Her “big oil” money apparently ran out. /sarc She writes:
I received a strongly worded email today from a long time loyal reader complaining that he almost missed this request which I placed at the bottom of yesterdays post.
more…
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/03/an-offer-i-couldnt-refuse-jo-nova-gets-outfoxed/
I’ve sent my help along in addition to this post.
Leo, it is not that but these entertained comments,
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/03/climate-change-denial-and-the-holocaust-allusion/#comment-1396979
Poptech says: March 13, 2014 at 9:22 am
Poptech, you blew your cool and went ad hominem crazy…and lost a lot of respect in the process. Your comments were rightfully criticized and subsequently had to be edited. NOBODY wants to read that kind of juvenile rhetoric…and you owe JoNova an apology for your behavior.
Bought Jo some chocolate a couple of days before the offer to match, so went in yesterday and bought her a little more.
Mmmm, chocolate!
Yep, I also helped along Jo’s chocolate collection. I was happy to help when her last PC fell over and died and more than to help her now. If only she had access to all that mythical ‘Big Oil’ money sloshing about…lol. Jo is a credit to climate skeptics; she’s erudite, informed and always brings her humour to her writing. I really wish she’d hurry up and write us all a book, though!
Just made a little donation.
Dollars to the rescue!
Happy to see that several people here see and get what Poptech is up to. Shameful Poptech. Really shameful. You should be offering a heartfelt apology with your tail tucked firmly between your legs.
I’m donating.
Poptech says:
March 13, 2014 at 7:10 am
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You’ve really gone too far this time Poptech. Pull your bloody head in mate.
Poptech, please take that stuff elsewhere. As I explained to you privately, you are off the mark with Jo in your particular interpretation of her comment.
Leo Morgan says:
March 13, 2014 at 4:30 am
” So,I’d like to begin now with a ten dollar a month ongoing payment to Jo.
However, here’s the rub: I can’t work out how to set up an ongoing arrangement.
Advice from anybody would be much appreciated.”
You can set up a PayPal account (free for paying out) and instruct it to make a monthly stipend to Jo’s account. The account of your choice will be debited and you will be emailed each time. Great for me as my memory lapses come too fast and furiously now.
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I worked with a man for several years that was in Dachau. (He wasn’t a Jew. He was an Italian POW who had previously escaped from other camps before he was sent there.)
Ask yourself, Did she “entertain” those comments or just allow them? Maybe so they could be exposed?
Maybe she made a questionable or even bad call in allowing the thread to go where it did, but did she actually endorse what you are objecting to?
If all Anthony allowed was opinions he agreed with then where would WUWT be?
Don’t help if you don’t too, but cut her some slack and don’t attack if she may not be the enemy.
Jimbo, I take it you do not have Jewish family members and apparently you do not understand the severity of what I was criticizing either. I am not apologizing for criticizing the allowance of Holocaust denial / Neo-Nazi comments to remain. It appears I will have to handle this in other ways.
Jimbo and the rest did not see what Crakar posted before his comment was snipped not deleted and him banned. Instead my comments were censored.
Jimbo, Nissa, Baa Humbug what else is missing from this post by Crakar?
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/03/climate-change-denial-and-the-holocaust-allusion/#comment-1397167
Oh you don’t know… yet make rash judgements? Fascinating how he was still allowed to post and was not banned, yet my comments were censored.
Poptech, FO please. Go peddle your venom somewhere else
re:Mike Lowe says March 13, 2014 at 1:56 am
I just bought some chocolate via PayPal but was disappointed it was only a one dollar shipment. Should I have been able to change the sum to a larger one? Anybody know?
Easy enough to change the “1” to a “10”, then proceed to “log” into PP and complete the transaction … did just that a few minutes ago with total success …
Donation made. Yes: donation. A hundred quatloos!
I do not care about the laws of another country. It is my money to give, and if I think that Mr. Benjamin is better off in Jo’s pocket, that, to me, is free speech. [Although if questioned by the authorities, I shall claim that I only bought her some chocolate ☺. That’s my story, and I’m sticking with it!]
x x x x x x x x x x x x x
[PS: Poptech, some friendly advice: stick to what you’re good at. You are very good at compiling searchable information and references. But sometimes you get a little off-track, that’s all. ☹ ]
Done.
Sean so I take it you want an example of what Crakar posted? Here is the exact same chronicled list from a site I take it you approve of?
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t687830-7/#post10932149
dbstealey, my apologies for not taking these things “lightly” but like I said, I have Jewish family members.
Poptech says:
March 13, 2014 at 7:10 am
I’m not giving anything, I have Jewish family members.
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This was your first comment on the thread, it came out of nowhere.
Made me think………. where did that come from ?
Now that I sorta know where it came from, I think you are just trying to poison this thread.
Start your own blog, maybe then you might expel the bile, I hope so.
Jo used to send me emails like you do Anthony and she changed this, so I don’t often now go to her blog. Not because I don’t like the blog, on the contrary I thought it was great, just I am out of touch, and can not spare the time to contribute to you and local papers.
Poptech says: March 13, 2014 at 4:04 pm
That you elected to sully this thread in the first place with your petulant, juvenile, self-serving crap was bad enough. That you now want to double-down on your crap in suggesting that former supporters of yours must be holocaust-ignorant/insensitive because we don’t buy into your strawman crap is almost beyond belief.
This is NOT about JoNova’s “allowance of holocaust denial”. That is YOUR issue. OUR issue AND JoNova’s (among others) is your resorting to juvenile, persistent ad hominem name calling and your refusal to moderate that rhetoric despite pleas from supporters of yours (now considerably fewer) and Jo herself to do so. Your juvenile petulance resulted in compelling Jo to lock further comments in that thread.
Shame on you for that.
Were I Anthony, your initial post here would be removed as well as all responses to it.
Jim, do you believe Holocaust denial comments are appropriate and should have been allowed to stay? I had no idea that defending the legitimacy of the Holocaust could be construed as “juvenile” or “self-serving”. I have no qualms with being accused of calling those who make light of the Holocaust names – actually I relish in it. I wish my snipped posts over there were let through so you could read how I really feel. The fact that you are defending such behavior speaks to your lack of integrity not mine. Maybe if you had Jewish family members and personal friends who lost family to that tragedy would you begin to understand.
Gunga Din: “If all Anthony allowed was opinions he agreed with then where would WUWT be?”
It would be RealClimate.
Poptech: Get over yourself.
Poptech is way off base, Both he and his protagonist to Jo Nova’s thread had gone way off topic so both parties were snipped. But only the comments made AFTER Jo Nov wrote in-line to say the thread was not for debating the Holocaust. She made the point that she hasn’t studied the exact number of Jews killed in the various camps versus in transport, or in ghettos or at the hands of the Nazis, it was all an atrocity. Poptech got into a debate with another contributor about just how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and in Auschwitz specifically.
Jo Nova made the point that it was an atrocity, no matter how many Jews suffered. But the topic was not appropriate for discussion and if it continued, comments would be snipped. Poptech and his protagonist both had a number of their posts snipped.
Now it seems Poptech wants to claim censorship or worse, at Jo Nova’s blog site because his inappropriate blogs were sot shown.
Because of continued attempts to post material at that thread Jo Nova has removed the thread altogether! So we are now all the losers.
It does sound like Poptech has reason to be upset with the Holocaust, but he shouldn’t let that cloud his judgement regarding Jo Nova and her team of volunteer moderators.