<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472</id><updated>2011-06-23T12:04:50.457-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fight Fire With Sapphire!</title><subtitle type='html'>The wisdom of Derek Sapphire,
healer, activist and guru</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>40</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-111483086142477796</id><published>2005-04-29T20:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-04-29T20:14:21.426-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Fellow travellers, please don't think that I have ceased offering my wisdom online.  I did have a long hiatus, but I have resumed blogging here.Update your bookmarks.  And we can continue waging peace against the Great McSatan together!</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/111483086142477796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=111483086142477796' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/111483086142477796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/111483086142477796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2005/04/fellow-travellers-please-dont-think.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106851789485349737</id><published>2003-11-10T18:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-11-10T18:31:59.170-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Right-winger Matt Hayden links to a vicious attack on the ABC miniseries Marking Time by the appallingly named Wogblogger.  They really are being most unfair.  I saw it, and found it deeply, deeply moving.  I kept thinking, this is just so accurate!  So accurate, I could have written it myself.  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106851789485349737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106851789485349737' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106851789485349737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106851789485349737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/11/right-winger-matt-hayden-links-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106844176406283090</id><published>2003-11-09T21:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-11-09T21:23:07.216-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Here's yet another reason we should have obeyed Mother Nature's wishes, and never developed nuclear power.  (And, incidentally, why we should never have responded to that brave act by those maginificent 19 freedom fighters with the appallingly named "War on Terror".)</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106844176406283090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106844176406283090' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106844176406283090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106844176406283090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/11/heres-yet-another-reason-we-should.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106835403020155566</id><published>2003-11-08T21:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-11-08T21:00:52.263-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Fellow travellers, I have been away from blogging for a while.  But various events have kept me from the keyboard.  The most recent of these was the freeing of Pauline Hanson - a truly terrible event.  Is there no justice in this country?  My feminist cat Jocelyn and I were devastated.  We had been praying for her to die in prison (and I mean that in a life-affirming way) so the news sent us </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106835403020155566/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106835403020155566' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106835403020155566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106835403020155566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/11/fellow-travellers-i-have-been-away.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106643380634451936</id><published>2003-10-17T16:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-10-17T16:38:12.520-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The appalling Matt Hayden has broken into my Blogger account yet again!  He's attempting to earn money from a pay-per-click search engine.  He's also placed a permalink down below.  How pathetic!  Oh well, if he wants to earn a measly few dollars off my efforts, then let him.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106643380634451936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106643380634451936' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106643380634451936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106643380634451936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/10/appalling-matt-hayden-has-broken-into.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106613204698620378</id><published>2003-10-14T04:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-10-14T04:47:26.506-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>For all the right-wingers who don't believe that the Great McSatan is determined to colonise our country (and when I say "our" country, I don't mean just anglos; of course I inlcude all the little black people who are the real custodians of the land) then have a look here, especially at the URL.  They say the initials are for "Connect Infobahn Australia", but we know what they really stand for,</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106613204698620378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106613204698620378' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106613204698620378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106613204698620378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/10/for-all-right-wingers-who-dont-believe.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106531335332036194</id><published>2003-10-04T17:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-10-04T17:22:33.286-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Fellow travellers, last night I watched the most amazing doco!  It was all about how the Great McSatan (under Tricky Dicky Nixon) bribed Stanley Kubrick into shooting faked backup footage of the Appollo lunar landing, then had all those involved (except Kubrick) assassinated.  A more detailed synopsis is found here.This is big, fellow travellers. Big.  In fact, it's almost as big as that </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106531335332036194/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106531335332036194' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106531335332036194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106531335332036194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/10/fellow-travellers-last-night-i-watched.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106488621997014731</id><published>2003-09-29T18:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-09-29T18:44:24.700-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>By the way, fellow travellers, if you do want to contact me for spiritual advice, etc, then my e-mail address is now on the site.  (Lower left, where else?)  And remember, my fees are very competitive (and I don't mean that in a capitalist way).  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106488621997014731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106488621997014731' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106488621997014731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106488621997014731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/09/by-way-fellow-travellers-if-you-do.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106453909987882676</id><published>2003-09-25T18:08:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2003-09-25T18:24:48.506-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Right-wingers are forever claiming that the media in Australia is biased to the left.  But clearly, the opposite is the case.  This piece by the appalling peenie-waver Frank Devine bears this out.  In it, he actually admits to having committed an act of violence against women right in front of his (media) colleagues:"Once forced by feminist clamour to include women in an annual baseball game </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106453909987882676/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106453909987882676' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106453909987882676'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106453909987882676'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/09/right-wingers-are-forever-claiming.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106445014004219113</id><published>2003-09-24T17:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-09-24T17:40:41.310-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Matt Hayden puts forward a truly speciesist (and specious!) argument in his latest post.  In it, he complains that those poor sheep on the way to the Middle East shouldn't be complaining, and they're lucky to be getting a free, all expenses-paid cruise.  In an appalling invocation of the patriarchal, pro-human paradigm he claims he's the one being discriminated against!  But he just doesn't get</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106445014004219113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106445014004219113' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106445014004219113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106445014004219113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/09/matt-hayden-puts-forward-truly.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106431930973354423</id><published>2003-09-23T05:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-09-23T05:20:14.406-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Those appalling right-wingers are just so predictable, fellow travellers!  In his latest post, appalling right-winger Matt Hayden makes what appears at first to be a good point, chastising Professor Bunyip for playing the person and not the ball in a recent post.  Then, amazingly, he does exactly the same thing himself in an appallingly sexist commodification of the empowered mammary glands of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106431930973354423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106431930973354423' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106431930973354423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106431930973354423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/09/those-appalling-right-wingers-are-just.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106358851640137337</id><published>2003-09-14T18:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-09-14T18:18:03.560-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Appalling blogger Matt Hayden is totally insane, as well as fascist.  In a recent post he said that Shirley MacLaine's slipped disk was probably caused by "an over-zealous butt-probe from one of her little alien pals". What a ridiculous thing to say!  As we all know, aliens would never be so slapdash in their approach.   </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106358851640137337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106358851640137337' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106358851640137337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106358851640137337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/09/appalling-blogger-matt-hayden-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106349837898960026</id><published>2003-09-13T17:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-09-13T17:19:31.880-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The patriarchy will stop at nothing to regain control of society, fellow travellers!  Look at this story.  It describes how a bunch of scientists (all male, I'll bet) are injecting women with testosterone to make them more interested in sex.  (Yeah, so that afterwards they can disrobe them at syringe-point and violate them with their peenies!)   Sadly, some of these women think it's a good </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106349837898960026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106349837898960026' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106349837898960026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106349837898960026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/09/patriarchy-will-stop-at-nothing-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106264110273511922</id><published>2003-09-03T19:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-09-03T19:12:07.246-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Matt Hayden has really overstepped the mark.  He says that we on the left keep turing things into a "sensitivity competition", and that history should be "dispassionate".Really, what a callous thing to say.  How offensive!  How heartless!Just think what will happen if these right-wingers get control of the universities.  Students will be taught to look at the past from a "dispassionate" - </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106264110273511922/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106264110273511922' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106264110273511922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106264110273511922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/09/matt-hayden-has-really-overstepped.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106241970532620424</id><published>2003-09-01T05:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-09-01T05:39:38.136-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Appalling right-wing peenie-wavers are forever defending the Master of Evil against accusations of racism, sexism and homophobia.  "Where is the evidence?" they cynically, sneeringly enquire.  "Show me the evidence.  And then I might consider your argument."Well, here's the evidence.Convinced now, Howard-apologists?  The other disturbing thing about this snap is that this site is the only </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106241970532620424/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106241970532620424' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106241970532620424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106241970532620424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/09/appalling-right-wing-peenie-wavers-are.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106241461789060648</id><published>2003-09-01T04:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-09-01T04:41:56.113-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Some people may think that the term "Right Wing Death Beast" is a humorous one - tongue-in-cheek even - and that the people who describe themselves as such are just nice fellows who are sick of political correctness and over-zealous left-wing activism.  Some of our fellow travellers are even on speaking terms with them, and occasionally share drinks and polite conversation in pubs and other </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106241461789060648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106241461789060648' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106241461789060648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106241461789060648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/09/some-people-may-think-that-term-right.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106237912879998888</id><published>2003-08-31T18:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-08-31T18:25:34.703-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I found this story by way of the appalling Nazi Tim Blair.Apparently two Iraqi women have  married two Great McSatanite soldiers.  Tim - or should that be Tony? - seems to think it's a good thing.  But isn't it just more imperialism?I mean, first they invade the country and oppress the people with their "democracy".  And now they are oppressing these poor women with the sexist, degrading </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106237912879998888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106237912879998888' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106237912879998888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106237912879998888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/08/i-found-this-story-by-way-of-appalling.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106216368327831080</id><published>2003-08-29T06:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-08-29T06:30:15.686-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I thought the last site I mentioned (below) would be the most depressing for a while.  But I've just discovered something  even more appalling!  I can't work out which group it degrades more - felines, or homo sapien infants.  We have an awful lot of work to do, fellow travellers.  An awful lot of work...  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106216368327831080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106216368327831080' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106216368327831080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106216368327831080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/08/i-thought-last-site-i-mentioned-below.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106194785452278140</id><published>2003-08-26T18:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-08-26T18:32:02.160-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Fellow travellers, I have recently rejoiced in the great leaps and bounds made against humanity by the cute fluffy animals (non-human persons, I like to call them), but every now and then I encounter another appalling case of animal exploitation.  This is one of them.  Needless to say I was appalled.  But Jocelyn was devastated.  The fact that she actually knows some of the pussies shown on the</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106194785452278140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106194785452278140' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106194785452278140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106194785452278140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/08/fellow-travellers-i-have-recently.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106177975492325776</id><published>2003-08-24T19:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-08-26T18:38:30.310-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>By the way, fellow travellers, you may have noticed that Paypal logo down below.  And you may also have noticed that the e-mail address it links to belongs to that appalling peenie-waver Matt Hayden.This may have led to a few of you plaintively asking, "Er, please explain?"  Well, don't worry.  We are not sharing an account out of friendship.  He is still my sworn enemy.  You see, several </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106177975492325776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106177975492325776' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106177975492325776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106177975492325776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/08/by-way-fellow-travellers-you-may-have.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106177611322248617</id><published>2003-08-24T18:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-08-26T18:36:31.980-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Fellow travellers, recently I posted about how the cute fluffy animals are staging a feisty resistance against the pro-human paradigm.  I've just found a little more evidence of this.It's an online game called "Poke the Penguin".  Now, many people who have played this don't realise its significance.  They think it's just a mindless time-passer.  But I see it differently.  "Why do you see it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106177611322248617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106177611322248617' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106177611322248617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106177611322248617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/08/fellow-travellers-recently-i-posted.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106169820336764543</id><published>2003-08-23T21:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-08-23T21:10:03.403-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Update on yesterday's post:  It appears that the "Evil Pundit of Doom" has removed the photo of the Swiss Army ant.  Probably read my post and realised he was being made fun of!  Still, it would be interesting to know where he got the photograph.  I hadn't heard of this species before.  Is it protected?  If not, why not?  I might look into this, fellow travellers.  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106169820336764543/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106169820336764543' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106169820336764543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106169820336764543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/08/update-on-yesterdays-post-it-appears.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106169366376486001</id><published>2003-08-23T19:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-08-23T20:06:19.453-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>That appalling racist peenie-waving Nazi Matt Hayden recently answered an online quiz, the results of which told him that he was Elizabeth 1 in a previous life.  In his typically smug, facetious manner he said that made sense, because he was really "in touch with his feminine side".  Doesn't that make you angry?  I mean, the very idea that he can openly mock the feminist agenda like that, and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106169366376486001/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106169366376486001' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106169366376486001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106169366376486001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/08/that-appalling-racist-peenie-waving.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106151943861716738</id><published>2003-08-21T19:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-08-23T20:04:30.920-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>These Nazis are just so funny.  Have a look at this site by a self-described "Right-Wing Death Beast From Hell".  (Hey, you said it, buster!)This appalling blog is full of endless complaints about our paradigm-busting agenda to create a more harmonious, non-racist, non-sexist, non-speciesist society.  You'd think it would be a "no-leftist" zone, wouldn't you?Think again.  If you go to the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106151943861716738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106151943861716738' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106151943861716738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106151943861716738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/08/these-nazis-are-just-so-funny.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106117647947173366</id><published>2003-08-17T20:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-08-17T20:20:02.763-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I've been reading and hearing quite a bit about the life and "crimes" of our fellow traveller Idi Amin lately.  Many of those appalling right-wingers have been gloating over his recent passing.  Racists!Some have repeated the rumour that the "dictator" Amin ate his enemies.  Well, it was only a rumour.  And if it was true, what's wrong with it?  They were his people, after all.  As we on </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106117647947173366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106117647947173366' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106117647947173366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106117647947173366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/08/ive-been-reading-and-hearing-quite-bit.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106103134086255880</id><published>2003-08-16T03:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-08-16T03:55:40.700-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>After reading through my last post I realised that some people may have found the penultimate paragraph quite offensive.  But really, there's no need.  The tuna involved were all humanely terminated and dolphin-friendly. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106103134086255880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106103134086255880' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106103134086255880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106103134086255880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/08/after-reading-through-my-last-post-i.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-106091726288814146</id><published>2003-08-14T20:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-08-16T03:51:24.723-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Greeting fellow travellers.  I know I haven't posted lately and I have felt some twinges of guilt about this.  But I'm sure that you can do without my guidance.  (Well, most of you can, anyway.)  So, what was the reason for my absence?  Well, mainly the continual media fixation with the Amrozi trial - and its constant demonization of that so-called "terrorist".  The verdict and subsequent death</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/106091726288814146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=106091726288814146' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106091726288814146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/106091726288814146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/08/greeting-fellow-travellers.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-94042762</id><published>2003-05-09T02:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-05-09T02:42:32.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Still on the subject of creativity, fellow travellers, here's an interesting story.  It's about a paradigm-busting experiment in which monkeys were allowed to play with a computer for an extended period to see if they would create anything meaningful to us.  As the headline states, they didn't write Shakespeare.  Well, that's hardly surprising, isnt' it?  They are much more discerning than that</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/94042762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=94042762' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/94042762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/94042762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/05/still-on-subject-of-creativity-fellow.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-93960570</id><published>2003-05-07T18:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-05-09T02:12:35.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The news just keeps getting worse, fellow travellers.  Here, an exiled Iraqi expresses the view that the coalition of the willing (coalition of the appalling, more like) liberated Iraq!  And he says that Chirac, Kofi Annan and others on our side have no authority to speak on behalf of his people.  How dare he say such a thing!Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this is the fact that he </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/93960570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=93960570' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/93960570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/93960570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/05/news-just-keeps-getting-worse-fellow.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-93579540</id><published>2003-04-30T22:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-04-30T23:01:00.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>More appallingly right-wing speciesism in the media, this time from Gerard Henderson.  In this appalling, fascist diatribe, Henderson claims that Labor is completely out of touch and electorally doomed. The article begins:  "Despite many a (false) prophecy, Simon Crean's opposition to the involvement of the Australian Defence Force in the second Gulf War did not even deliver the proverbial '</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/93579540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=93579540' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/93579540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/93579540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/04/more-appallingly-right-wing-speciesism.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-92698834</id><published>2003-04-15T22:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-04-18T02:53:43.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The appalling Andrew Bolt at the Herod Sin (and I don't mean that in a pro-Christian way) makes a typically Western, morally absolutist claim in one of his latest columns.  "They were wrong," he pompously declares about us, utterly certain that he knows the "truth".  But as we all know, nothing can truly be known, and therefore, ipso (de)facto, nothing can be known to be absolutely true.  And </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/92698834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=92698834' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92698834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92698834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/04/appalling-andrew-bolt-at-herod-sin-and.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-92354494</id><published>2003-04-10T05:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-04-18T02:40:10.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Speciesism sadly still pervades our Western "civilization", fellow travellers.  Here is another tragic example of it.  This story, about a puppy who swallowed a knife, then had it removed, is told in straightforward terms as an upbeat, happily-ending "quirky".  And that's the end of the matter.  But does anyone look more deeply into this event?  Like, ask why the canine guzzled the lethal </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/92354494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=92354494' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92354494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92354494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/04/speciesism-sadly-still-pervades-our.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-92158826</id><published>2003-04-07T09:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-04-09T06:12:41.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Appalling Nazi Matt Hayden takes a typically mean-spirited swipe at the artistic community of Fremantle.  He dares to suggest that some of Deckchair Theatre's productions might be less than enjoyable!  How callous of him.  He's actually exhorting people to express critical views!  But Deckchair employs wimmin, ethnics and indigenes.  And as we all know, they need all the encouragement they can </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/92158826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=92158826' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92158826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92158826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/04/appalling-nazi-matt-hayden-takes.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-92155238</id><published>2003-04-07T08:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-04-07T08:58:29.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The appalling Nazis at Front Page Magazine are accusing Desmond Tutu of being anti-Semitic!  But how can he be?  He's a little black person.  Little black people never hurt anybody, anywhere, ever.  And that's exactly why they're slandering him.So what does this reveal, fellow travellers?  Well, clearly that Tutu is no anti-Semite.  And that Front Page Magazine is certainly full of racists!   </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/92155238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=92155238' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92155238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92155238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/04/appalling-nazis-at-front-page-magazine.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-92152088</id><published>2003-04-07T07:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-04-07T08:11:03.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This story states: "Authorities at Dublin Zoo, worried by the erratic behavior of their female polar bear, commissioned a study to find the problem and discovered she simply had a bad case of marital stress."Why do we persist in encouraging marriage when even polar bears find it oppressive?    </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/92152088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=92152088' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92152088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92152088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/04/this-story-states-authorities-at.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-92074565</id><published>2003-04-05T21:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-04-07T09:57:05.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Fellow pacifists might be interested in this approach to waging peace on the Great McSatan.  A Lithuanian MP is exhorting women to stop having sex with men who are for the war.  I do think the idea has merit.  But I must admit I'm a little torn.  You see, she describes women's sexual attractiveness as their "natural weapon".  But isn't that, like, a really phallocentric attitude, which implies </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/92074565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=92074565' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92074565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92074565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/04/fellow-pacifists-might-be-interested.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-92027384</id><published>2003-04-04T22:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-04-07T08:15:22.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Oh joy, fellow travellers, joy!  The appalling phallocentric speciesism that pervades Western "democracy" is finally being subverted -- subverted with extreme prejudice (and I mean that in a very tolerant way).  This daring act is no ordinary act of e(wo)mancipation.  The circus is a paradigm in which white males call all the shots, crack all the whips, ride all the elephants.  So by escaping </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/92027384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=92027384' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92027384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/92027384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/04/oh-joy-fellow-travellers-joy-appalling.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-91966195</id><published>2003-04-03T22:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-04-03T22:39:00.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>As you well know, my animal companion Jocelyn and I have long been advocates of Zero-Tolerance Tolerance (ZTT).  It has worked very well for us -- and for the helpless little minorities it champions -- for quite some time.  But it's clear that more and more people are brazenly rejecting this very reliable technique of achieving social harmony.Take this example, in which the appalling Janet </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/91966195/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=91966195' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/91966195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/91966195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/04/as-you-well-know-my-animal-companion.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-91601309</id><published>2003-03-29T05:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-03-29T05:52:53.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I have just learned that dolphins are being used to locate underwater mines in Iraq.  This is of course truly appalling.  But they are to face even further degradation after their tasks are performed.  You see, some of them will surely be hailed as aquatic war heroes on their return and will no doubt be paraded repeatedly before the TV cameras.  I fear that the combination of this adulatory </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/91601309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=91601309' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/91601309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/91601309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/03/i-have-just-learned-that-dolphins-are.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219472.post-91600332</id><published>2003-03-29T04:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2003-03-29T05:28:37.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Greetings fellow travellers.  I'm back!  After investigating the source of my template-related blogging troubles for several weeks, I came up with no hard evidence of sabotage.  And as we all know, when there's no hard evidence, there must have been a US government-orchestrated conspiracy and cover-up.I have my suspicions about exactly who was involved, of course.  Perhaps I'll describe them </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/feeds/91600332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5219472&amp;postID=91600332' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/91600332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5219472/posts/default/91600332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dereksapphire2.blogspot.com/2003/03/greetings-fellow-travellers.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17646793433780201807</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/sydneymatt/derek30.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
