Fun and games here in Oz this month.
You may have heard, we had an election, and guess what? No one won.
Our situation is even worse than the UK tho, there seems to be no conceivable grouping to establish a stable government. Neither the Government nor the opposition can form a workable majority from the rest [...]
Posts under ‘Politics’
Oz explained
He’s not the Messiah…
“People were once comparing him (Obama) to Jesus Christ. On the economy he seems more like Moses; wandering around aimlessly, blaming everything on the Bush.” –Tim Slagle
From here. H/T to commentator Laird on this Samizdata thread.
Catholic Priorities
Well we all know about the cover-ups of sexual abuse over decades we thought it couldn’t get any worse…
But wait it does. It would appear the Catholic church is happy to collude with the British government to cover-up terrorist priests.
Oh, well, at least on his up-coming visit you won’t be able to take a [...]
David Willetts is a Moron
David Willetts said leading universities should admit bright teenagers from poor homes with lower A-level results than their middle-class peers in an attempt to boost social mobility.
As students across Britain continue to battle for remaining university places, Mr Willetts said admissions tutors in subjects such as law and medicine should increasingly judge candidates on their [...]
Fight!
WASHINGTON – Conservative superstar Ann Coulter today was dropped as a keynote speaker for WND’s “Taking America Back National Conference” next month because of her plan to address an event titled “HOMOCON” sponsored by the homosexual Republican group GOProud that promotes same-sex marriage and military service for open homosexuals.
Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer [...]
Strange Days
What the hell is iDave playing at in resurrecting the career of Alan Milburn?
What the flying feckulence is a “social mobility czar” anyway?
And David Blunkett? The only man to ever leave politics to spend more time with someone else’s family.
And it was reported last night that former Cabinet minister David Blunkett could also [...]
Food Fascism
Restaurants, cafes and pubs could be forced to list the calories in every item on their menu under Government plans to tackle obesity*.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley wants the public to be made aware of exactly what they are eating in the hope that they will chose healthier dishes.
Presumably that will turn into an “or else” [...]
Utterly Shameless
Former British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who became infamous for claiming expenses for adult films watched by her husband, is standing for a plush job with the BBC.
Smith, 47, also said a London house owned by her sister was her main residence, allowing her to claim second-home allowances on her family home. She lost her [...]
Control Freakery
Oh for fucks sake, all these fucking worthless human rights crap. Now it’s going to be a ‘human right’ to fucking water.
When I’m dying of hunger and thirst in the middle of the next fucking drought, caused by all those white fucking NGO SUVs farting fucking CO2, it’ll be so fucking comforting knowing that the [...]
Out of the closet
“I don’t think the banks get it,” he said yesterday. “We are very worried about their behaviour. They are not acting in the national interest."
Well, there we have it. Vince Cable admits to being a Fascist, in the true and literal meaning of the term.
Straight out of the Benny M playbook.
Pig ignorant
"We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting the Nazis."
Yeah, wasn’t it impressive how the yanks took the lead during Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain?
This man is making decisions which will affect our lives for decades to come, but what d’you think, does this Alinskyite cretin know any history at all? [...]
Tomorrow belongs to them.
The “National Citizen Service” will bring together 16-year-olds from different backgrounds and around the country to become community volunteers and join in outdoor pursuits.
Picking up litter in a United Colours of Benetton manner then.
David Cameron has said that he hopes participation in the non-military, voluntary form of national service will become a “rite of passage” [...]
Apathy
Today iDave rolled out his idea for a Big Society or something. I don’t think he really seems to know himself. What little I could be bothered to glean from BBC news before I flicked to a doc on the Battle of Kursk is that it sounds ghastly, bureaucratic and will involve the hiring of [...]
Cuban hell
What do you do when your viciously detained kidnap victims don’t want to leave?
The Obama administration would quickly send home six Algerians held at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but for one problem: The men don’t want to go. Given the choice between repatriation and incarceration, the men choose Gitmo, according to [...]
Influence
The most influential revolutions in history, anyone care to give an opinion? To me? The expulsion of the king and the founding of the Roman republic in 509 BC, and the founding of the American one in 1776.
Any other offers?
