MI: Slang for breasts declared “dirty word” on cancer-awareness t-shirts



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"About two dozen students wore pink T-shirts to Mona Shores High School on Wednesday to raise awareness of breast cancer and to support one of their mothers, who is battling the disease. School administrators made them turn the shirts inside out.

The students’ hearts were in the right place; it was their choice of words that was objectionable, administrators said. The shirts read: ‘Save the Ta-Tas.’

‘The cause of breast cancer isn’t the issue,’ Superintendent Terry L. Babbitt said Friday. ‘But just because something is dedicated to a particular cause, it doesn’t give you a license to say whatever'

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Naughty British Mayoress

New arrivals in Britain from some countries -- particularly Muslim ones -- tend to be heavily welfare-dependant but you must not mention that

"A town mayor apologised yesterday after posting a joke on the internet comparing illegal immigrants to sperm because 'millions of them come in but only one works'. Sue Mills, 50, the Mayor of Torrington in Devon, posted the offensive joke on her Facebook page where it was seen by hundreds of people.

Several complaints were made about the offensive gag and Mrs Mills, who is also a district and town councillor, has now said sorry. She says she 'deeply regretted' making the joke...

One Torrington resident, who did not want to be named, said it was 'derogatory' and 'reflected badly on the town'. He said: 'I am just shocked that someone could write that given they are the mayor of the town.

'Even if this is a joke she needs to be reminded with freedom of speech comes responsibility. It reflects badly on Torrington that the mayor, in a prominent position, is expressing those views.'

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Freedom of speech frightens the Austrian establishment

Free speech rights to question the holocaust that are legally protected in the USA frighten conventional politicians in the Ostmark des deutschen Reichs

"A woman with 10 children who is nicknamed “the Reich mother” and has called for the right to question the historical truth of the Holocaust, is expected to win up to 25% of the vote in Austria’s presidential election next Sunday.

Barbara Rosenkranz, 51, is campaigning on an anti-immigrant, anti-Islam, anti-feminist ticket as the political heir to Jörg Haider, the far-right politician who died in 2008. Germany’s Central Council of Jews has described her political ascent as an example of the “terrifying shift to the right” in Europe.

A veteran critic of Austria’s laws criminalising Holocaust deniers, Rosenkranz had to sign a sworn statement that she rejects Nazism. Upon being asked if she believes the Nazis murdered millions of Jews, she gave the evasive answer that freedom of expression meant allowing people to hold “bizarre” opinions.

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Foxy the Fascist again

It's reasonable to condemn violence but Foxy wants to stop speech too:

"How should Republicans respond to Democratic calls for them to help end vandalism and threats of violence in the wake of healthcare reform's passage? Answer from Abraham H. Foxman:

The most effective response to the vandalism and threats of violence targeting political leaders would be for the senior leadership of both parties, Republicans and Democrats, to stand together on the same platform, at the same time, and insist that the insults and demonization that have come to characterize our political discourse stop immediately. Americans must be able to use political means rather than violence, intimidation, or threats to resolve policy differences.

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The ADL seems to think that Nazi methods are OK if the cause is right. That Hitler thought his cause was right just somehow seems unable to penetrate crazed ADL brains. With friends like the anti-Christian, anti-conservative, anti-democratic Foxy, Jews don't need enemies.

Why are the media allowed to prejudge some court cases and not others?

The heading on the story below was "Nazi guard breaks silence", where the presumption of innocence would require the heading: "ALLEGED Nazi guard breaks silence".

The whole thing is just a political show trial in the best Stalinist tradition anyway -- as the man has already been found "not guilty" in an Israeli court -- and if you think an Israeli court would be stepping lightly or incompetent in such a case you have a lot to learn

John Demjanjuk, a 90-year-old accused of helping to murder 27,900 Jews as a guard at a Nazi death camp, denied the charges today in the first statement since his trial began in November.

Mr Demjanjuk said he was "forcibly deported to Germany" where "false charges" were pressed on him, in a statement read out to a court in Munich by his lawyer, Ulrich Busch.

"I find it an unbearable injustice that Germany is trying to make me, a prisoner of war, into a war criminal with this trial," he said.

Mr Demjanjuk is standing trial on 27,900 counts of being an accessary to murder on allegations he was a guard at the Sobibor camp in occupied Poland. He denies ever being at any camp, claiming he is the victim of mistaken identity....

Since his extradition from the US last May, Mr Demjanjuk has been in a prison near Munich, again "as a German prisoner of war", he said. "I am again and again an innocent victim of the Germans," he told the court.

He was previously found guilty in Israel of being Ivan the Terrible, a particularly sadistic death camp guard at Treblinka, but released after the Israeli Supreme Court established they had the wrong man....

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Exactly HOW does a national day of prayer constitute the establishment of a religion?

Even Muslims pray, I gather -- and they are certainly not America's established church. Not yet, anyway.

"The National Day of Prayer, honored in the United States for more than a half-century, is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled.

In a 66-page opinion issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb said the holiday violates the "establishment clause" of the First Amendment, which creates a separation of church and state.

The opinion comes in a case filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based group of self-described "atheists" and "agnostics."

"The only issue decided in this case is that the federal government may not endorse prayer in a statute," Crabb said....

Within hours of the ruling, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee urged the Justice Department to "immediately" file an appeal. "The decision undermines the values of religious freedom that America was founded upon," Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Tex., said in a statement. "What’s next? Declaring the federal holiday for Christmas unconstitutional?"...

The National Day of Prayer was first established by Congress in 1952, with a more specific date for the holiday set in 1988. It is now observed on the first Thursday in May.

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Oh Oh! Bush=Monkey hilarious. Obama=Monkey unforgiveable

How many more times are we going to see this double standard? The logic is often obscure where political correctness is concerned but, in the circumstances, one has to suspect that offence is taken in one case only because the resemblance is seen to be real in one case only. This latest episode is from Australia

"The [conservative] Queensland Liberal National Party (LNP) has condemned the action of a member allegedly responsible for calling Barack Obama a "monkey" on Twitter during the US president's interview on the ABC.

The tweets, from an account allegedly belonging to Nick Sowden, a medical student at the University of Queensland, began just after 7.30pm AEST last night, during ABC TV's 7.30 Report with Kerry O'Brien.

"I'm not sure why they paid kerry to fly to america (sic), if they wanted an interview with a monkey surely a ferry to Taronga would have sufficed," one tweet said, referring to Taronga Zoo on Sydney Harbour.

"If I wanted to see a monkey on TV I'd watch Wildlife Rescue," said another.

LNP state director Michael O'Dwyer said the party did not tolerate such comments and would be looking into the matter. "I'm disappointed when anybody from the LNP makes comments that put the party into disrepute and of such a personal nature," Mr O'Dwyer said.

[Leftist] Deputy Premier Paul Lucas said the LNP needed to act immediately. "I think that sort of language is totally, totally unacceptable, to be saying that about people - whether they're the president of the United States or whether they're anybody else," Mr Lucas said. [I can't seem to find find any record of Mr. Lucas saying that the constant comparisions between President Bush and chimpanzees were "totally, totally unacceptable"]

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The kid was later expelled from the party over it.

A big difference between Southern and Northern European attitudes

The advertisement below would not raise a single eyebrow North of the Rhine

A Sequence featuring female buttocks in a TV commercial for Croatian tourism has been hastily removed after it sparked the ire of Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and women's rights groups.

Kosor declared the three-second sequence of a sunbathing girl "sexist" when the tourist board presented the ad to the government at the weekend. The 30-second spot had already been seen on CNN, BBC and other stations worldwide.

Women's groups also slammed the commercial as promoting "sex tourism".

Croatia is an increasingly popular tourist destination and millions visit the country's Adriatic [Mediterranean] coast every year.

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An odd thing: That looks like a British flag on the woman's bikini. The idea would seem to be that it's NOT about Croatian women.

"Loser" a risky word

We read:

"A Columbus, Ohio, teacher who wrote "loser" on a student's arm has resigned two days before she was due to face a disciplinary hearing on the matter.

Ms Butterfield, 28, said the 8-year-old boy found it funny when she wrote "loser" on his arm in orange washable marker.

Her account of the incident indicated that at no time did the child take her seriously. He left school that day with the word still on his arm.

Ms Butterfield's lawyer said she never meant to harm the student and now realised the joke was ill-conceived.

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No free speech for Marines?

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"A Camp Pendleton Marine has removed his Facebook page after his comments fueled a free-speech debate about whether troops are allowed to criticize President Barack Obama's policies while serving in the military.

Sgt. Gary Stein said he was asked by his superiors to review the Pentagon's directive on political activities after he criticized Obama's health care reform efforts and then was asked this week to talk about his views on the MSNBC cable TV channel.

Stein said his supervisor told him of his right to an attorney about the matter. He said he decided to close his Facebook page and review his military code obligations. He also contacted private attorneys who told him he had done nothing wrong.

"There's this illusion that when we sign our contract and voluntarily commit, that we lose our right to speak out," Stein told the San Diego Union-Tribune in a story published Wednesday.

The local American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement Wednesday that it has sent a letter to Camp Pendleton's commanding officer urging the Marine Corps to protect Stein's right to freedom of speech...

Stein, 24, a meteorologist for the base's 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said it was ire over Obama's health care reform efforts that pushed him to launch the Facebook page, "Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots," three weeks ago.

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At the Nuremberg war tribunal after WWII, it was held that the usual defence given by Nazi military personnel, Befehl ist Befehl (orders are orders), was not a sufficient justification for bad behaviour. Thus a right for military personnel to speak out against government policy would seem to be implied. The Obama administration would be in very bad company if it tried to rescind that

"Obesity" to be banned?

About time. It has been way over-used. It was once only used for grossly fat people, not people of middling weight

"Let's say you were carrying a few extra pounds -- would you rather be labeled "obese" or "fat"? City officials in Liverpool, England, evidently prefer the latter and are considering banning the word obesity from all official communications.

It's all because they feel that the word obese is too offensive, especially when it comes to kids. Officials at Liverpool's town hall would rather use the term "unhealthy weight" because it doesn't stigmatize overweight children as much.... "The idea is that obesity has a negative connotation behind it," he added....

Tam Fry of the obesity prevention charity the Child Growth Foundation certainly doesn't think so. "I can see where the children are coming from and the word carries a stigmatization but unfortunately some times schoolchildren have to be taught the realities of life," he told the Daily Mail. "If you have a problem, particularly when it's as serious as this, it needs addressing."

It's not certain whether the change will go through -- the proposal will be considered over the next few months -- but a spokesperson for the Liverpool city council insisted there would only be a subtle difference if it did.

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The term "unhealthy weight" is a bit nuts too. Anorexics have an unhealthy weight but they sure aren't fat. What's wrong with "fat", anyway? Too simple and not judgmental enough, I guess.

Funny that we are allowed to be judgmental about people's weight but are not allowed to judgmental about other things -- such as homosexuality. And, because of AIDS, homosexuality is a lot more likely to kill you than being fat is.

MD: Towson adjunct professor fired for use of racial term in class

He referred to himself as a "n*gger on the corporate plantation", evidently meaning that he felt underpaid for the work he did.

"A Towson University adjunct professor was fired last week after using a racially insensitive term in his art class.

Allen Zaruba, a local artist who had taught at Towson for 12 years, said he was discussing provocative works depicted in textbook chapters on the body and identity when he used the term. "I crossed the line," he said. "I made a terrible, terrible mistake."

Zaruba, who is white, said his black stepfather used racial terms freely and that "I never quite got the horror of the word." "But I will never use that term again," he said. "It is absolutely transgressive." "As soon as I said it, I thought, 'Lord have mercy,' " Zaruba recalled.

On Thursday, three days after uttering the remark, Zaruba learned he had been fired in a phone call from interim department Chairman Stuart Stein....

Adam Jackson, president of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a campus group that promotes social justice, said he didn't know the context of the incident but was intrigued by Zaruba's wording, which included reference to "a corporate plantation."

"I think that the university firing him on the basis of using a racially charged word is an excuse to escape criticism from across the university," Jackson said. "At worst, it could be a racially insensitive analogy, but to call the university a 'corporate plantation' would be a deep statement that directly challenges the politics of this university." ....

Despite taking responsibility for his error, Zaruba said his firing raises troubling questions about the power of political correctness in modern society. "Are we in for another state of McCarthyism?" he said. "We have to have compassion and realize that people are not perfect."

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Must not call a Muslim a terrorist

But you can call Christians "Taleban", of course. The following is from Australia, where Muslims coming out of law-courts routinely abuse film crews observing them. They hate being filmed.

"Footage of a Channel Nine cameraman calling the father of an Oakleigh riot suspect a "f---ing terrorist" was deeply disturbing, the station's Melbourne news director said today.

Michael Venus said cameraman Simon Fuller had been stood down while an investigation was carried out into the heated exchange outside Melbourne Magistrates Court, and his future would be determined in the next two days.

Fuller was filming 19-year-old Omar Amr and his father after the teenager was bailed on April 1. Fuller, along with other camera crews, followed the pair from the court and filmed them.

A dispute began when Fuller said what sounded like "f--- off" to the pair. Amr's father Gad in turn called him a "bloody idiot". Fuller then called Mr Amr a terrorist.

The slur infuriated the pair, who headed back to court to find police, according to a report on the ABC's Media Watch....

Venus said tempers were frayed outside the court, and people reacted in a volatile way....

Omar Amr is facing charges of incitement to riot, riot, affray, burglary, theft and criminal damage following the riot that damaged a Bob Jane T-Mart store in Oakleigh. [Officialdom is silent on the matter, in their usual way, but it would appear that the riot was an organized one, organized primarily by Lebanese Muslims]

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German Fascism lives on under the cloak of "Antifascism"

It's similar in Britain.

"A close friend of mine, Jost Bauch, who teaches general sociology and sociology of medicine as a part-time professor at the German University of Konstanz, has recently seen what he had of a career brought to a grinding halt.

Probably because of his non-leftist views, which stand out in the leftist and anti-nationalist German university system, Jost was never allowed to move beyond part-time work, despite his advanced degrees and multiple professional publications.

About a year ago, while lecturing on cultural tensions, Jost made isolated references in a lecture to Carl Schmitt, as an exponent of the friend/enemy theory of political association, and to Samuel Huntington, as a Harvard professor who had addressed “cultural clashes” in international relations.

Despite the stunning innocuousness of these references, “Wanted” posters, with Jost’s face on them, were soon plastered on the walls of the University buildings. The posters accused him of “cultural racism” for bringing up authorities who were seen as hostile to the multicultural project of local student organizers. On January 28, the student assembly called for his dismissal. Action toward this end is now under consideration by the university administration.

To make matter even worse, student “antifascist” groups have swung into action, lining up in front of Jost’s classes to prevent students from entering and threatening his physical safety.

The resemblance between these bullying fanatics and the Nazi youth who prevented university students from entering the classes of Jewish professors in the 1930s would seem too obvious to be missed.

The Dean of his division has openly taken the side of the student agitators (who were supposedly only protecting the German people against its “fascist past”.)

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The reference to Schmitt (1888 – 1985) was a bit incautious. Schmitt was a defender of the authoritarian state so initially got on well with the Nazis in the Germany of the 1930s but they eventually disowned him on the grounds that he was not sincerely antisemitic.

The thing that the students of today seem to have missed, however, is that Schmitt's defence of big and powerful government has in recent years attracted Leftists and they have "rediscovered" him despite his old Nazi connections. It is actually quite Leftist to quote Schmitt among political philosophers these days.

Hate speech from Democrat mayor against conservative black clergyman Isaac Hayes

Isaac Hayes is standing as the GOP candidate against black hustler Jesse Jackson in Illinois’ 2nd Congressional District next November and (black) Mayor Alvin McCowan of the Illinois town of University Park doesn't like it. He recently rushed into a private campaign meeting at a city-owned facility to order Hayes out. Hayes has issued the following statement about the matter (excerpt):

"I am saddened by the hate speech from a sitting Mayor who is more interested in the politics of personal destruction than apologizing for leaving his meeting to interfere in a unrelated, private event. Racial slurs such as “sellout” and “another Alan Keyes” have no place in the public discourse. This only reinforces my complaint that I was discriminated against because of my political views.

“My campaign continues to receive apologies from University Park village officials and support from the Mayor’s very own constituents. Both groups communicate their lack of surprise in his behavior, because they have also dealt with his thuggery.

“Out of respect to Congressman Jackson, I afforded him an entire weekend to denounce the actions of one of his major campaign contributors. Unfortunately, he has chosen to silently endorse political discrimination and, now, blatant racism.

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Details of exactly what happened when candidate Hayes was expelled from the campaign meeting (to which he had specifically been invited) here. Another account HERE

The Hayes campaign slogan is "Isaac for honesty". No wonder he does not go down well among the Illinois establishment! There is not much honesty in Illinois politics. And Hayes grew up on the South Side of Chicago so he knows all about it.

What the Euphemisms Tell Us

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"In the latest installment of politically correct, not to say Orwellian, language emanating from the Obama administration, the term "rogue states" has been sidelined in favor of "outliers." The switch was unveiled as part of the just released Nuclear Posture Review. States like North Korea and Iran, labeled "rogue" by the Bush administration, will no longer labor under that punitive adjective.

This is telling. While the administration insists that the full spectrum of new initiatives -- from the New Start treaty to the Nuclear Posture Review to the Nuclear Security Summit -- are aimed at containing the world's two most provocative nations, Iran and North Korea, the stream of euphemisms they've insisted upon sends the opposite message.

Rogue isn't even a particularly harsh word. When applied to individuals, it is frequently paired with "lovable." Regarding elephants, it suggests an animal that is out of control, but not necessarily vicious. Still, it was too severe for the Obama administration.

Outlier has no negative connotations at all. The American Heritage Dictionary defines it as "One whose domicile is distant from his or her place of business." The Macintosh computer dictionary adds a secondary connotation of exclusion from a group. So to employ the label "outliers" for nations that are, by any civilized measure, criminal is pusillanimous.

No doubt the leadership in Iran has also noticed that an administration that softens its words has also modified its proposed sanctions. Whereas once Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke of "crippling" sanctions, she has now climbed down to "sanctions that bite." Can annoying sanctions be far behind?

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Politically correct reaction to a harmless joke causes a man to suicide

Britain:

"A medical technician killed himself after being suspended from work after someone complained that he made a politically-incorrect joke about a black friend. Roy Amor, 61, who was devastated at the prospect of losing his job making prosthetics, shot himself in the head outside his house.

He was facing a disciplinary investigation after suggesting to the black colleague that he ‘better hide’ when they noticed immigration officers outside their clinic. It is understood that the man was a close friend of Mr Amor and was not offended. However, it was overheard by someone else who lodged a formal complaint.

Five days after his suspension, Mr Amor received an email about the incident from his employers, Opcare, a private company that provides prosthetic and orthotic services to the NHS.

A few hours later police found his body in the road outside his home near Bolton, Lancashire, after being alerted by a neighbour.

Sources told The Mail on Sunday that he left three notes, all of which mention Opcare, including one written outside his workplace at 5pm on the day before he died in which he describes his despair....

Opcare chief executive Michael O’Byrne admitted that Mr Amor had been suspended over the joke.

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Muslim hate crimes must be appeased

Contrast this story with the one above. This was an actual hate crime, not a joke. The guys below have apparently been offered community service as the only penalty -- and in San Francisco at that. Christians would have been locked up for good. Note that the overwhelming motivation of the prosecutiors seems to be to get an "agreement" with the offenders!

"Three Hayward men accused of shooting a San Francisco man they thought was gay with a BB gun in February delayed entering pleas Thursday, and prosecutors indicated that talks are under way to settle the case.

Shafiq Hashemi, 21, Mohammad Habibzada, 24, and Sayed Bassam, 21, are accused of shooting a 27-year-old man from their car at 16th and Guerrero streets in the Mission District on Feb. 26, then driving off. The man was hit in the cheek but not seriously injured.

Police arrested the three nearby and they allegedly confessed that they had come to San Francisco to shoot gay people, according to police.

Prosecutors have charged them with assault with a deadly weapon, negligent discharge of a firearm, hate crimes and attempted mayhem.

Judge Bruce Chan ordered entry of plea delayed until April 19 "to see if there can be some resolution that would meet all the interests of the communities and parties involved." "We've communicated an offer to the defendants, and they're considering it," prosecutor Victor Hwang said after the hearing.

According to Hwang, community service may be part of the settlement, though the final details of the possible plea deal are still being discussed.

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UK comedian Frankie Boyle slammed over Down syndrome rant

I have always seen it as cruel and in exceptionally poor taste to make fun of the disabled -- as being in fact a mark of a deficient sense of humor. I would have to hear the whole segment below, however, to decide whether the comedian really was making fun of the disabled. He does seem to have been generally offensive. Such behavior does a great disservice to comedy generally.

"One of the UK's most popular comedians Frankie Boyle has been rebuked by the mother of a Down syndrome child for making fun of the condition on his latest tour of England.

Sharon Smith, whose five-year-old daughter Tanzie has the condition, became upset as the Scottish comic made jokes lampooning Down syndrome, Sky News reports.

Star of current affairs comedy show Mock The Week, Boyle poked fun at Down syndrome haircuts, labeled those with the condition as "Mongoloids" and said they were destined for an early death.

He then spotted Ms Smith squirming in the front row at the Hexagon Theatre in Reading, southern England, and told her off for talking during his set. Ms Smith, 37, replied that she had personal experience with Down syndrome and was upset by his comments.

Recounting the incident on her personal blog, she said, "He tried to laugh it off: 'Ah, but it's all true isn't it? Everything I have said is true isn't it?' to which I replied 'No, it wasn't'. "He then went on to say that it was the most excruciating moment of his career but then tried to claw the humour back by saying we had paid to come and see him and what should we expect.

"To which I replied that I understood that and that it was my personal problem. He then said it was the last tour ever and that he didn't give a f--k."

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One hopes that it was indeed his last tour ever

More humorless and stupid "comedians"

This time from Australia

"He has been the butt of jokes by Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O for the past seven years and today Confidential can reveal newsreader Geoff Field has quit the 2DayFM breakfast show after being pushed too far.

Despite yesterday's attempt by the radio jocks to put on a united front, we hear Field walked after he was wrongly accused on-air of being drunk at a recent Austereo function, The Daily Telegraph reports. The gag, on the morning of March 26, was a joke too far and Field, who says he was not drunk, has not been on the show since.

He has switched to be the newsreader and entertainment reporter on Hamish Blake and Andy Lee's top-rating drive program, starting on Monday....

"He's off this show and on to that drive one and good luck to him," Sandilands said. "But really, once they leave they're dead to me."

Sandilands and openly gay Field had a major falling out last year after Sandilands abused him in a sustained on-air tirade, with Field complaining to Austereo's human resources department.

While things were patched up after mediation, the relationship has never been the same.

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