or I hadn't truly had a 'last post' order display when I thought I had.

The page had earlier jumped. At the point of having moved to the General Discussion board, which I *knew* to be in last post order, I jumped - to a conclusion that those two long-running threads had been taken down in their entirety. That could have only been the work of Steven Conroy, of Conroy's Gap, that nasty internet-censoring chap! Or so I thought.

It would almost have been better if there had been some hacking or censorship. That was an otherwise good post, even if I do say so myself - what a pity it was about a non-event. At least it displaced Bronwyn from the 'last word' position at the tail of this latterly uselessly extended thread.

My apologies to GrahamY for besmirching the reputation of OLO by implying any censorship.

But 'sticky' preferences would be good.

Forrest Gumpp,

Well done. I wish I had your skills.

*That could have only been the work of Steven Conroy, of Conroy's Gap, that nasty internet-censoring chap! Or so I thought.*

Umm, I am just wondering what happend to forty years of information on the AMIEU site.

Reckon that Nasty listen inernet censoring chap might have that also.

Well one of them at least. How do you loose forty years on work any other way.

Just as well we have a copy for the Australian Public to read. I must get busy and promote it.