Neville Bonner and the Great Emanciflopper

Neville Bonner the monarchist.  Kerry as Lincoln.  The meta-whine christening of SSR.
Neville Bonner

I know we're all Right Thinking Republicans about here but I just read Neville Bonner's speech to the constitutional convention , which he attended as a monarchist.  It's one of the more moving statements of conservatism I've read.  

I can't find an excerpt to quote shorter than the whole thing; but the text is short and worth reading.

He's ugly enough

The London Review of books suggests you should vote for Kerry because Abe Lincoln was a flip-flopper too.  


Abraham Lincoln was the very thing Kerry is accused of being by his opponents, a 'flip-flopper', someone who moved his emphasis, or changed his description of what
he was doing, or just plain changed his position, according to how the wind was
blowing. 'I will say, then,' Lincoln said during the 1858 campaign for the Senate, 'that I am not, nor ever have been, in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.' Lincoln was a Republican, of course, but John Kerry's journey has been a very modern one for a Democrat, a journey around every aspect of himself and every issue pressing in America, cutting and rounding and paring away as he goes, making jigsaw pieces from everything about himself and everything climbing up the polls, until a picture emerges at the centre of the puzzle: the face of a man who knows enough about compromise to be elected president.

Andrew Hagan is so instinctively, unconsciously and intellectually partisan I can't help but enjoy reading his articles.  He was less impressed by the other convention .

Megafaunadeath

Alex Steffen suggests remembering extinct species by getting tattoos, including the Linnaen name .  

Meta-whining

This wouldn't be a scoop site without meta-whining, so when cam gets a moment away from routine feats of Hamiltonian composition I have a few suggestions:

Not sure how many of these were hacks straight into the HuSite.
Permalink, Neville Bonner and the Great Emanciflopper, Sep 2004, Scrymarch
cam: Speech and Meta:

Republicanism is a vote of no confidence in the existing system, but you forget that you have taught us to love, honour and respect that system.

Yes, I think the Westminster is an inferior system. For reasons of equity alone a constitutional monarchy is repugnant. The Westminster is a hack to keep the true Executive (monarch) around but politically neuter them. The Washington is better if only for the reason that it has a purer definition of the executive.

Certainly an interesting speech.

I dont have any tattoos as I dont want my body to be a human doodle pad. Even with putting extinct species on your body it is still doodling on your skin.

Meta

Attempt ... just added sub I only put in the ones I use, so if other folks want additional html tags tell me and I will add them.

Radio buttons are great, the comments rating html code is embedded in perl code in comments.pl rather than being a box. I know where it is hiding , and hulver has a patch for it somewhere so changing it is a matter of mustering the energy and then testing it to make sure i got it right.

Trackbacks, I guess hulver has a patch for that too. I never bothered with them, but the Au political blog/pundit scene seems to be all movable type where trackbacks are a big part of the culture so .... I will have a look into adding them.

Good points on the reorganizing where the diaries go. I was kinding of hoping for a k5 like \"article sanctity\" rather than the dailykos style where the frontpage just has small rants. But it looks like the section can be abolished and articles go to front page or get dumped. Diaries should be the section level.

I havent been able to get the RDF/RSS to work properly yet either, for some reason the cron runs, and claims it is done, but the rdf file is 0 bytes. So still some kinks to work out.

I will be in NJ next week so my involvement with the site will probably be less for the week, I usually get worked to the bone up there and have no internet access when not at work. So ...

cam
cam: Test: Test for rating
Scrymarch: The benevolent dicatator responds!: Everytime I see the founder of a scoop site comment I get the music from the Godfather playing in my head.  Rusty in particular.

Yes, while I have to in the in disagree with Bonner I still found it eloquent and moving.  \"How dare you?\" is I guess the essence of small-c conservatism.  The Liberal Party put the first aboriginal in parliament, and kicked him out again too over an internal party scuffle.  How much does that sum them up.

I don\'t have any tatoos either, nor plans for one, it just struck me as an interesting idea.

Meta

Cool, radio buttons and sub all seem to be in there now.

Unlike the blogging trackbacks, which are manual, the HuSi trackbacks work automatically using the referrer.  So you get two-way links for free.  It seemed like a way to springboard off HuSi and blogs.

Diaries at the section level sounds good to me.  Article sanctity is sensible, and it means you don\'t have to gear up for a big feat of composition if you just wanted to post a diary.

RDF/RSS is not something I use a lot myself, it just seems part of the blogging scene.

User scoop is a harsh rater :)

Will look out for your return.
cam: Today and Meta-nutrition: yeh Bonner\'s speech was a good one, I got sucked into it and agred with him, except I am a republican and find the whole notion of a monarchy nauseous. But by the same token an indigineous person of the today is not the same as in 1788. So the claim to being hoodwinked even today by the \"anachronistic\" bearded men of federation doesn\'t wash.

Some more changes, articles still populate the front page. But there is no article section anymore. So any vote for an article will send it to front page or dump it. The diaries have taken up the place of section. I dont know a way to switch the frontpage/diary listing for the default URL. So it will have to stay that way.

Still have to implement trackbacks, for hulver\'s code, so will look to publishing the change. Please mention any other stuff you think needs changing.

I can see why rusty and hulver like mucking around with it, because of the boxes/blocks etc, you are never really mucking around with anything more that 100 lines of perl code so it is fun without having that feeling of trying to make sense of a tonne of code.

cam
cam: And: ... diaries have topics now.

cam

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