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8 Bizarre Republican National Convention moments that will go down in history
The Republican National Convention is over and Donald Trump is officially that party's presidential candidate. At first, I just made fun of the whole thing. There was a lot of craziness going on in Cleveland. But by the end, I was crying and more convinced than ever that I must vote in November. Now I vow to convince as many people as I can to do the same. Let me show you why I say that.Continue Reading >
Illegal Immigrant "Barbie" is the most offensive toy ever
I'd like to think I have a good sense of humor about things, but I'm not amused by fools who like to poke fun of people who are often subjected to systemic discrimination. Comedy and humor website Points in Case recently published images on how they feel Barbie should be updated for the 21st century and one of them includes "Illegal Immigrant" Barbie. Can you believe this crap? It's disgusting how offensive this doll is--it's not funny AT ALL!
Teacher who molested over 60 kids wants to bring their immigration status to court
Remember the revolting case of former Los Angeles elementary school teacher Mark Berndt who was convicted of molesting 23 children at Miramonte Elementary School? He fed some of his students semen cookies. Ugh! Well, he's in jail, but some of the poor kids that he abused are in my opinion being abused even further and this time by attorneys representing the Los Angeles Unified School District. Attorneys for LAUSD have asked a judge to allow the immigration status of the victims' families to be brought up in court. Are you kidding me? What the heck does the families' immigration status have to do with having been molested?
Salvadorian family narrowly escapes gang murder & that's just the beginning
A family of five children went through hellish conditions while crossing the border illegally for a better life in the U.S., but it was what they witnessed in their native country of El Salvador that pushed them to emigrate. Their mom Teresa Ortiz explained to Fox News Latino that her children witnessed a horrific gang-related murder right outside of their abuela's house. They saw a 21-year-old man get gunned down by gang members, also known as maras. I cannot imagine how that horrific event scarred these innocent kids. Once the gang members noticed that the kids had witnessed the crime, they also threatened to kill the entire Ortiz family. Teresa knew that she needed out.
WATCH: Eva Longoria like you've never seen (or heard) her
Eva Longoria has been so busy producing network television shows and advocating for U.S. Latino and immigrant rights, that it's sometimes easy to forget she's an actress. But she is, and she has a new film to prove it.
Longoria will star alongside Michael Peña in the gripping new drama, Frontera. The film follows Miguel (played by Michael Peña), a hardworking father and husband who crosses the Arizona-Mexico border illegally and is wrongfully accused of murdering the wife of a former sheriff. Distraught and desperate to help her husband, Miguel's pregnant wife (played by Longoria) attempts to cross the border, only to land in the hands of corrupt Mexican Coyote smugglers. Meanwhile, the ex-lawman is on a mission to uncover the truth behind his wife's death--a truth that may very well destroy one family's future.
7-year-old makes brutal journey to U.S. from Honduras to find her mom
You may want to grab a box of tissues before continuing on. A 7-year-old little girl named Aimee was caught crossing the U.S. border from Mexico in search of her mother. When border security stopped the child, who was found in Texas, and asked where she was going she nervously replied, "The U.S."
WATCH: Fox host freaks out over immigrant who called 911 for dying brother
Fox News' Fox & Friends aired some kind of disgustingness today where hosts acted shocked that emergency responders are "forced" to help Spanish-speakers in life and death situations even if it is suspected that they are undocumented immigrants. Fox News host Steve Doocy opened his offensive pie hole and said, "They stumbled across the border illegally and now they need your help!?" Are you FREAKIN' kidding me?
You know what I find shocking? That so-called educated hosts would entertain the idea that the right choice in a life and death situation for a HUMAN BEING would be to let the person die because it is more cost effective. Ugh, it's so disgusting that these talking heads can sit there and spew this nonsense and yes, I've got a clip of this vileness to share with you.
The 5 most outrageous things people are saying about the migrant children crisis
I've been trying to avoid the topic of the migrant children from Central America from a while now. My kids check out some of my posts and I'm convinced that knowing about how their country is treating thousands of children like them would break their hearts. However, the stupid things that some people are saying about this humanitarian crisis are just too much. It's gotten to a point that I feel it's immoral to keep quiet.
These 5 are some of the worst. I have to warn you, they range from stupid and ignorant to plain racist. Since there is little we can actually do to help in practical terms, the least we can do is to spread the word. Ready?
Sending immigrant kids back home should be ILLEGAL
Imagine traveling thousands of miles to the U.S., only to be turned away and told that you're not wanted here. Now imagine if you were just a child. This is the reality faced by 8-year-old Alejandro, who was stopped by a Border Patrol agent at the Texas border after traveling from his home in Honduras to join his parents in the United States. In a split second, Alejandro's three-week journey to the U.S. came undone, as he now faced the possibility of detainment and deportation.
Decomposed body found in Texas desert is a little boy & it's heartbreaking
Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez, an 11-year-old boy from Guatemala, was found dead on June 15 about a mile from the Rio Bravo, which separates the U.S. and Mexico along the Texas border. When this little boy's body was found it was already decomposing. Apparently, he had been laying there in the desert exposed to the elements for about 25 days. Authorities believe that the child died of heat exposure. He had no food and no water. The only reason that authorities were even able to identify him is because they found his brother's Chicago address scribbled on the inside of the belt buckle he was wearing.
This child's story is important. This is a story we all need to be invested in.

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Tyson Marquez Defense Derailed Due To Reveco Order
by Rafael Soto
The defense of WBA flyweight champion Hernan "Tyson" Marquez (33-2, 25KOs) has been derailed. He was going to face Filipino Ardin Diale on June 23rd at the CUM in Hermosillo, Mexico. But the WBA has ordered Marquez to defend his belt against mandatory challenger and interim-champion Juan Carlos Reveco (28-1, 16KOs). The show will still move forward, with Juan Francisco Estrada (21-1, 16 KOs) replacing Marquez against Diale.
"I was training very hard, and in the final stages of my preparation for a big show before the public in Hermosillo. We will comply with the regulations and we will face Reveco and I hope that my promoter make the fight in Mexico or the United States. We do not want to go to Argentina," Marquez said.
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Monckton warns Wong: You're steering Labor to doom
Andrew Bolt
–, Friday, August, 01, 2008, (9:16am)
Christopher Monckton warns Climate Change Minister Penny Wong that the Rudd Government's mad plans to cut "carbon pollution" is a disaster built on a fallacy:
If you introduce an emissions-trading scheme, when it transpires that the scheme and its associated economic damage had never been necessary - and it will, and sooner than you think - you and your party will be flung from office, perhaps forever.
This is Labor's New Age Khemlani moment, in fact. The full email from Lord Monckton to Wong:
Dear Senator Wong,
Greetings from Scotland! One of your constituents, Mr. John Cribbes, has asked me to drop you a short email about emissions trading and "global warming".
I have recently conducted some detailed research into the mathematics behind the conclusions of the UN climate panel on the single question that matters in the climate debate - by how much will the world warm in response to adding CO2 to the atmosphere?
My research, published in Physics and Society, a technical newsletter of the American Physical Society this month, demonstratres that the IPCC's values for the three key parameters whose product is climate sensitivity are based on only four papers - not the 2,500 that are often mentioned.
Those four papers are unrepresentative of the literature, in which a low and harmless climate sensitivity is now the consensus. Therefore I should recommend extreme caution before any emissions-trading scheme is put in place. Such schemes will damage Australia's competitiveness, perhaps fatally; they are prone to corruption in that they incentivize over-claiming by both parties to each trade and by the regulator; they are addressing a non-problem; and, even if the problem were real (as a few largely-politicized scientists persist in maintaining), adaptation as and if necessary would be orders of magnitude cheaper than emissions trading or any other attempt at mitigating the quantities of carbon dioxide that we are (harmlessly) adding to the atmosphere.
Therefore I strongly urge you to reconsider your support for this or any emissions-trading scheme. I have read the Australian Government's paper on the proposed scheme, and the science in it is, alas, largely nonsense.
Politically, of course, the fatal damage that emissions trading will do to the Australian economy will greatly favour the enemies of the free West, which is why I, as an ally, have locus standi to approach you.
Climatically, your emissions-trading scheme will not make any significant difference. There are many other environmental problems that are real: I recommend that the Australian Government should tackle those.
As for the climate, it is a non-problem, and the correct policy approach to a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing. Similar warnings are being sent to other legislators worldwide by those of us - now probably in the majority among the scientific community, not that one should do science by head-count - who have studied climate sensitivity and have found the UN's analysis lamentably wanting.
The UN's predictions are already being falsified by events: global temperatures have been falling for seven years, and not one of the climate models relied upon so heavily and so unwisely by the IPCC predicted that turn of events. If you introduce an emissions-trading scheme, when it transpires that the scheme and its associated economic damage had never been necessary - and it will, and sooner than you think - you and your party will be flung from office, perhaps forever. It is, therefore, in the long-term vested interest of your party to think again.
Monckton of Brenchley
Have Your Say
Send a cc to Brendan Nelson, AND to Malcolm Turnbull!
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:41am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:15pm)
ATTENTION Andrew Bolt.
I am sure you will be interested in an essay published today at ABC Unleashed:
New global warming science
By David Evans
Most unusual for an essay from a global warming skeptic to be published on Unleashed.
Normally Unleashed publishes anti-capitalist rubbish from ignorant Marxist's like Bob Ellis.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:30pm)
I will do JUST that!
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:34pm)
Shh, don't tell Bob Brown!
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:47pm)
For the urgent attention of Andrew Bolt:
David Evans
Dr David Evans worked for the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005, building the carbon accounting model that Australia uses to track carbon in its biosphere for the purposes of the Kyoto Protocol. He is a mathematician and engineer, with six university degrees including a PhD from Stanford University.
New global warming science
David Evans
Eighteen months ago it all seemed settled - a scientific consensus on climate change. But there's a revival of scepticism. Is this a political push or new science? David Evans claims the scientific picture has changed…
Fri 01 Aug 08 (01:24pm)
11.30am I wrote:-
"I will do JUST that!
I now have, and I hope that a whole lot of other people will do the same too!
Fri 01 Aug 08 (02:39pm)
Mmmmm; I'm sure Penny Wong will be shaking in her boots.
Fancy Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley; saying something like that in the Right Wing GW skeptic's bible, the Heartland Institute. Jet.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (03:15pm)
No need JayGee...the frontbench on both sides are avid Bolta readers.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (03:21pm)
I don't think Andrew is being rude by not acknowleging your posts. He has actually been covering David Evans' case since May 2nd.
Sorry everyone! Link isn't working again for some reason.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (05:34pm)
Hate to break it to you, the previous Howard Government accepted AGW & climate change & a need for ETS & so do the current Opposition.
Did you realise David Evans is a software developer & not a climatologist who has not put forth any peer reviewed material on this matter. So in effect, like Bolt, his article is just opinion & has no credibility whatsoever.
Was this meant to be someones idea of comedy?
Fri 01 Aug 08 (09:16pm)
My sentiments exactly. It was a relief to come home after a day working at a university, to log onto Andrew's blog, and read your perfect insight into the muddle that now passes as education.
I don't recall the name of the business person on Q&A;last night, but her claim that she "knew that climate change was real and was sooooooooo over those who had failed to get with the program...." left me speechless. The ABC audience applauded! When my 8 year old tries to challenge the AGW propaganda at school he gets quietly but firmly corrected.
I know there are many people who do not believe that CO2 is killing the planet, but some days it feels like a lonely road. Today was one of those.
Thanks Adiboy and Andrew and the rest of the bloggers and posters who keep the gaseous flame burning.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (09:39pm)
The 'issues' you attempt Bob Evans[i/] (04:34pm) are only as 'a repeat', there's nothing of great relevance made by such effort you make ...no good point in attempting such. There's no need for any ETS ...no good Environmental point and no observed, overtly functional 'trace gas warming' process of a supposed 'AGW by CO2' effect.
Yours, Peter K. Anderson aka Hartlod(TM)
Sat 02 Aug 08 (07:44pm)
Peter K.Anderson: I think I need a hard dose of LSD to understand you. On an even funnier note, it appears you are a serial spammer with little or no clue. Here is some gold.
"mostly off topic, not very coherent and not at all useful for discussion or educational purposes.
Peter, if you can contribute something more concise, and where possible substantiated, you are welcome to do so.
More Gold:
"Well Peter you haven't presented any reasoned arguments for or against material posted to Climate indymedia. Your arguments have no research associated with it while the reports being submitted do have links to other material and allows the reader to explore the issue and reach their own conclusion.
Perhaps if you presented well constructed and reasoned arguments then other readers wouldn't think your posts were spam or incoherent.
Comedy Gold.
Sun 03 Aug 08 (11:19am)
Seems a format mark was mis-made ...this 'the fault' you then blather over Bob Evans (06:44pm). Also is it been seen that the 'illconsidered.blogspot' cannot support its opinions without censorship ...whilst the 'climateimc.org' needs to fabricate and collude within its 'organisers' to 'guard against discussion'!
That 'attitude & effort' actually is what 'IndyMedia' was established to oppose. Still ...ALL the 'issues' you attempt Bob Evans are 'a repeat', there's still nothing of great relevance made ...no good point ...is making of allusion and lies your 'staple'? Notice also I am who I am, my (account) e-mail address unchanged even, not an 'anonymous' Internet User am I.
There's no good Environmental reason for an 'ETS' ...no good Environmental point ...no observed, overtly functional 'trace gas warming' process of a supposed 'AGW by CO2' effect! So again Bob Evans do I make;
'… The real question is why are these few are so intent on production of censorship, with the illogical and fictional claims they present about INDIVIDUALS as they attempt to claim censorship is needed? Next, 'who/what' are they protecting, as it is NOT the 'environment'. ...';
...for Bob one wonders if those few are as yet capable of having a discussion? 'They' aren't at all an honest 'collective' of 'individuals' still ...but have 'They' realised, at least, the futility of the lie 'They' peddle? ...do you?
Yours, Peter K. Anderson aka Hartlod(TM)
How did you get your blue-veined paws on this little gem?
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:41am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:21pm)
Peter, John Cribbes is a Gippslander who as a networker has few peers.
He is a real goer and if we had many more like him on our side victory would be assured.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (01:37pm)
How? Because quoting Monckton is like quoting Andrew Bolt these people feed off each other.
And both have about the same credibility.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (03:00pm)
Cedric old boy, you'll be thoroughly disappointed and pissed off to discover that Doomsday's not coming after all.
I'll be sure not to invite you to my Doomsday's Been Postponed barbie.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (04:18pm)
Phil Maguire what a wonderful idea, a Doomsdays Been Postponed Barbie, Aussie wide it would do so much to bring attention to the fact the planet is not warming and we could have some fun at the same time.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (06:00pm)
As opposed to Cedric who has less credibility than Barry Bones?
The bloke does not even know how to ask a question then gets snooty when it is pointed out to him.'
Now get that face paint on Cedric the kiddies need their clown back.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (06:01pm)
The attitudes of people like Wong,Rudd and the leftist droves who foolishly voted them in have been gradually forged over the last 30 years by socialist teacher unions. Poor education, the hallmark of the left, has resulted in a population dumbed down until they are blissfully unaware of their own shortcomings. I have witnessed it all over the past 50 years-as a teacher. I think it was Kipling who once said, "In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king." How true - unfortunately.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (06:58pm)
Curious. Darling, still a little peeved are we? Learn to 'hate' like the left. So much nicer
Fri 01 Aug 08 (07:12pm)
Righto Maggie, let's get it organised but we'll have to wait till the weather warms up!
Sat 02 Aug 08 (07:48am)
Phil Maguire , bring it on.
Sat 02 Aug 08 (08:26pm)
gradually forged over the last 30 years by socialist teacher unions.
Oh of course, its ALL the teachers union fault for everything. Sheeesh, I hope my kids dont go to your school. But hey I agree that Teachers unions suck. If I hear of them negotiating one more payrise for under worked overpaid over holidayed teachers I will blow my stack.
Poor education, the hallmark of the left,
Ahh the blame game, it never tires does it? Actualy I thought poor education was due to poor teachers & the academic nature of the individual. What a huge generalisation there Adiboy. So everyone schooled in Australia in the past 30 years are dumb? Dammit!! We better tell the various CEO's, business owners, scientists, journalists, doctors & lawyers schooled over the past 30 years that they are actualy dumb.
"The correct policy approach to a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing".
Wise counsel.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:45am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (11:55am)
Yes. It is often referred to as "Masterly Inactivity".
I doubt Wong and Rudd have the courage and intestinal fortitude to master this philosophy.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:35pm)
"Masterly inaction"
Fri 01 Aug 08 (01:15pm)
"I doubt Wong and Rudd have the courage and intestinal fortitude to master this philosophy."
NEITHER ONE WOULD HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS.Incidentally ,the clanging grinding and screams you hear is a train wreck happening right now to the AGW trasmogrifiers .Lovely isn't it..
Fri 01 Aug 08 (02:06pm)
Masterly Inaction
It's called a Zugswang in chess, or a 'quiet move'. Usually in the end game you essentially do nothing significant, relying on the fact that your opponent must move next, inevitably damaging his position…
The precise question Wong must be asked is: In degrees centigrade what difference will your trading scheme make to global temperature?
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:46am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:14pm)
The only thing measurable will be the money this scheme rakes in.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:17pm)
Unfortunately the only question Wong will answer in regards to this email is.
'Do you want to permanently delete all the items in your Deleted Items folder?'
The Government's hands are securely cuffed over their ears.
Sat 02 Aug 08 (01:18am)
It's a trading scheme. It's a wank.
Did not conervative bloggers implored the swinging
voters to give the spinners and outright liars -
Rudd and the Kevites a miss ?
We tried, we cried, we shouted, we begged we
used logic, reason and commonsense instead of spin to show you why you should have continued
with excellence in government. A government
admired the world over and which was acting in
the best interests of the nation and its people.
YOU the swingers decided you wanted no more of
John Howard, Peter Costello and their government
and instead went for the Rudd turkeys.
You got the government you deserved, didn't you ?
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:49am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:02pm)
You got the government you deserved, didn't you?
Unfortunately Len the rest of us got the same government.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:02pm)
You got the government you deserved, didn't you?
Unfortunately Len the rest of us got the same government.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:19pm)
It's a good reminder, Len.
A relative small number of swinging voters - probably of questionable political nous - made a fateful decision last year (considering the seats that fell to Labor).
If the ALPs majority increases at the next election it'll be confirmed. We're nuts.
On the Monckton piece, I'd doubt the evangalical in our governments will even blink an eye - and certainly not Ms Wong. She'll instead do what she did last night on Q&A;whenever somebody disagreed with her; nod politely and plough on regardless - to oblivion, I trust.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (02:42pm)
Stupid Swingers…
I'm not going to go to their parties anymore.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (04:54pm)
Lets not forget that LaboUr, which is the heart of Australian racism, used racist tactics to get the Chinese vote to oust Howard. The rotten scent of Chinese govt involvement lingers over that one too.
There you have it: Voter stupidity and a good dose of old fashioned racism; laboUr style, but applied in the funky style of multiculturalism, has decided on a govt to take us to a darker place than even Keating abandoned us.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (08:10pm)
One young Mum voted for Rudd because she thought he was cute. Same young Mum now understands cute does not help her family.
My grandaughter told me that many of theyoung voted for him because they thought he was cool.
Some are now looking for work and are awakening to their folly. They could walk form one job to another but not so at the moment.
Starbucks and Don may make headlines but very small businesses including doctors, dentists, accountants, lawyers and shopkeepers do not get a mention and that is where the jobs are made.
I think the recession is here and I think it is biting.
The RBA and the treasurer need to lift their eyes and look outside the National Capital although I believe that is not in very goood shape either.
Rudd and Swan have no idea. A pair of blue tailed flies.
Could we get Monckton to also forward this to the climate alarmists in the Liberal front bench as well?
It seems that Turnbull hasn't gotten this message, although it seems the backbench and Dr Nelson have.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:51am)
Is that genuine? It sounds like something Tim Blair would pen… I find it noteworthy how readable and unconvoluted is the language of the piece - testament to Orwell's notions on simple prose.
Can you imagine the coverage such a note would get if had it been from a Tory in, say, 2003 kindly advising Howard that boatpeople/terrorism/other was a furphy that would cost him government. Blogs are on the ascendancy because newspapers are not the world as it seems.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:51am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:02pm)
Follow the links in Andrew's blog and read Lord Christopher Monckton's actual article in the Physics and Society" technical newsletter of the American Physical Society. I hope Wong does too. But judging by her superior attitude on ABC QANDA last night I don't think JC himself would be able to convince her that she is not right. She is hell bent on creating a cap and trade scheme in Australia when actual experts clearly say the European scheme is NOT working. The "farm lady" on last nights Q&A;is typical of the "science is settled" morons who are unable to look at anything logically. I pity our country and our people.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (01:07pm)
The best question by far on Q&A;last night was to Penny Wong:
"Who in you Department plays Devil's Advocate on emerging scientific claims?
Went unanswered.
Don't you just love these ostriches!
Fri 01 Aug 08 (01:07pm)
Joe-Blog replied to Carnaby
Fri 01 Aug 08 (11:02am)
'The "farm lady†' is just a businesswoman and with as much connection to a farm as I have these days (well she might actually own a hobby farm I suppose) and unless her son, the press agent/fixer for Kevin Rudd, has different politics, she is a dead loss. In fact, I wonder whether any real farmers on this blog might like to tell us whether Harris Farm Markets are the same rip-off merchants as Woolworths and Coles.
Other than that, she was obviously a person who lives on the anecdote. Her 'grape growers' for example. Her attitude to illegal immigrants was similarly evidence-adverse too ('I thought we were beyond that debate' sort of thing). 'Her' grape growers might be some of the many new users of Murray/Darling water which have led to some of the lower intakes these days. Unless she is a large cotton user I can't blame her for that water use.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (01:12pm)
The 'farm lady' last night is the mother of Lachlan Harris, the 28yr old Press Secretary to PM Mr Rudd. Incestuous Leftist Government-Media links you might say?
Fri 01 Aug 08 (04:56pm)
'The 'farm lady' last night is the mother of Lachlan Harris, the 28yr old Press Secretary to PM Mr Rudd. Incestuous Leftist Government-Media links you might say?'
Hah! - the ABC is shameless.
Asking a religious fanatic to think again is a fruitless exercise. Neither Wong nor Rudd will think again but this does leave the Liberals a golden opportunity and I for one hope they take full advantage of this catastrophic mistake.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:51am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:12pm)
True, Froggie
These people who include evolutionists, ethicists and other lefties are very frustrating. Unfortunately, with Mr Howard gone, the difference between labor and liberal is not as defined as it used to be.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (02:05pm)
FROG - I believe this whole CON on Global Warming has been taken over by very bias fanatics - which includes the majority of Journalists in the Print and Electronic Australian Media.
Therefore, the TRUTH AND BALANCE on the ACTUAL SCIENCE has been thrown out of the window.
We can not have a genuine debate with these fanatics - they will not listen to FACTS.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (02:26pm)
say, what do you mean "evolutionists and other lefties"? Do you think that all conservatives believe in a creation theory or that if you believe in evolution, you are automatically a leftie?
If you want to believe in intelligent design, or whatever you want to call it, that's fine but I can assure you that lots of conservatives support the theory of evolution. The grouping you made is nonsense.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (02:47pm)
They will never reconsider as it was only ever about transfering money from "the rich to the poor" snd building up bureaucracy
Perhaps he should send it to Dr Nelson also
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:54am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (01:27pm)
Gutho, I have!
'… you and your party will be flung from office, perhaps forever.'
Andrew, then I'd imagine you'd be all for it.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:54am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:15pm)
Why? Good governments need good opposition. With all its faults, Labor is a professional outfit. They just need to stop blindly following every fashionable ideology de jour. That's why Labor governments get swept into office on the waves of optimism only to be thrown out by the angry mob. Fads don't last and long-term governments are sustained by bread and butter issues the Leftist world-changers find so booooring.
Global Warming will be Labor's golden opportunity to learn the hard way. There will be tears.
PS. I may be too optimistic. The history teaches us that Left aren't very good at learning. The usual answer to every one of their spectacular failures is "more". "It failed because we didn't try hard enough, didn't throw more money at it, didn't have a bigger enough bureaucracy and didn't go far enough in general".
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:22pm)
What's the point in opposing Labor AFTER they destroy the country?
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:58pm)
JoB, you're citing the authors comments, not Andrews.
Instead, why not focus on the debate at hand - or do you also put your hands over your ears running around the room yelling "i cant hear you i cant hear you" like Wong and co when an opinion contrary to yours is presented?
Fri 01 Aug 08 (03:29pm)
Labor learns bugger all. Each time they get into office, they always come up with the stupidest policies that do great damage to the society and economy. And yet, people still vote them in. Goes to show how short people's memories are.
Wow! A sleepless night for Penny? Or will she foreward it to Rudd & say "over to you boss", and let him have the sleepless night?
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:55am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (03:18pm)
Penny Wong is firmly stuck in the "Science is Settled" mode. She even referred skeptics to the Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" which Climate Scientist Dr David Evans tells us was based on the flawed earlier ice cores rather than the more accurate ones available in 2003. As David says in his article, Gore would have known that data he was using had been negated by the more recent and more accurate data but he chose to use it anyway. Tells us a lot about the character of Gore who should be stripped of his "gongs" and the sooner the better!
There are two issues that have been locked together. Firstly there is
Carbon dioxide and so-called climate change - it just isn't happening. Secondly there is the rapid use of natural resources - this is happening and we need renewable energy technology instead of depleting all natural sources of energy.
So how come you never slammed Howard for planning to introduce such a system? How come you don't lambast Nelson for intending to introduce such a system??
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:55am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (11:53am)
Hello..firstly my dear fellow the Howard Government did not even go close to detailing a plan as stupid and savage as the one Rudd and his people plan to hoist on all of us - next - clearly you don't read much of this Blog - or you would see where Andrew has taken considerable time to "lambast" [your word not mine]Mr Nelson. ...ANDREW - I think the ref you made to "New Age Khemlani" is pure gold and should be drummed along as fast as possible to remind people how serious this damned thing will be if it get's started. It will also alert younger people - many of whom clearly helped put Rudd into office - what type of history the ALP has in producing major cock-ups!!
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:00pm)
Can't you read?
Andrew did! And we are!
What the heck is it with you people?
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:14pm)
We did lambast Howard over his ETS. He didn't announce it until the dying days of his government, with an election on the up, and most of us who supported the Coalition over Labor were lefting scratching our heads. He never sold it with conviction, and it appeared to be a nod toward capturing swinging voters in the marginals, pushed by Turnbull and co. We abhored it as policy, though.
And, yes, we continually criticse Nelson over his ETS, too. Consistently.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:18pm)
We kind off all though Howard wasn't going to do anything.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:23pm)
Because it was obvius that though Mr Howard was very sceptical of AGW he was not going to implement any action until the science was proven(he knew it never could be) and the big polluters came aboard.
He could not afford to blatently condemn ETs,he had to wait for the blinkers to drop from the eyes of the brainwashed and the masses of ordinary people who had not the time or interest to take note of what was being fed to them or rather reading only what a corrupted media was feeding them
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:31pm)
Obviously because the system was only mooted to appease people like you. Once the AGW myth was exposed - no harm no foul, back to business as usual. That's why
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:38pm)
We are!
Most posters on this blog want the Coalition to dump the whole ETS idea. It's frustrating that they keep paying lip service to this swindle.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (03:02pm)
Two bob each way, Crapper Tez
Penny Wong, Minister for Urban Myths.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:56am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:04pm)
"Politically, of course, the fatal damage that emissions trading will do to the Australian economy will greatly favour the enemies of the free West"
Now I know Kevin is eager to please the Chinese, but this is ridiculous.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (02:53pm)
Rudd will never admit he got it Wong.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (08:10pm)
Penny Wong got the job over Peter Garrett precisely because she isn't an AGW fanatic. She is a professional politician managing a situation for Kevin Rudd. The Labor Party has got a tiger by the tail with its ETS and she is the lion tamer.
In the end though AGW will come to nothing and the question for her will be whether she will still have a political career at the end of it. If she can quietly let the air out of the balloon without anyone noticing she will have a bright future.
If you had any doubt about the government's misinformation campaign, check out the website being promoted by the new guilt add - "think climate. think change." (subliminal instructional message). climatechange.gov.au
Most of the science supporting AGW on their own website refers to the obsolete IPCC Third Assessment Report from 2001!
They are still peddling the hockey stick graph!
Remember this is the website they are advertising to us with our money, and presented as scientific fact.
Look at:
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this mess is getting more ridiculous…
I've just received my rates notice from the city of Port Phillip. Council expenditure includes $511,000 for 12 new climate change initiatives. The council has developed a "Toward Zero Strategyâ€.
That's exactly what this completely futile program will achieve. Zero!
That tax alone is about $10 per household.
Add that to the state government's $200 million action plan to "reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change."
That's a tax of about $110 per household!
The federal government is wasting over $2 billion on climate change, and the ETS is yet to come.
That's about $260 per household.
Is this how much false guilt costs?
We've only just begun…
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:56am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (03:30pm)
Maybe the council can be taken to court to justify the increases. This would certainly bring the matter to a head.
Hopefully Penny Wong and Prime Nanny Rudd will ignore this sound advice. I am SO taken with the idea that an ETS will consign Labor to the scrapheap of Australian politics that I am prepared to pay real money and endure some pain to see that accomplished.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:57am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:39pm)
Perhaps there is a bright side to this after all.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (01:50pm)
William, best to not trash Australia for nothing.
The socialists will just send the ALP to the political chop shop, and it will be reborn with a new identity and a flashy paint job.
In 1989 I believed that the many vocal local supporters of the 'workers-paradise' command societies of Eastern Europe would fade away. I reasoned that these people, so full of self-professed morality, would be too embarrassed to remain active in political debate. Their theories had failed, their statements were shown to be false, and their unfortunate 'lab rats' rebelled and reformed their societies.
More fool me to expect a new fact-based political debate in Australia...but it was a useful experience regarding the mental gymnastics of moralisers.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (01:59pm)
We can only hope that when the great unwashed wake up to the ALP ,the damage is not beyond hope of recovery. But I fear that with their new policies-particularly immigration, the damage is going to go deep.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (05:17pm)
I think it important to acknowledge that the seeds of destruction were sown by the good and stable job that the howard govt. did when they were in power - longevity of prosperity.
Since then, many young people have never heard or seen a 'down-turn' in the economy.
Rudd, I guess, had a better 'play station' profile - from what i've heard this group delivered power to the left. Everyone has to learn...and in the end, it can be a difficult lesson.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (05:17pm)
I think it important to acknowledge that the seeds of destruction were sown by the good and stable job that the howard govt. did when they were in power - longevity of prosperity.
Since then, many young people have never heard or seen a 'down-turn' in the economy.
Rudd, I guess, had a better 'play station' profile - from what i've heard this group delivered power to the left. Everyone has to learn...and in the end, it can be a difficult lesson.
I said this many bloggs ago. Rudd, the most dangerous leader ever. Worse than Whitlam. Pointless AGW destruction of the economy. Stone age.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:57am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (01:16pm)
That's right Tazzz! Whitlam was a rational and coherant leader compared to Mr Sheen.
Sadly we have an Opposition Leader who's a swinging voter too! The man couldn't work IN the Labor Party so now he's working FOR them under another guise. Give him the flick for Costello ASAP.
Has labor already gone too far to back down? The prospect of labor out of office, perhaps forever, is the only bright spot in this mess.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (10:58am)
Based on last nights Q&A;performance, Wong's reaction to this will be to look over at Tim Flannery, smirk and roll her eyes. Without the camera rolling she may point her finger at her temple and make little circular motions.
Ms.Wong isn't interested in debating GW. She believes in it and says things like, "do we really want to take the risk" that it's all garbage? That sort of muddled emotional thinking.
Anyway, I didn't vote for these patsies so I'll enjoy watching the wheels come off.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (11:00am)
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:09pm)
Abu, do you have Penny's home address?
I have a great 'meteor shower safety bunker' I'd like to sell her. Its very expensive but hey, "does she really want to take the risk"???
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:25pm)
Glenn Milne had the best suggestion for Wong a couple of weeks ago.
Get her out of the senate and parachute her into Belinda Neal's seat of Robertson.
Robertson will revert to the Libs next election (on-the-nose Neal holds it by just 96 votes) - bingo! Kill three birds with one stone. Neal, Wong and Labor. Brilliant!
Fri 01 Aug 08 (12:52pm)
AC; she is a piece of work, isn't she? Arrogant and stupid; the Pascal's Wager argument is about faith and religion, which is all she has left given her abyssmal level of understanding about AGW 'science'; and how smug is flannery? No more benefit of the doubt for this swine; and what about turnbull; this guy is a dyed-in-the-wool chardannay socialist; what a hypocrite; I wonder if he has his ETS in place? A pox on all of them.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (01:57pm)
Penny Wong has got it Plenty Wrong.
Minister for Gormless Warnings is more like it.
It is culpable for a Minister of anything to simply blow off discourse that might inform her ability to properly carry out her duty regardless of what mandate she assumes.
PS — I doubt that she has ever had a 'man-date'.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (02:25pm)
Risk - meteor shower - a pathetic argument of Wong's. She's rusted into her position. We may be moving into a new phase. Imagine ... as the realisation grows that AGW is bunk. Some people such as Wong will stand to lose their pet projects and lose credibility. They'll smear, cat fight. They won't just say, "Oh dear, I think you're right. Thank you for telling me." It's not about right. It's about power. Redistribution of wealth etc ...
That well written letter should scare the living SH*T out of every level headed, commonsense Australian.
I say this seriously folks. God help this country in a decade if Rudd and Wong are left to do what they are planning.
Fri 01 Aug 08 (11:00am)
Will the facts eventually emerge ?
Don't you think that Labor will spend how ever much of our taxes it takes to "keep up the scare" (as Nathan Bedford Forest was wont to say) to drown our any general acceptance of the falsity of MMGW. Don't you think that the MSM will continue to collude in this sham ? Do you think that the many high profile MMGW alarmists will retreat one inch ? Won't it ever be the case that scientists, journalists and politicians who argue against MMGW will be treated as cranks ?
Andrew, I would not be too confident that reason and truth will out. Keep in mind that Socialism & Communism are still articles of faith with millions in the free West, notwithstanding widespread knowledge of the horrific human and economic consequences of those failed systems.
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Fri 01 Aug 08 (02:32pm)
Yeah, if they still support socialism, support Saddam despite the mass death and torture, they are hardly likely to change from AGW lightly. In fact they heartily like it. They like people being hurt. They want them in the stone age. They don't want babies. They support death and destruction. The left is absolutely anti-humanity. They have more respect for other life forms.
Truth is the left is about jealousy. They don't like to see others do well. AGW policy is a levelling tool.
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So sorry.
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Nothing for pain,
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Did Jack just say make sure they don't give him anything for the pain?
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Jack: I don't mind them tending his wound, just don't give him anything for the pain.
Jack must have missed sensitivity training seminar.
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Poor Guy, being that it's California, I know that guy who asked what's in the cannisters was hoping the answer was:
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is this where McCain comes in?
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LOL...Up yours ACLU!!
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Ouch again....
All Jack would have to do is point a paperclip at me and I'd tell him everything....
Even my real weight.
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Audry isn't enjoying this ... or is she?
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Jack, cut his eye out. We were robbed of that last week.
Rudy's preoccupied. He's got to get across the street to his sister.
One minute I like Rudy,
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So what!
He's got a "deal"???? Later, they say, "We don't need no Steeenking deal!" Is the guy stupid? What deal?
I think Rudy's another George Mason - before the radiation.
That would have been the best place :)
I no longer like Rudy.
Micro manager....
Time for more wine...BRB.
Right. So he makes a bad call. Why was the interrogation on live feed anyway?
Wonder if McCain brokers the deal?
Rudy's ok.
Ya know sumpin'?
This episode is a PERFECT example of how to fight terrorists and what the whiney LEFTISTS/ACLU want to do to protect them..
The SOB terrorists KNOWS he can ask for a lawyer and then demands a certified agreement to his demands...what a piece of SCUM...he has NO RIGHTS...he's a TERRORIRORIST!!!!
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Is he really going to be on the show? Or am I having a blond moment.?
Audrey needs to just...I dunno, go home or something.
Absolutely right.
According to McCain, he's going to be on the show. But, he advised the audience "not to blink".
she needs to go have surgery to remove the pole from her rectum
he is supposed to be on tonight.
McCain is the ranger that delivers Kim to CTU.
Sam must be off his lembas bread.
He's supposed to be...
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I don't know for sure that McCain is going to be on--it's a rumor as far as I know.
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A man is in jail after leading police on a short vehicle chase. According to the police report, the vehicle pursuit began on Monday morning when officers located an occupied vehicle driven by, 21-year-old Seth Richard Wallin of St. Cloud, in a parking lot in the 500 block of Highway 10 South.
Wallin had an active felony warrant for 5 degree controlled substance along with other unrelated charges relating to a domestic abuse no contact order. Before officers approached Wallin, Wallin accelerated away from the officer. The officer pursued the vehicle however stopped the pursuit shortly after because of Wallins erratic driving.
According to police, several minutes after the officer stopped the pursuit; police received calls that Wallin had crashed his vehicle into an oak tree in the 1500 block of 2nd Street Southeast. Wallin fled the scene on foot but was located in the area by arriving officers. Officers found a small amount of Methamphetamine in Wallin's possession.
Wallin was arrested and taken to the Stearns County jail where he is being held for court on his outstanding warrant and the other domestic abuse no contact order charge. Wallin will also be charged in Benton County with felony fleeing police in a motor vehicle and 5th degree possession of a controlled substance.
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Friday, 27th July, 2012, 06:37 AM #141
Or, to pick up on your reference to "fluff" limiting options: I don't object to a game in which oozes can't be tripped. But if this is going to be anything other than the most corner of corner cases, write the mechanics to support it (eg make creatures with the "ooze" keyword immune to tripping, just as, in 4e, creatures with the "swarm" keyword are immune to forced movement from melee and ranged attacks).
If I had to reduce everything to a single dichotomy, for me it would be about the relationship between mechanics and fiction - is the main basis for experiencing the fiction, as a player, by experiencing the mechanics? or are the two independent? (I think 4e goes the first way, 2nd ed AD&D the second way; I think many of those who complain about caster dominance reject the response "just don't have your wizard memorise those spells" because that approach requires separating the fiction from the mechanics in a way at odds with the first playstyle.) But in fact this dichotomy doesn't capture all the differences, even if captures one of the more salient to which many others are related.
For me, it's about GMing a certain sort of game without having to juggle a conflict of interest: I want to be able to frame a scene, have the PCs start to engage with it, and then play my NPCs, monsters, traps etc to the hilt, witout having to hold back on the action resolution side. Of course many aspects of action resolution require me to exercise judgement (who attacks whom?, should I narrate the failed Diplomacy check as the beginning of a thunderstorm?, etc) but I want to be able to do this confident in the knowledge that there is a robust mechanical underpinning which will tell me whether things are running for or against the PCs without me having to make that up myself.
I think I'm a fairly good GM, but that doesn't mean that I don't need the game to have the right tools to support the GMing techniques I want to use.
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The best metaphor I've heard for this involves cars, with car manufacturers keeping the crux of a model the same for years. The basics of the Ford F-series have constant for 60 years. That doesn't mean an innovation doesn't deserve notice.
The rule exists to remind me that the past cannot be easily dismissed and must be respectd.
For example, classes like the paladin, ranger, bard, and assassin. Do they need to exist? Nope. Not with a decent multiclassing system. Most a hybrids and the assassin in especially redundant. However, all have been classes in more than 2 editions and so should be core classes in 5e.
Err on the side of more rules and examples.
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Friday, 27th July, 2012, 07:20 AM #143
Simply decoupling skills from class is a fairly basic move (altough with potentially interesting consequences on its own), but building up backgrounds to be a richer feature of the PC and the PC's embedding in the gameworld seems a good development. Where I'm a bit dissapointed at the moment is that the designers aren't giving any indication of how they might leverage this into a rich and rewarding non-combat resolution system. (Though @Crazy Jerome has pointed to hints of this in the DM Guidelines document: on p1, RHS at the bottom of the column they talk about the importance of intents and stakes. So at least they are using the right vocabulary, even if, to date, they're not doing much with it.)
I also came into 4e looking for certain things, based on my growing dissatisfaction with Rolemaster and especially its lack of conflict resolution mechanics outside combat. One clear example of frustration, for me, was GMing Bastion of Broken Souls (having converted it to Rolemaster, and tweaked it to fit it into the cosmology and thematic flavour of my campaign, which was roughly "mortal freedom vs heavenly-mandated karma"). In that module, there is a scene where the PCs wish to meet with an exiled god, and the gate to that god's prison plane is not only guarded by, but actually takes the form of, an angel. To open the gate you have to kill the angel.
Now the module says that the angel won't talk, and has to be killed. (The module, as written, is annoying like that in several places.) I naturally disregarded that, and one of the PCs - nicely played by his player - tried to persuade the angel that the only way to stop massive suffering in the mortal world was to let herself be killed, even if this meant going against the decree of heaven that she was carrying out.
Resovling this involved an impassioned performance by the player (at least impassioned by my table's standards! we're not taking out any drama awards), mediated via skill checks (I can't remember now what the relevant skills were, but maybe Leadership, Etiquette and Conciliation). The problem was, I had no real basis as a GM for deciding when they PC (and player) had said enough. Allow the first roll to be adequate, and the scene is cut short and its dramatic potential undermined. Keep insisting on more rolls, though, and I'm making success here impossible (and pushing the players to default to combat, which has more objective adjudication procedures). The whole situation is getting very close to "mother may I" and an ultimately arbitrary choice by me to let the player suceed or not.
For me, the skill challenge framework (or anything similar) solves this problem by establishing boundaries, and a pacing dynamic within that, that let's me play my NPC and evolve the situation in interesting ways without having to decide, essentially arbitrarily (as it seems to me) when enough skill checks, or a high enough skill roll, do the job.
If I hadn't come to 4e with these sorts of dissatisfactions in mind, and with a conscious desire for a different sort of game more indie-ish in the sorts of ways I've described (but still gonzo fantasy in its underlying tropes and themes), I might have had a pretty different experience.
Now I think there is probably more combat in my 4e game than in my Rolemaster game, just because 4e PCs are so primed for combat when you look down a character sheet, and the combat mechanics beckon! For 4e (as, in my view, for other versions of D&D as well) I think that combat is the primary site of conflict resolution.
But I haven't felt I've had to push against the game to introduce the non-combat stuff that has been part of my campaign. I don't know if this is because of my own experiences and preconceptions as a GM, or something about my players, or the fact that I have mostly ignored the WotC modules, or some combination or influence of other factors I'm not thinking of.
And even within combat, my players have done creative stuff from very early on - like the player of the paladin using his religion skill to say prayers when in combat with undead in a very early session. (I allowed a check for combat advantage staked against a modest amount of damage from the undead's backlash against an ineffective prayer.) And as we've got more familiar with the system, the players continue to try more interesting stuff, especially using their attack powers out of combat. The page 42 framework, and other things I've extrapolated from that (like the importance of keywords), plus a freedom to rely on "genre logic" and metagame/narrative "causation", have been key here.
If we changed to GURPS or back to RM or whatever, the issue for me wouldn't be a squelching of player creativity, but rather a lack of GM tools to adjudicate non-combat resolution in the ways I've become used to. And hence, I think, less unexpectedness in resolution than what we've been experiencing in 4e.
A final comment: from other posts of yours, it seems that your 4e game got bitten badly by scaling problems which undermined both the narrative and the mechanical integrity of play. Whether through good luck, good management or maybe just not having pushed so hard against the fragile areas (like destruction of objects, say) my group hasn't had that experience.
But I can see how it is a real problem inherent in the system. I think bounded accuracy is one of the better things being suggested for D&Dnext.
Friday, 27th July, 2012, 07:42 AM #144
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It seems to me that the feel, nostalgia, the soul of the game (and the actual legally defensible IP for that matter), isn't in the mechanics. If you're fighting Beholders and Illithids in the Underdark, and casting Mordenkainen's Sword, you're playing D&D in some sense, even if you've lifted mechanics from some other system to do it with. I know the actual IP's a little thin, but it carries a lot of currency with us older fans, too, I think. So, sure, a monster or a magic item new to one edition that isn't adding much can go and classic ones can stay - but the mechanics that model them should be open to improvement.
Given that, yes, bad, fixable mechanics will still sell, but good mechanics would be, well, /good/.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'crux.' But I think I see the point. The Beetle, for instance, has it's unique styling that's been brought back twice, it's still a small economy car - but under the hood, it's not the same (there's an engine there, now). Keeping it familiar didn't mean leaving the technology alone.The best metaphor I've heard for this involves cars, with car manufacturers keeping the crux of a model the same for years.
OK. I see your point.Ignoring the AoO/OA system would be a colossal pain. But, having to create your own OA system would be worse.
Err on the side of more rules and examples.
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Friday, 27th July, 2012, 07:51 AM #145
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I think maybe one of the reasons I haven't had the same problem with GURPS that you had with RQ could be because GURPS does have 'contests' which allow for something similar to a skill challenge to be possible. (Note: I have no familiarity at all with RQ or Rolemaster; I'm only going off of other posts of yours I have read.)
The basic idea is that success is not as binary as it is in D&D; it's not simply a yes/no thing. In your angel example, let's say I try some sort of mind control spell which is resisted by the will of the angel. In D&D I would roll against the angel's will defense and I would either succeed or fail. In GURPS I would compare how well I rolled versus how well the angel rolled and different degrees of success (or failure) might mean different things.
In the last few 4E games I DMed, I ported that idea into D&D and had what I feel were very good results. So good in fact that skill challenges became something very different for me than what they were said to be by the book. I very rarely run a skill challenge as X successes before Y failure; instead, I might set a number of rolls as being the limit to how many rolls are allowed during a skill challenge. For a quick arbitrary example, let's say I set the limit at 10 rolls. 10 successes out of 10 would lead to the best result possible; 0 out of 10 would be the worst result and then there would be a very different levels of success/failure in between. Alternatively I've also had the listed number of failures be how many failures are possible before no more rolling is allowed.
4E was not without lessons to teach me though. There are quite a few things which I learned from D&D 4E which I feel have made me a better DM. In particular, I think I have a better idea of how to organize my prep time. If I can stick with the topic of skill challenges, I'll also point out that I tried to bring part of them back into my GURPS games as well. I highly value the 'contest' idea which GURPS uses, but there have been a few instances in which I've started to use something somewhat inspired by skill challenges. Explaining it is something probably best reserved for PMs or a different thread though -simply because it would require explaining in more detail how some GURPS mechanics work and this doesn't seem to be the place for that.
In general, I think D&D 4th edition has a lot of really good ideas. I am just not always a fan of the implementation of the ideas. That makes me somewhat wary of how 5th Edition will turn out because I am afraid that the designers will take my dislike of parts of 4th edition as meaning I preferred an older edition's mentality and not understand that it was the implementation (and often mechanics) involved in bringing the idea to life which bugged. That being said, I would also say that one of my biggest hurdles with 4th edition was feeling as though the system was built around gaming & storytelling ideals which directly conflicted with my own ideals. In time, I learned to adjust my style, and I had fun after doing so (a lot of fun in many cases,) but -at the end of the day- I felt as though I never really got to run the kind of game I wanted to run.
edit: This is unrelated, but it's a thought which has been nagging at me lately as I've been considering my experiences with 4E more and trying to put a finger on what exactly about it bothered me at times. From the player side of the table I think I had a hard time buying into the game sometimes because I feel as though 4E is structured in a way (and has a playstyle) that rewards what I feel are bad tactics. There was something about playing a fighter and realizing that doing a suicide charge into a room and sucking all the enemies to me in a position which meant I was surrounded was a good thing which was somewhat jarring to me. I never really gave the idea much conscious thought until a few days ago, but I think it's been something that was rattling around in my subconscious. I do not expect hardcore realism from battlefield tactics when playing a game -especially a fantasy game in which magic and weapons which are not available in real life are available, but I think what I just said is a pretty good example of what I mean when I say that 4E was built around some ideals which conflict with my own ideals. This is something which translated over to the DM side of the table in such a way that it took me a really long time to get the hang of how a 4E fight would go by looking at the elements and pieces involved in the encounter.
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Friday, 27th July, 2012, 12:14 PM #146
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Thought that was clear/obvious...I was, apparently, wrong.
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Friday, 27th July, 2012, 12:35 PM #147
Johnny3D3D, thanks for the interesting and thoughtful reply.
When I talk about "gonzo fantasy", this is just the sort of thing I mean. And I can see how it could be jarring if you don't buy into those tropes. (And I think they're fairly deeply embedded in 4e's class and power design.)
I think that also helps me see what you would like about GURPS, which would play pretty differently in this sort of respect, I imagine.
Friday, 27th July, 2012, 12:50 PM #148
For example, your range assumes a "fluff vs crunch" contrast. And in the post I replied to you assumed that liking "crunch" is closely linked to wanting to win. But there is a playstyle which has nothing particularly to do within winning, and in which the "fluff vs crunch" contrat makes no sense. Almost by definition, that playstyle doesn't fit on your spectrum - but given that it is (in my view) one of the most natural playstyles to pursue using 4e, it is something that I think WotC needs to be looking at in the design of D&Dnext.
Friday, 27th July, 2012, 01:32 PM #149
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Yes pemerton...ya got me. Obviously my entire point was to include all possible attitudes and approaches/preferences to the game...except for yours...
How could I have been so unclear?! My apologies.
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I'd say that was true of 3rd Edition as well to an extent, but I was new to rpgs when playing 3rd, so I didn't notice, and I also feel as though 3rd was presented in a way which tossed a curtain over some of the same issues. They were still there, but I never really noticed they were. Though, now; as I try to play 3rd (or Pathfinder), I notice that there are many things 4th did 'fix.' Unfortunately, 4th also embraced some things I didn't like, so it turned out to be a mixed bag for me.
You mentioned 'gonzo fantasy.' One of the games which I had the most fun running was one in which I completely embraced the 4E outlook. It turned out in a manner which I would personally describe as some sort of gonzo blend of fantasy and sci-fi, but it was a lot of fun. Many of the players were upset when the game ended. One of the things I noticed during that game was that the 4E fiction doesn't fit the 4E mechanics very well. I built the image of the world I had with 4E's style in mind. I loved the 'Points of Light' concept showcased in the early 4E books, but -for me personally- I did not feel it was very well supported by 4E's mechanics. There are many who feel system does not matter and/or that crunch & fluff do not have a relationship; personally, I strongly disagree with that.


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- Caters to adults only
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In the hotel
- Free continental breakfast daily
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Beach sun loungers
- Beach umbrellas
- Kayaking on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Beach towels
- Computer station
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Number of buildings/towers - 6
- Year Built 2002
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Picnic area
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Iron/ironing board
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Sofa bed
- Sofa bed size single
- Premium bedding
- Balcony or patio
- Individually decorated
- Separate dining area
- Separate living room
- Separate sitting area
- Private bathroom
- Rainfall showerhead
- Shower only
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 32-inch flat-screen TV
- Satellite TV channels
- IPod docking station
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Microwave
- Stovetop
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Access via exterior corridors
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Special features
DiningTotara Lounge - This restaurant serves breakfast only.
Rarotonga Beach Bungalows, Rarotonga's small print
Also known as
- Rarotonga Beach Bungalows
- Rarotonga Beach Bungalows Hotel
- Rarotonga Beach Bungalows Cook Islands - Titikaveka
- Rarotonga Beach Bungalows Hotel Titikaveka
Transfers via required shuttle are required and must be arranged at least 72 hours before travel by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
For transfers, guests must contact the property 72 hours prior to arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of NZD 15 per person (one way)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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While the school has grown in size, it remains small enough to be a welcoming community that focuses on each child. Our small community also boasts a strong and loyal parent group who welcome and encourage the interests of new families. We also offer education programs for parents to help them understand the Montessori philosophy and how young children learn and grow.
From its earliest days in the hearts and dreams of a few parents, Litchfield Montessori School has grown into a vital and thriving home for the education of children and families. As a result of Mary Loyer's vision, more than three decades later, Litchfield Montessori School alumni care deeply about other people and the world. They work to discover extraordinary and individual ways to contribute to our global society. The Litchfield community is a better place because of its Litchfield Montessori School family, who value diversity, peacefulness, independent thinking, creative initiative, and life-long learning.
OUR MISSION: We are committed to serving the whole child, guided by the principles of Dr. Maria Montessori, dedicated to nurturing the child's love of learning, preserving the child's sense of wonder, encouraging independence and imagination, and fostering respect for our world's social and cultural diversity.