This blog is no longer linked by Decent Left rallying point Harry’s Place, presumably because they consider it to be Objectively Pro Fascist (it’s fascist to oppose extra-judicial executions and preemptive war these days. Didn’t you get the memo?). Instead, they now link to USS Neverdock, which consists exclusively of race hate propaganda and outright lies.
Fair enough. If my position on every major political issue had become clearly and completely indefensible, I’d probably start enlisting those few demented extremists who still supported my cause too…
Update: some of the above may be a little unfair: HP has come out firmly against extra-judicial executions.
As I am trying to win the "Apologist of the Year" contest, I’ll kinda-sorta stick up for HP as having got perceptibly saner over the last week and now setting out a position on police shootings not that far removed from your own. We need to look at the root causes.
Oh, dear, poor little boy done and lost his link from Harry’s Place. Maybe that should tell you something.
As for outright lies in regards to Phelps, you must have missed the update. You know the one with the pictures of Phelps and Al Gore at Phelps house, the one with the pictures of Phelps with Al, Tipper and Phelps wife, the update that shows Phelps ran for the governor of Kansas – as a Democrat!
Well since you missed it here it is
http://ussneverdock.blogspot.com/2005/07/america-deranged-funeral-update.html
"If my position on every major political issue had become clearly and completely indefensible…"
Gee, you think maybe that’s why Harry de-linked you?
Now, why do you suppose a "Decent Left rallying point Harry’s Place", linked to me?
Take off your blinders, stop relying on the BBC and the Guardian for your news, read with an open mind, what others are saying, follow the links in their posts to the proof of what they say.
It’s hard for anyone to admit that they are wrong, for your sake I hope you wake up and do so before it’s too late.
"before it’s too late."
Too late for what? Breakfast?
"It’s hard for anyone to admit that they are wrong"
What, you mean like someone who claims Phelps is left-wing? Idiot.
that "Apologist of the Year" cup is so mine. I just need to find a few more things not to condemn …
how was your Alan Whicker Man Festival, btw?
Marc – you are undeniably the biggest and most deluded cunt on the entire Interweb.
John – why do you keep linking him? He must have had more traffic from SBBS than every other non-foaming source put together.
This time it’s entirely to show up HP; I’m aware there’s no point in trying to embarrass Marc himself… (and the Phelps stupidity got Atrios-ed, so I suspect I’m probably only the second-biggest foamless referrer).
BTW, anyone know why I got more hits on Friday than ever before? Haven’t spotted a link from anyone super-big in the referrer logs (they’re with sitemeter and therefore everything pre-Monday has already fallen off the relevant page) or on Technorati…
The link calling you a fascist fellow-traveller in Scott Burgess’s comments. I think that’s a well-read site, but its a bit tenous.
That HP site seems to be referer-blocking: if I follow your link to it I get a 403, but reloading it gives me the page. That’s a sure sign that someone has got their knickers in a twist and has raised the Pettiness Alert to Serious Snit.
I think HP has always linked to USS Neverdock. Geras links to it too.
Some people sem to believe it’s the hyphens in the URL – apparently this makes blogging software think I’m trying to referrer-spam it. I don’t think HP are Steven Den Beste-petty enough to actually referrer-block SBBS.
It can’t be referrer-blocking because the link from the front page works; I would guess that your international standards non-compliant software introduces just one two many punctuation marks into the referrer URL.
No, by the look of it they’ve prohibited sending as a referrer any URL which starts
http://www.stalinism.com/shot-by-both-sides/full_post.asp
— rather explicit idiocy, I’d say, and therefore in keeping with the theme of that site. Presumably the intention is to prevent access from any link you’ve included in an individual post, rather than from the link on the front.
TBH I haven’t a clue why anybody reads the wretched thing — every time I’ve looked at it it’s been full of tiresome self-righteous carping. But to each their own, I suppose.
On the subject of links, you used to link to me under ‘butch brit blogs’ (or something like that). Have I offended thee?
All the links work fine for me.
SN – oops. I replaced my link bar with an export of my Bloglines subscription; I’ll add you to the latter now and to the former next time I have time to update it…
All the links work fine for me.
— does your browser perhaps not send the referrer header? Try following this link, and tell me whether there is a line beginning "Referer:" (yes, mis-spelled like that).
You can tell Harry and co have their roots in the sectarian left. The patterns of that behaviour persist. The holier-than-thou attitudes, the preachiness, the constant need to feel like they are the "real" left or the genuine article, battling to keep the flame alight. And of course the way they treat others on the left who don’t agree with them, with utter disdain and venom, with much more bile than anything directed at the right. That too a common attitude of the the battle weary groupuscules of the left, so much energy is expended on condemning traitors, heretics etc within the ranks.
I get this
Referer: http://caesious.beasts.org:48889/
Using IE
and this
Referer: http://www.stalinism.com/shot-by-both-sides/full_post.asp?pid=1285
using Firefox. So no, I suppose. Is that troublesome in anyway?
"You can tell Harry and co have their roots in the sectarian left."
Not just the sectarian left, in Harry’s case, but actual Stalinism, from which he derives his distaste for Trots and liberals.
Matthew — and in Firefox you can still click through to HP? Here if I send that referrer I get a prohibited response.
Is that troublesome in anyway?
Sending an "accurate" referrer header (i.e., one which states the URL of the page on which you clicked a link to reach the new page) is completely optional; it looks like you have Firefox configured to do so, but not IE (it is sending the URL of the requested page as the referrer).
I would expect clicking through from SBBS to HP to work for you in IE, but not in Firefox.
However, it looks like HP has tripped a bandwidth limit, so this may be a bit hard to test right now.
I would expect clicking through from SBBS to HP to work for you in IE, but not in Firefox.
Yes, that’s right. I should have been clearer. I don’t like Firefox so hardly ever use it. It was very useful in finding out passwords I hadn’t remembered for years.