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Many years ago, some of us oldies recall the excesses of
our Islamic guests after a
certain Salman Rushdie published a tacky little novel which poked fun at the
Religion of Peace. A fatwa was proclaimed against Salman Rushdie for daring to
mock Islam, and the Islamic community called for Salman Rushdie's execution. This was at the dizzying heights
of political
correctness and any of us who expressed nervousness about the behavior of
our excitable guests were quickly shouted down by
the academe,
the feminists, the
international socialists
and any of the factions generally associated
with leftist ideology. Even
television programs showing graphic female mutilation at the hands (well,
actually the knives) of members of the Religion of Peace were merely met with
tut-tuttings and vague mutterings about tolerance and the importance of
cultural relativism. Over time, of course, the proponents Religion of Peace realized that the
conversion of Western
countries to Islam required a smarter game. They appointed spin doctors to
assist the mainstream to avoid 'mis-understandings' about what Allah fan-bois
were actually saying. "Cut off the Kaffir's fingers one by one" apparently didn't actually mean any
such thing - it just meant "show your enemy your are strong". "The Kaffir must
die" actually meant "we want peace" (presumably after the Kaffir are all
dead). We were warned against literal translations of Islamic sermons, because
"the Arabic language is full of simile and metaphor". Apparently in Arabic it is impossible to say "the cat sat on the mat" without
including loudly shouting "Death to the Kaffir", or at least making references
to leaving the meat out. Arabic is indeed a strange and subtle language. But the Islamic spokesmen were there help us mere Kaffir through these cultural
difficulties, and to loudly proclaim "mistranslation" or (when that failed)
"out of context". One such spokesman is Keysar Trad. Some of the Kaffir have been rather critical of Keysar Trad over time, and recently
Keysar took 2GB Broadcaster Jason Morrison to court for defamation over
statements made on air. Apparently Keysar took umbrage to being called
'racist'. Unfortunately Keysar lost the case, and has to pay costs because the judge said .. well .. that he was racist. Oops. The president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Ikebal Patel, was 'surprised' and
commented: "I thought that what [Keysar] was saying was quite conciliatory". Maybe that's a translation for "he wasn't calling for the sudden and
painful death of the Kaffir for a change". Anyway, after playing the race card for all of his career, Keysar has just been trumped. Read'em and reap, Keysar.
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There is an childish school-boy Confusion joke to the effect:
Confucius say no such thing as rape: woman with skirt up run faster than man with trousers down.
This is offensive, silly and wrong of course. Its only real merit is its lack
of political correctness. That, and the fact that there are times when
the running away objection surely applies. Like when someone is running at you
with a jerry can full of petrol. Today's true story goes something like: 36-year-old (Aboriginal) Ronald Mitchell was (allegedly) threatening police
with a container of petrol and a cigarette lighter when he was tasered by the
police. 'No problem there' you might say, 'nothing like a few thousand
volts to calm the nerves, and create peace and harmony with the local
brudders', except for one thing: Ronald caught fire, and suffered third
degree burns to his face, arms and chest. Oops. Perhaps firing up a spark-plug on someone already dowsed in petrol is not
the smartest thing to do. Perhaps the Western Australian police force has
discontinued their policy of only recruiting the brightest applicants? Not so! Declared the West Australian Police Union. In fact a spokesman
appeared on our TV screens insisting the taser use was necessary because 'the
man was a threat to himself and the police felt they were themselves at risk'. Huh? Surely a fit, able bodied and intelligent (?) police officer can run faster
than someone carrying a jerry can and a cigarette lighter. Personally, I think I could do the 100 meters in 9.8 seconds in such a
situation, even when weighed down by a handgun, handcuffs, baton, radio,
notebook, taser and those gloves they use to do illegal cavity
searches. Actually I could probably even make pretty good time in full riot
gear if someone were chasing me with a jerry can and a cigarette lighter. So it really comes down to the police setting someone on fire because there
was a risk of him .. well .. setting himself on fire. What ever happened to 'Serve and Protect'? This is actually a reflection of the attitude of the police force, which is a
reflection of attitude of The State. It is acceptable to use any kind of force
to prevent 'self harm', even if the harm is greater than any self inflicted
kind. Enforcement of any kind of victimless crime follows the same pattern: if
someone is hurting themselves, hurt them even more to stop them! Because they
have no right to damage State Property! Remember: The State owns you, it is not there to be your friend.
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| You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. | |
There are some organizations that really won't let their members leave. The Mob comes to mind. Scientology too. And Islam. But today lets talk about citizens of socialist countries - like The People's Paradise Republic of China. You may take out citizenship of another country, but your mind, body and soul remain the property of The Collective. If you are born in China, you are Chinese. Which creates a bit of an issue for those who wish to take out Australian citizenship, and then represent Australian companies in their negotiations with China. Like Stern Hu for instance, born in China, and granted Australian citizenship in 1994. Things can get particularly problematic when these people stand in the way of the Chinese government's acquisition of strategic foreign resources. Like in the failed buy-out of Stern Hu's employer, Rio Tinto, for instance. Beijing was furious when the attempt to increase Chinese control of the major resource company was thwarted by a mixture of political and economic events last month. So furious in fact that they smashed into the Rio Tinto offices, helping themselves to Rio Tinto's paper and electronic files. Apparently this made Rio Tinto guilty of stealing 'Chinese state secrets', so they also arrested Stern Hu, and several other Rio Tinto employees. The cynics are claiming that this is a deliberate attempt to humiliate Australia over the rejection of the Rio Tinto bid. So Kevin ('I speak Chinese, you know') Rudd is talking tough on the issue, and warning the Chinese that countries the world over are observing how they behave in business dealings (and by implication evaluating potential Chinese business partnerships accordingly). Rudd's words are for Australian domestic consumption. He knows that the real message from Beijing is to any Chinese who might be considering helping the White Devils in dealings with the Chinese government:
You still belong to us. Loyalty to the White Devil is disloyalty to China. Disloyalty to China is treason. And you will be punished accordingly.
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| Afghan business opportunity | |
Opinion is split on whether
the Taliban used to allow
opium to be grown
in Afghanistan during
their mad reign. While fascist control freaks invariably want to control or
prevent the use of drugs by their subordinate population, opium was also a nice
little earner, allowing the islamicists to continue to arm themselves via an
income of US dollars. What is agreed though, is that opium production is flourishing in Afghanistan
under the not-so-watchful gaze of US troops. With heroin hitting over $US100
per gram on the Streets of San Francisco, growing a few poppies looks like a
far more more attractive prospect than herding goats. Previously, when confronted with a poppy farm, the US marines adopted a .. well
.. a US marines approach, and demolished the poppies. It finally occurred to
someone that destroying someone's crops while presenting yourself as champions
of Freedom was a tad
hypocritical, and wasn't making friends in the local rural community. Richard Holbrooke, U.S. envoy for Afghanistan is quoted "Eradication is a waste
of money". What? Next they'll be telling us
the War on Drugs is
unwinnable! So how do you wage a war on drugs if you can't destroy opium poppies? Well, if
you thought the old policy was confused, the new one is bizarre. They are no
longer going to destroy opium crops. They are going to pay opium farmers to NOT
grow opium, and crack down on their buyers. It's not clear whether someone who doesn't grow 10000 poppies gets paid
more than someone who doesn't grow only 5000 poppies. Perhaps people
can start out not growing 100 poppies, and gradually grow their
business to not growing thousands of poppies. Confused? Well .. apparently growing opium and then selling it is
okay, but buying it
is evil and deserving of
severe punishment. But don't 'addicts' (victims) buy drugs, and don't
'pushers' (perpetrators) sell drugs? Why does it work the other way
around for Americans? I guess Americans really are special! Generally, the leftist mindset dictates that people are evil if
they employ someone to do something.
- A worker who knowingly violates safety procedures is a victim, but the
employer who repeatedly trained him in the correct procedures, and urged him to
follow them is a perpetrator.
- Asking for more money is righteous if you are employee, but exploitative if
you are selling goods for profit.
- A police officer can violate someone's rights, and hide behind 'just
doing my job', but his employer 'society', is to blame.
But sometimes inexplicably, it works the other way around.
- Someone who sells drugs (a 'pusher') is a perpetrator who deserves gaol but the people who
employ him (the drug takers), are victims who are entitled to tax-payer funded help-programs.
- People smugglers are evil people who should be imprisoned - but the people who
employ them (the asylum-seekers) are victims who deserve the rights of
welfare, free health and citizenship.
Confused? There is a hidden rule: the person who is more hardworking and successful is
is always the perpetrator. Obviously. It's called the tall poppy syndrome. Best understood through an opiatic haze.
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| Unbreakable! | |
Westerners have long criticized China and the quality products made in the
People's Paradise Republic, but those critics should be silenced by news from a
Shanghai building site. A 12 story building fell over and stayed intact! How many Western buildings do that?! Hmm?! This is proof that countries with big Socialist governments produce high
quality products that mere running-dog lackeys of the military-industrial
complex (er .. that's us, Dear Reader), could only ever hope to emulate. The inhabitants of the neighboring identical structures on the same site
are also very happy, knowing they are living in such solid structures.
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| The trouble with censorship is **** **** **** | |
For anyone who has been in a coma over the last few weeks, there is some
political upset in Iran. Some Muslims pretended to set up a democratic government. Some Muslims objected
to the farce and started to protest in the streets. Some other Muslims didn't
like the protests, and so started shooting them. Or maybe it was the first
bunch. Or something. This of course is markedly different to every other upset in the Middle East.
And before you all say "of course it's different - this is one is a struggle
between freedom and oppresion, between good and evil", well think again. Actually it's just different because of cell phones. Iran is a wealthy country
(compared to most of the other poverty stricken Islamic cess-pits in the
world), and protestors and passers-by have cheapo cell phones, which do two
interesting things which conventional phones don't. Firstly, they do texting, so written reports of bloodshed and oppression can be
thumbed out in glorious 160 character sound-bytes (er .. I mean text bytes).
Secondly, and more importantly, they have cheapo video cameras in them.
Video cameras which can actually record the bloodshed in even more glorious (if
low resolution) color. Humanitarians all over the world were outraged by the youtube vidoe of a murder of a pretty young
girl called 'Neda', shot through the chest by government forces, and bleeding
out of her mouth and nose as she died on the street. Then we learned that the Iranian government was using technology supplied by
Nokia and Siemens to detect 'subversive activity' on the internet, and the cell
phone network. And they used it to censor data and shut down the protests.
Naughty Nokia and Siemens. Now Slashdot reports that two US senators (Schumer and Graham) want to punish
Nokia and Siemens for providing that technology. Apparently supplying governments
with the technology to restrict internet access is an evil thing to do. Funny thing is, there are many governments with that this kind of technology.
Including the US, and including Australia. In fact Uncle Kevin is part way through an
internet
filtering trial which would stop us mere citizens from accessing 'unwanted'
material (so 'unwanted', apparently that we wouldn't want to access it anyway). Are they willing to punish multinationals for selling that technology to
Australia as well - or just
to Axes of Evil? Selling internet censorship technology must be only evil if it it is sold to
bad governments, not to good governments. Because we all know that the likes of
Uncle Kev would never abuse their power. Remember: Other governments are evil, but YOUR government only wants what's good for you.
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| New government mascot | |
Every intellectual Leftist is well aware of the faults of their government. The
endless whining and bitching about what the government should
and could do features highly over the morning latte. But like a bitter
wife complaining about a dead-beat hubby who she refuses to divorce: all would
be better if only hubby was nicer to her and had more money and power. The
answer to government failure is always the same: bigger and more powerful
government will solve the problem. There are two recent laughable examples of this belief. And while they don't
actually involve the four riders of the Apocalypse (pestilence, plague, famine
and war), they do involve plague and fire. The first example was the political stumble from Queensland's Premier, Anna Bligh. On
the threshold of a swine-flu epidemic she suggested that people might like to
stock up on food. Common sense suggests that a few extra tins of soup and some
dried milk powder might be a good thing to keep in the back of the pantry. But there was an immediate outcry at the mere suggestion. Apparently people
would panic. And in the panic they would buy, well .. food. And then the shops
would run low on food, and then that would cause even more panic and then
people would stock up on even more food, and then the children would starve
(apparently because there was so much food about), and the dead would walk the
earth, and .. well .. it would be better just to make people feel safe. Of course if she had stuck to her guns and there had been mass scale food buying,
several things would have actually happened.
- People would have ended up with a stock-pile of food, and be more prepared for an emergency.
- People would have realized how fragile supply mechanisms are in the short term.
- People would have realized how robust supply mechanisms are in the longer term.
- People would have realized how helpless The Gummint is to do anything about it.
All of which would have undermined people's confidence in the Gummint. So she
'clarified' her statement to say that she had only meant 'a day or two worth of
food'. Right. The second example was the number of calls which were ignored during the
Victorian bush fires. Some 80% of calls to the 000 emergency number went
unanswered on the day. Apparently people who's houses were being engulfed in
flame were ringing 000 emergency in the belief that the Gummint would (or even
could) come and rescue them. Why would anyone think, as their homes and all
their neighbours' bush homes burned, that the Gummint fairy God mother type
force .. er .. thing would magically appear and protect them from Mother
Nature's fury? Apparently they believed that spending 20 minutes on hold to the
Gummint was better than spending 20 minutes protecting themselves and
their families from dying. And die they did. Clearly the Gummint is a more powerful force than Mother Nature. Or it would be
- all they need to do is to create a new law. Right? Well actually, people's faith in the government kills them.
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| Games of chance! | |
There is an old joke about the Rear-admiral's vice being the Vice-admiral's
rear, (and the Vice-admiral's rear being the Rear-admiral's vice). But in the
case of Rear-admiral Geoff Smith, his vice seems to have been of a quite
different nature. Apparently the chief executive of Sydney Ferries made some
$237,000 worth of questionable purchases on his corporate credit card. Now, all of us who have a corporate credit card know the score. The card is a
bit of a perk. You can make a few questionable purchases on the card, and
effectively avoid a bit of income tax. Think about it - you make a few grand of
purchases on the card - a few taxi fares, some boozy lunches, a new set of
clothes, and even the occasional interstate trip, and these quietly get charged
to the plastic, with the silent approval of The Boss. The money is charged to the company (your employer) instead of having to be
paid as bonuses. You end up better off because you don't have to pay income tax
on the money (it shows up as a company expense, not taxable income), and your
employer doesn't have to pay payroll tax on the money. Every one ends up better
off. Everyone except for Wayne Swan that is, and let's face it - he'd just use
the money to lend to his used-car-selling mates anyway. So The Corporate Card is a functional tool in tax minimisation, as well as
being a powerful symbol of status and trust. Trust, that is, that you won't
over spend on school fees, alcohol, furniture, trips to the theatre and
overseas trips for the wife - like the Rear-admiral did. His excuse was that
"No one told me I shouldn't", and that he thought that using the cards for
personal expenses was "an entitlement". Many public servants claim to have a strong sense of 'social justice'.
Apparently it's not as strong as their sense of entitlement. Of course it's one thing for a private company to give a little extra to a
loyal employee. It's quite another for those in government to give a little
extra to their mates. That's why the public service has much stricter
guidelines about employee conduct than the mere public who pay their wages.
The endless (and expensive) paperwork, the double and triple checking that goes
into just buying a paper clip - it's all for the common good to protect your
taxes. But where were the checks and balances on the Admiral's vice? Apparently no-one
was taking up the Vice-admiral's rear. Apparently no-one told them they should.
Or maybe the vice goes further than the Rear-admiral? Or maybe privatization would mean that at least it wouldn't be the tax-payer's problem.
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| Celebrating patriotism! | |
Indians are taking over! Not the indigenous North American variety, but the
subcontinental variety. It will come as no surprise to some that over two
hundred thousand Indian 'students' are enjoying Australian hospitality. This
wouldn't have been newsworthy several weeks ago, but apparently some are enjoying
it less than others. Some have found themselves the victims of assault. The voice of reason might suggest that any population of two hundred thousand
is bound to have members who find themselves the victim of assault. But, as the
good Chairman pointed out, 'the voices of the many will drown out the
voices of the few'. And two hundred thousand voices can drown out a lot of
reason. Especially when they are helped by a Leftist political agenda. Suddenly the immigrant groups are up in arms, and are back to branding
Australians as racist, and reminding everyone about the White Australia Policy.
Apparently there were gangs of shaven headed white supremacists roaming the
streets seeking ethnic victims. Then some of our Indian guests got their mates to start burning Australian
flags back in India, and even started burning effigies of Chairman Rudd. .. well, even a fool is now and then right by chance, but burning the
Australian flag? Fair shake of the sauce bottle! But a few attacks later, a much maligned and indignant police force came out
and reported the whole truth - that the attacks are not by shaven headed white
supremacist hate groups, but by Lebanese gangs. Oops. Whether the Indians are over-represented as victims of crime is not really
clear. And whether they are specifically overrepresented as victims of Lebanese
violence is not clear either. In fact, the suggestion that Lebanese gangs would
favour Indian victims (over any group) would be tantamount to accusing them of
racism. And since racism is such a bad thing, the suggestion itself could be
construed as racist. And that would never do. Modern political correctness only allows someone's ethnicity to be identified
when they are victims, not when they are perpetrators. Acts of violence are
never perpetrated by an individual against an individual - they are perpetrated
by mainstream society, and are against a minority group. Apparently the
individual victims don't matter - just that fact that they belong to an
identifiable minority group. The identity of the perpetrators doesn't matter -
they are part of the 'racist' (and predominantly white) society. Of course the possibility that two immigrant groups are waging a religious war
on Australian soil goes quietly unstated. It wouldn't support the underlying
agenda for an open-door immigration policy. Everyone loves sacred cows, but surely we don't need to import any more of them.
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Another day another fatal dog attack. Your ABC reports
that a three year old girl was mauled to death by pet dogs in the the NSW
Riverina. According to everybody's
ABC, the local community is
(collectively I presume) shocked that this happened. How could anyone be shocked by a dog attack? I mean - if you were the actual
victim, and suddenly found yourself having your flesh ripped off faster than an
Abu Ghraib inmate
you might go into shock. But shock is normally regarded as a state
of great surprise. How could people possibly be surprised at another vicious
dog attack? Haven't enough children been killed, maimed or permanently scarred by vicious
dogs for people to understand that keeping large pack animals around small
children will result in many of them being eaten alive? Apparently not. Dogs are of course, much like Leftists.
- They are supposedly loving, warm and only want to be friends with everyone.
- They are cowards when they are alone with something bigger and more powerful than they are.
- When they mob together in sufficient numbers they attack anything and everything weaker than they are.
- They have no responsibility for anything they do.
This, of course, qualifies them to be 'man's best friend', or maybe even 'friends of the Earth'. And in this case a woman looking after another someone else's children decided
to leave the
meat out. And the pack of cute little lovable doggies helped themselves. The woman herself claimed to be 'in shock' (no point in letting the police
interview you until you get your story straight eh?). Her husband was later
quoted on the ABC as saying
that it was just an accident, and was no-one's fault. Presumably 'society' is to
blame. Somehow. Again. It might baffle some that people would want to keep such animals as pets - in
their houses, around their children (or in this case around other people's
children). But the reason is actually quite obvious. There is a popular notion that the Left need peace, tranquility
and calm. They don't. In fact, they crave conflict, confrontation and
aggression. That's why they surround themselves with it.
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