I shall again be running the bar – the Whistleblower’s Arms – at the Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival from 22 to 24 August at Cardross, Port of Menteith.
I find this festival, which is very much a lifestyle event and features mostly new talent, an extremely life-affirming experience. Last year it brought me back from a very dark place. Some of this blogs most active commenters and helpers have been among the volunteers over the last couple of years, keeping the event going. Personally for me the festival is necessarily centred around Williams Bros and Thistly Cross, but there is a tremendous variety of music:
The event is very family friendly, and also an amazing place to meet new friends. It does not have any specific political orientation, but I might fairly say that the vibe is very much in line with the kind of unconstrained intellectual space promoted on this blog. On top of which Cardross is an extraordinarily beautiful place. The variety of local food on site, ranging from vegan to game, is one of the things I really enjoyed. It is a not for profit event and nobody gets a salary.
Tickets are not expensive by festival standards, and certainly cheaper than a weekend break in a hotel. But there is also the alternative of working your passage – the festival still needs plenty of volunteers.
I am genuinely looking forward to it enormously. Hope to see you there.
Beware, there’s a new disease. Are you infected? Do you know someone who is? Robert Fisk describes a full-page advertisement in the [Canadian] National Post, titled “Almost 4 million Canadians are afflicted by this disease.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/robert-fisk-how-on-earth-can-israel-tolerate-this-filth-from-bnai-brith-canada-9571043.html
He/she can still count or perhaps he/she has learnt to ‘find’! Truly pathetic. Never tells us anything of course.
41 pieces of information from me over 3 days pro rata does not seem particularly excessive.
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Fraser, good to hear that the Cider will lure you up there?
@ Clark, I’m sure there will be an electronic habbagate installed at DTRH.
Mark Regev is a fascist Goebbels who would paint Treblinka green to sell it as a Yad Vashem. I’m deliberately ignoring his tedious rants.
“41 pieces of information from me over 3 days pro rata does not seem particularly excessive.”
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I like the “not PARTiCULARLY excessiven I really do! 🙂 Could we just agree on “excessive”, then?
I make that about 13 pieces of “information” a day, ie about 1 per hour. Like I said, “all day”.
No wonder Ba’al Soup has Habba-breaked you! And you should Habba-break him!
Another person here who displays his childishness for all to see.
https://twitter.com/jonsnowC4/status/486184432139632640
Have to agree with the poster earlier, about the Festival entry costs. I was genuinely shocked, flabbergasted, obviously the exclusivity of the event, the high barrier, should keep the riff-raff out and attract the ‘right’ sorts. A Tory boy beano. To a person on JSA or ESA finding the funds to attend something like this is simply beyond the bounds of imagination or possibility. Social isolation, existing outside, excluded from their local and the greater community, is a major component of poverty’s consequences from which even if their financial situation were fortuitously miraculously improved, the harm can hardly be undone.
“Anthony Julius is a prominent British lawyer and academic, best known for his actions on behalf of academic Nazi hunter Deborah Lipstadt. It was Julius who perpetrated the destruction of history revisionist David Irving’s career.”
Perhaps the poster might wish to say whether this is a good or bad think given she doesn’t want to be accused of conflating anti Zionism with anti Semitism.
Is that think or thing? 🙂
PS That was a quote btw. I did not write it or say it. Gilad Atzmon did. I expect you have heard of him. He is described as one of those self hating Jews.
I have been re-reading Alice. It’s quite psychedelic.
CHAPTER I
Down the Rabbit-Hole
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-I.html
Has anyone ever read The Annotated Alice? I have a copy somewhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annotated_Alice
“PS That was a quote btw. I did not write it or say it. Gilad Atzmon did.”
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Glad to see that the standard Mary ruse is still alive and well.
“It wasn’t me wot said it gov, it woz that bloke over there!”
Anyway, whoever wrote it, and since you quote it – answer Resident Dissident’s question: are you glad or unhappy that Julius destroyed Irving’s career?
Just been looking at some crowd fund raising for a project. Found a couple of things of interest.
There’s quite a bit going on for the Scottish independence Yes campaign. Nothing much going on for the No campaign. I guess they get their funds elsewhere.
The most bizarre is crowd funding war. Really. You can apparently pay for bullets to be fired in Ukraine. It’s a mad mad world.
And a question to you, Resident Dissident : what is your opinion on California Ben’s thought as expressed on Squonk, namely that
“I see blogs as a vent for frustration; a kind of release which when kept inside is sometimes toxic to ourselves.” ?
You may answer with specific reference to any poster that comes to mind. Or not.
Phil
“The most bizarre is crowd funding war. Really. You can apparently pay for bullets to be fired in Ukraine.”
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Please tell me more, at first sight I find this a laudable initiative and may wish to contribute. Thanks.
This drawer had too many rusty, blunt knives in it.
So welcome back, Macky!
PS – Dreoilin sends you her regards as well.
Tony M
“Social isolation, existing outside, excluded from their local and the greater community, is a major component of poverty’s consequences from which even if their financial situation were fortuitously miraculously improved, the harm can hardly be undone.”
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The “the harm can hardly be undone” seems a trifle melodramatic.
What is your basis for saying that and is it a view shared widely by professionals?
NebelMind
“Mark Regev is a fascist Goebbels who would paint Treblinka green to sell it as a Yad Vashem. I’m deliberately ignoring his tedious rants.”
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“fascist Goebbels” – ah, the pitfalls of tautilogy!
Whereas it is true that there were many – indeed millions – of fascists who were not Goebbels, were there any contemporary Goebbels who were not fascist?
Glad for any insight here, Nebel.
or even tautology 🙂
Many observations, comments, reactions and witticisms are classified as “puerile” or “juvenile” by Mary – until, that is, she decides to deploy them herself.
(That was a very adult observation).
“PS That was a quote btw. I did not write it or say it.”
But you did select it – from all the other things you might have chosen. Why was that?
Were you venting your frustration?
BTW Hope you noticed how welcoming the good people of Yorkshire were to your cycling friends – they even found them a few hills. Is cycling becoming the people’s sport?
“Were you venting your frustration?”
That’s a good question for your own self. Got ‘blockage’? I certainly feel your aggravation as you fail to get a foothold here. Or maybe that’s what turns your crank.
Habbabreak! You know it makes sense
You will make him cross getting that spot Afrend and we will probably have to call Sofia out.
Funny how they arrive in pairs from nowhere after a longish gap.
The coincidence is even more ‘funny’ since you disclosed reading about them in ‘Alice..’ Mary
Tweedledum and Tweedldee.
I knew I could find them on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksnloU_LXyU
Resident Dissident (7 Jul, 2014 – 8:29 pm) asks whether it was a good or bad thing that David Irving’s career was destroyed. I’ll answer that. It was a bad thing. It was a very bad thing.
Until he questioned aspects of the holocaust, he was a well-respected historian and regarded as an expert in the military and political history of World War II, and a specialist on Nazi Germany. Nobody questions the sincerity of his views. So why should an academic be persecuted for expressing his honestly-held opinion on a subject he is well qualified to discuss? Whether you agree or disagree with his views isn’t the point.
His views are not racist. They do not incite violence. Why should he not be allowed to express them?
What about you, Resident Dissident? Do you think it is a good thing when a person’s life is destroyed for disagreeing with the mainstream view. Can you cite any other example where a person’s honest disagreement on the interpretation of facts has been punished so harshly?
A Node; Once you asked me not to interfere with the thread of a conversation. Now I’m asking you for a return of that favor.
Your serious question is made to an unserious person.
For the same reason that a comedian is hounded and persecuted for an “inverse” (bizarre ain’t got a look in) nazi salute! For the same reason of forcing the closure of theatres to stop his sell out shows, and taking him to court. Accompanied with the usual medjia persecution to fanfare of nazi are back to invade the world (the other half which has not been invaded by the Muslim hoards).
The extent of pernicious power is to a degree that no one dares to talk about it, and it is best to self censor and only hints at it are allowed.
Yes, Fedup, I’ve already crossed swords with Resident Dissident over Dieudonne. As I remember, I asked him which he thought was more important – that Dieudonne was speaking the truth when he claimed his country was controlled by Zionists or that his message might be claimed to be antisemitic. You can guess his answer. In fairness, he did concede during that same conversation that some people might sometimes use accusations of antisemitism to stifle legitimate debate.
However, I believe the case of David Irving is even more clear-cut. It’s a simple matter of freedom of speech, and I’m interested to see whether RD is a free-speech denier.
Ben,
Yes, I politely requested that that you don’t join in when I am engaged in a one-to-one with another poster. I often find your contributions confusing and on more than one occasion, you’ve let my opponent off the hook by providing a distraction. Frankly, I don’t know what to make of you, Ben. You often post interesting and useful stuff, but sometimes your language is so cryptic that I think it risks making the blog a laughing stock.
This comment of yours to which I am replying (7 Jul, 2014 – 10:49 pm) is a case in point. I don’t understand it. Are you really asking me not to interfere in your conversation with RD, or are you joking? You don’t seem to be having a conversation with him – yes, you’re mocking him, fair enough, that’s your business, but I can’t see a conversation. I guess you’re joking, but in that case you’re doing just what I asked you not to do.
I don’t think you mean any harm, and I think we’re on the same side, so let’s just agree that our writing styles are incompatible and do our own thing our own way. A mutual non-confusion pact.
Ditto; A Node. I find your contributions vague and inane, almost a cry for help. YIt’s not truly a hardship to avoid your conversations, but I thought you might have the courtesy to reciprocate on my ‘favor’ to you, as you clearly deemed. Perhaps if you find my comments cryptic you could get a decoder ring from the cerealbox you derive your platitudes from.