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| Cruising downtown Jakarta | |
With Australia's
F-111s looking more and more like a relic from the last century, Australia's
air-force faces a gap in its defenses after their scheduled retirement around
2010. The gap now seems to destined to be filled by some air-launched cruise
missiles. Missiles which can be launched safely from International airspace and
take out pinpoint targets in downtown Jakarta. Always quick to scream victim, the Indonesian government has
hit back. Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Marty Natalagawa is quoted on
the ABC as
We may legitimately ask against whom would such a weapons system be targeted.It's a legitimate question from our part and therefore we have some question
mark about the wisdom of this latest decision.
and he has accused Australia of a 'lack of consultation'. It would seem that our Muslim neighbors are appalled at
the prospect of a regional arms race. Or maybe not that appalled on closer
inspection. The Indonesian air-force recently took delivery of two soviet Su-27s, which
can out-maneuver, out-distance, and outfight Australia's FA-18s. And did our
northern friends 'consult' with Australia about this purchase? Apparently sovereign nations only
have a duty to consult with their neighbors about weapons purchases if they are predominantly
white. Australia faces the prospect of being bombed without being able to bomb
back, and our northern members of the Religion of Peace are horrified
that Australia might take action to prevent that situation. Indonesian officials were similarly horrified recently that some
one third of Australians believed that Indonesia posed a risk to Australia,
and were concerned about the prospect of invasion. Presumably it never occurred
to them that thirty years of persistently cultivating public hatred of
Australia might also have an effect on the psyche of Australians. Just one of
the many disadvantages in not being able to control the Australian media. But
there's a simple fix to that .. Indonesia of course has given a clear indication of how seriously they take
the killing of Australians with the acquittal of one of the Bali bombers.
Balanced and sane people generally prefer to subscribe to explanations
involving ignorance over conspiracy, but sometimes
that's a hard thing to do. Charging bombers with sexy new untested,
retrospective terrorism
laws without throwing in mundane changes like murder, reckless endangerment
and illegal parking is pretty suspicious. The bombers look like being acquitted
on the sexy new charges, and double jeopardy rules may prevent them being
retried for the same crime. But the Indonesians are not without sympathizers in Australia. The ALP have always been desperate to
please the Indonesians - Paul (foul-mouth) Keating seemed to take orders
directly from his business partners in Jakarta, and the tradition continues to
the current day. Kim (Fatboy) Beasley has been wheezing that Little Johnny
hasn't been 'explaining our position' to the Indonesians to their satisfaction. But Little Johnny's one-liner said it all on this occasion:
Our neighbors understand our position perfectly well.
Absolutely. It's enough to make the ASIO's pro-Jakarta lobby stir from their
tea-breaks.
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| Sick as a Maddog | |
The good thing about generational change is that it allows evolution. Humans
strive for improvement, every generation thinks they can do better than the
previous one and often they are right. And so it is with governments. Old Prime
Ministers eventually die (or become Asylum Seeker advocates)
and a new younger, invigorated and fitter generation replaces them. Well
.. sometimes. Desperate True Believers hailed Simon Crean's leadership appointment as
generational change, which was a bit of a joke - he is only 10 years younger
than Little Johnny. But with Mark (Maddog) Latham they actually got
it. Unfortunately for The
Left, they may have embarking up the wrong tree if Maddog is too sick to do
the job. Maddog is in hospital with pancreatitis, from which it is 'highly likely' that
he will make a 'complete recovery'. At 43, Maddog is already showing signs of
being worn out. And at retirement age, Incumbent Johnny is still going on his
daily power walks at a pace which must make Labor heavyweights Maddog and Kim
(Fatboy) Beasley break into a collective cold sweat. The dog-eat-dog world of politics is nasty, unforgiving and stressful. Maddog
is wearing a hospital gown, and Little Johnny is still wearing his fixed
election campaign smile. He suddenly has more to smile about.
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| Conflicted Mike | |
Confession is good for the soul - at least for Catholics and public servants. Mike
Scrafton, conflicted former public servant, has come out of the closet and
claimed that he told John (hear-no-evil) Howard in the 2001 election campaign
that there was no evidence of children being thrown overboard - shortly after
Little Johnny made the original claims. The conclusion: Honest Johnny must have
lied! Of course this raised the question of why Conflicted Mike didn't actually
mention this three years ago, but Mike was a senior bureaucrat and is
well versed in the art of self justification. He handled the
less-than-totally-brutal 'let me play devil's advocate for a moment'
questions on the ABC's 7:30
report with a quick slither - he had obligations as an Australian public
servant, and had to meet them. Apparently those obligations didn't include
telling the truth. So seven months after his retirement, and in the lead-up to the following
election, Conflicted Mike has found his conscience, and is doing the media
roadshow to help him get in touch with his newfound honesty. Not that Honest John can claim to be squeaky clean here. While only the
true-believing leftie
would claim that Johnny invented the story about children overboard, only the
staunchest conservative would deny
that Johnny hadn't turned down his hearing-aid when people around him started
to seriously question the original reports. The defense department said that
children were thrown overboard, and then changed their minds. Johnny wasn't
about to let public service incompetence cost him the 2001 election. No wonder that Little Johnny hates public servants so much - and this in turn
could explain why they hate him back. And apparently every ALP supporter knows that this incident lost them the last
election. Which is funny, because no-one has actually said that If I had known that the asylum seekers hadn't
actually thrown their children overboard, but instead had merely sunk their own
boat (effectively dumping everyone into the water), I would have voted ALP! These people are a bit like the man-friendly feminist. Lots of people know
that they exist but no-one has ever met one. And the ALP's solution to all this is to reduce accountability in the
public service - install fixed tenures to prevent the government of they day from
sacking senior public servants. Examples like Conflicted Mike only serve to
demonstrate the need for an 'independent' Public Service. If Conflicted Mike
weren't accountable to the government, there would have been no need to conceal
the truth for all this time, and the truth would have been known all along. Of course! As soon as we give someone absolute power, they won't feel the need to
lie cheat or steal, and they will rule us all with total benevolence. Utopia is just an election away. But after this little scandal, Johnny
seems unlikely to call it anytime soon.
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| Glad we cleared that up | |
Another follower of the Religion
of Peace has fallen out of favor with Australian authorities over religious
rights. Supermarket stacker and part-time terrorist-wannabe, Zeky Mallah,
apparently thought that shooting Australians came under the banner of
'religious freedom', and has faced court charged with planning a terrorist attack. Many people feel their boring life needs a change. And when normal people feel
they need the excitement of making fools of themselves in front of large crowds,
they go and and audition for Australian Idol before taking a lashing from the
judges and slinking back to merely singing in the shower. No-one can come in
and tell you how awful you sound if you lock the door. But the attention seeking Zeky apparently felt the need to sing for an
undercover federal agent posing as a journalist - and even sold him a video of
himself detailing his plans. Bad call, Zeky - you would have been better off
singing some reworked Cat Stevens songs. Zeky, quoted several months earlier as insisting he had 'no violent thoughts',
certainly seems to have gotten in touch with his inner anger. Apparently he
was planning to kill two agents in an effort to make Australian authorities go
'softer' on Muslims. And wouldn't that have succeeded! Zeky is innocent until proven guilty of course, but even so, this sings volumes
about the mindset of some people. Violence is the answer, and even if violence
will quite obviously achieve the opposite of their desired goal, they don't
care. Presumably violence is not a means - it is purpose in itself for many
people. So the next time you see an angry young man stacking shelves in the local
supermarket with "I SLAM" written on his head-band, do your bit for cultural
integration - encourage him to audition for Australian Idol. It's the way
people in civilized countries make fools of themselves in 2004. This jihad
martyr stuff is just soooo 2001.
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| Not my problem | |
Swinging voters typically shift uneasily when the subject of nuclear waste is
mentioned. Pretending that you are environmentally sensitive while leaving your
great-great-great-great-grandchildren your nuclear waste is a hard thing to
reconcile (though no greater than many other popular forms of self deceit). And if
it means basking in a centrally heated radioactive glow or shivering under
candle-light eating cold porridge, people's true nature will shine through. The left, normally the source
of the most obvious contradictions in position, are relatively robust on this
issue. Faced with the choice of flooding the world with melting antarctic ice
from burning fossil fuels, or gracefully mutating from radiation exposure their
answer is 'neither!' They would prefer that we all sit in dark and shiver. For some time, the federal government has been trying to make a decision 'for
the common good'. If we are going to have a nuclear program, we have to do
something with the waste, and if we are going to have a waste-dump, then it has
to be in someone's back yard. Some one (or some state) has to make the
sacrifice for the collective good. South Australia, host to British nuclear
tests in the 1960s, seemed like a good bet (what's a few more kilo-rads between
mutant Aborigines?), but this proposal went south when the federal government's
forcible attempt was foiled in court. So in another strategic move worthy of a master politician, Johnny
(not-my-problem) Howard has simply announced that each state must look after
their own nuclear waste. Of course every state government is a Labour government at this time,
so he's happy to let the lefties can squabble with each other up to (and
beyond) the coming election. Most of Australia's nuclear waste is generated at Sydney's Lucas Heights
reactor, and if Bob (true believer) Carr wants to dump it in the just desserts
of South Australia, he will have to negotiate with Mike (also) Rann, and will
have to offer suitable compensation for the inconvenience. It's not exactly a free
market solution, but it's a lot closer than Johnny (i-know-what's-best)
Howard's solution - or is it? Johnny also suggested that Australia might .. er .. unsell her nuclear
waste to other island nations. Bob (watermelon) Brown has
suggested that the ecological and economic wasteland Nauru might be willing to give
asylum to Australia's rejects, but he wasn't speaking in glowing terms of
Johnny's Nuclear Pacific Solution. Clearly Green (but-not-glowing) Bob thinks
that the democratically
elected government of Nauru is not capable making a decision in the interests
of their own people. He does have a point. History is kind of on his side in this case. Nauru is not
a strong advertisement for government control (local,
foreign, democratic or otherwise). But that doesn't mean that turning the
island into nuclear waste-dump wouldn't be a bad thing for the 10,000
impoverished Nauru inhabitants. Dirty little secrets frequently offer
entrepreneurial opportunities and first world nations are
willing to pay quite handsomely to dispose of their dirty little problems. The
Nauru could become a shining beacon of hope in a new clear age.
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| Whose side are you on? | |
The leftist mindset is
nearly always opposed to building walls to keep people out (and often against
building anything at all). The leftist solution to any kind of conflict is to
force the feuding parties into close proximity so that familiarity can breed
love and mutual respect. They are ignorant of the fact that the option of
disengagement is at the core of civil society - that no-one can initiate force if everyone has the option
of disengagement. It is no coincidence that Australia's
government-employee infested capital (Canberra) forbids its citizens from
putting fences in front of their houses. Even picket fences (Little Johnny's
symbols of suburban utopia) are banned by the hard-core local hand-in-pocket
government. Boundryless real-estate is a powerful reminder that your land is
their land, and that your wealth is their wealth. You must not disengage
yourself from the collective. Resistance is futile. If the walls are to keep people in of course, the situation
changes. Leftist governments usually need
walls to keep their populations imprisoned, and then they become the darlings
of the left. But in societies built on capital and hard work,
walls are generally bad - because they prevent theft. Maybe this explains why there is so much opposition to the wall currently
being built in the Middle
East, where a local tribe, unable to get on with any of the
neighboring tribes, has decided to build a wall to to keep out the others. Keeping the suicide bombers on their own side of the wall is a pretty good
approach to security, but nothing in life ever runs quite to plan. One would
have expected organizations such as Suicide Bombers Inc to have
objected to the wall (pole-vaulting is difficult wearing a 40Kg explosive
vest), but the mouthpiece of the world's largest public
service, the International Court of Justice, has objected too. The ICJ
ruling, after five months of procrastination, was that the wall was illegal
under international law. Your ABC reports The court argued that by slicing through the West Bank the
security barrier amounted to a de-facto annexation of Palestinian
land. Most of us thought this happened some time ago, but news must travel slowly
in UN. Apparently
'international law' makes no judgment about occupying other states, but merely
on the infrastructure which the occupiers build. Maybe they should appoint a
committee of architects? So the left is horrified to see another wall keeping people out, but the Israeli government is
determined to keep building it anyway. And in spite of the denials of Israeli
officials, this wall will become a de-facto national border. Palestine will receive some
kind of recognized statehood in the future, and the wall will put some
Palestinians in the Israeli side. To their chagrin, it will sever their
social, religious and economic ties with the rest of Palestine. They will be
forced to trade with the Jews,
and integrate into the Israeli social structure, health and education systems. The funny thing is, though they don't realize it yet, they will be the lucky
ones.
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| Politics - the fight gets dirty | |
The ex- Gabrielle Latham (former wife of Maddog-Mark), has helped bring the
Australia's politics to a new low in a sordid little free-for-all which made a
mud-wrestling match look like Queensbury Rules. The multi-talented Gabby was
simultaneously shooting off at the mouth, and hitting below the belt. In her
own words 'the gloves are off'. Maddog was almost reduced to tears as he lashed out at an all powerful
Liberal conspiracy - The Dirt Unit. The foul-mouthed politician who built his
career on mud-slinging and innuendo was outraged to see others doing the same. But for once, it was difficult not to have some sympathy with
Maddog. Johnny (feeling pretty smug) Howard had been tipped to make the trip to
Government house on the weekend to ask for a snap election, and the proverbial
hit the fan on Sunday morning. It looked like Maddog was going to spend the
first half of the election fighting off accusations about marital infidelity,
sordid stag night videos, assault and battery, and even doing horrible things
to small animals as a child. Most politicians probably displayed the three indications of becoming
serial killers when they were children (bed wetting, lighting fires and
torturing small animals), but they hate being reminded of it as
adults. Especially when the reminding seems so inconveniently timed - like just
before an election. But the fact that Johnny (not-yet) Howard didn't call the election is a
pretty clear indication that any conspiracy didn't go to the highest levels.
If Little Johnny were behind it it he would have held off until he was actually
about to call the election. So the orchestrated attack wasn't the king hit his many enemies had hoped
for, and a shaken-but-not-stirred Maddog will have time to recover as he waits
for John (when-I'm-good-and-ready) Howard to make the call. But ex-missus Gabby is the wild-card. She has hinted that she has more
to tell, and undoubtedly she won't go off half-cocked again. She will wait
until the election is actually called, and drop her bundle in the middle
of the campaign. Maddog now knows this, and also knows that his 'small target' policy
strategy has made him vulnerable. He has to get his policies on air now,
because they may not get much air-time in the campaign proper. That's why he
was in Brisbane this afternoon singing the praises of public housing and
releasing his housing policy. Gabby isn't going to let another woman take her rightful place in The
Lodge. If she doesn't go, Maddog isn't going to take his new missus. Maddog
has a formidable enemy. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
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| Welfare - truly a sacred cow | |
Sex is fun. Most of us don't need to be paid to have sex. In fact some of us
are even willing to pay for it. But responsible sex involves consideration and
preparation, and the government has spent millions of our money educating us
about rubber bags, creams, and little pills to prevent unwanted outcomes - like
pregnancy. On the other hand it also gives millions of dollars to women who are too
stupid to take the pill. Apparently everyone likes the idea of receiving
welfare. The idea of getting someone else's money for doing nothing (or doing
something which you wanted to do anyway) is truly blessed. Unfortunately, he
who pays the piper also calls the tune and the blessed (those judged worthy of
receiving money stolen from other tax-payers) have to pay a price. The blessed
must spend other people's hard-earned money in a blessed way. And some of the
intellectual elite are concerned that the lump-sum baby bonus might be
squandered - ie spent on things which they don't approve of, such as drugs,
alcohol, gambling or just having a good time The thought that people who are irresponsible enough to have a child
without the financial means to support it might also be irresponsible enough to
squander other people's money never occurred to the true
pregnant-women-are-blessed believers, who have been demanding greater subsidies
for single welfare-mums for decades. But now the ALP's Wayne Swan is quoted on the ABC as saying "It is simply
irresponsible to be making lump sum payments across the board." So should we really be subsidizing women who are too irresponsible to spend
their $3000 sensibly? Yes, are told - the government's Kay (counting-the-votes)
Patterson insists that 'parents and new mothers are best placed to decide how
to spend the money'. But apparently the people who actually created the wealth are not. But this raises the more serious question of whether we should even be
encouraging these women to breed. Yes! Apparently even stupid irresponsible
women breeding is necessary 'for the common good' - it's in our own interests
whether we know it or not. As Paul Keating pointed out in his maiden speech in
parliament many years ago - "After all, the best migrant is the infant
Australian". Hmm .. Government regulation has often been criticized as being a too blunt a tool to
achieve the desired aims. But not too blunt a tool, it seems, to impregnate
Australian women.
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| Sex sells in politics | |
Your government only
wants what best for you. Not only that, but the government knows what's best
for you, and your kids too - even better than you do yourself. Or at least it
will if Australians elect
an ALP government later this
year. Mark (Maddog) Latham proposes to ban TV advertising for 'junk food' in
children's programs to
tackle Australia's child obesity epidemic. The ALP leader and much hailed ideas man has never been short of
parental advice. Parents should read to their children more, parents should
invest in their children, they should pass on assets to their children, parents
should give kids less junk food .. John (keeping-his-seat-warm) Howard made some wisecracks about the nanny
state, but treasurer Peter (Smirky) Costello was downright unkind about
Maddog's idea, referring to him as Dr Man Boobs. Then The Australian
published an unflattering picture of the ALP leader in a T-shirt, adding
considerable weight to Smirky's description. Whether Maddog's bout with
testicular cancer has played a part is hard to say, but the junk food sure
seems to. A few holiday beach-snaps of Maddog on TV would lose MacDonalds
millions. It's all part of Maddog's sexy approach to politics. Leftists, unable to actually
damage the conservative government by attacking any of its policies have fallen
back on the old rhetoric of This government is a tired government. It has no new ideas, no
new solutions, nothing but the same tired old policies.
And it's true. There are no hidden agendas, the policies have been
implemented, and the population are quietly and steadily getting wealthier. But apparently government has be new, it has to be
progressive, it constantly needs new ideas. Government has to
sexy. It has to constantly think of new laws - equating to more and
more limitations on the freedom of its subjects. The idea that a good government is one which minimizes policy, and intrudes
into people's lives as little as possible is totally alien - there
can never be enough government for these people. So Maddog is the darling of The Left, constantly thinking of new laws, and more
controls on the population to make us all better off. This may actually win the ALP some votes. If the Nanny State is finally here,
Dr Man Boobs has to be the ideal wet nurse.
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| Frownin' on bitch slappin' | |
Everyone knows that white men abuse their wives and girlfriends. They must
do. We've seen it on those television advertisements. You know - those
taxpayer funded ads to 'raise awareness' of the epidemic of white male violence. Clearly the white
male is aggressive, unreasonable, and a potential rapist and murderer. Funny, just a few short months ago we were hearing of an epidemic of
violence in Aboriginal
communities. Many families were 'affected' by domestic violence.
Apparently there were no drunken Aboriginal men beating the living daylights of
out their terrified wives and children in that case. Of
course not. The families were merely 'affected' by domestic violence, or even
'seriously affected' by domestic violence. The reasons were unclear (but probably was the fault of a group of white
males somewhere), and the solution was even less clear (but presumably involved
white males giving more money to Aboriginal social workers to try to
gain a better understanding of the problem). Prime time TV ads didn't portray any Aboriginal men beating up their wives. And just a few short years ago we were hearing of the epidemic of abuse of
young Muslim girls who were
having their genitals mutilated by fathers who didn't want them disgracing
their families by growing up with an interest in sex. We weren't really
presented with a solution then, but more money for social workers would
probably have been well regarded. Those programs vanished from the SBS and the
ABC as soon as people started
questioning the morality of subsidizing an ideology which promoted genital
mutilation. And of course after September-11, there could
be no criticism of Islamic ideology. And the prime time TV ads didn't portray any Muslims mutilating their
daughter's genitals. The feminist movement, which used to hold up female genital mutilation as
the strongest proof of a male dominated society repressing women, quietly
changed tack. The feminist movement's silence on genital mutilation of the last
few years has been deafening. But those of us who thought this silence was proof that feminism was dead have been a
bit shocked. Like the enraged resurrected zombies in Dawn of the Dead, the
feminist movement has come back and bitten the hand that feeds it with a
vengeance worthy of a rabid dog. Every abuser on the recent spate of 'anti violence' ads has, of course,
been a white male. How representative. And the ABC has backed it up with interviews of articulate and supposedly
intelligent women who speak of being in abusive relationships for many years,
and who (in spite of being intelligent and articulate) were presumably unable
to walk out of the relationships because of the mythical 'battered wife
syndrome' which makes everyone else responsible for the decisions they make. Of course no-one actually asks these women why they are so attracted to
these men in the first place. The reality is that many women are attracted to
violent men - how many footballers or gangsters need to advertise in the
personals? If you lie with dogs, expect fleas. If you marry a man who likes to beat
people up - expect some bruises. It doesn't give you the right to steal other
people's money and use it to vilify white males. Doubtless this will be followed by a round of demands for more affirmative action
for middle-class women in the public service. Another example of greed and self
interest posing as compassion.
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