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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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| Who can remember, we've got to remember | |
Lying is something all politicians do. The ignorance of the average voter is
simply too high to get elected without telling a few porkies. Try saying that
people will always die in road accidents, or that future wars are inevitable in
an election speech, and you'll get ridden out of town on a government
subsidized rail. But most politicians take a few weeks to find their feet before making up
stories about themselves - especially those who's popularity stems from a
idealist basis. Peter (short-memory-must-have-a ..) Garrett didn't
even wait for his signature to dry on his ALP application form before
stretching credibility with his story about his voting history. Peter (forgotten years) Garrett wasn't enrolled to vote, but insisted he voted,
or at least thought that he voted, but then wasn't actually sure where he was
(how smart is this man?). Faced with apparent inconsistencies in his story
about having thought that he voted, but not really, he just started brushing
aside the issue with 'I think we've dealt with that'. No Peter, if you were
really committed to Australian politics you would know where you were when the
elections were held, and who you voted for. And it's not even clear what the uncompromiser turned yes-man actually
stands for. He is popular with many idealists - his concerts were full of
kids who give money to people richer than themselves to protest about there
being people richer than themselves. But now he is happy to march to the
pragmatic beat of the ALP. 'I don't think Pine Gap should be closed,
I am quite happy to accept ALP policy on that issue'. It seems that
giving US forces the nod may be a setback for his country, but not his
political ambitions. But no, the hard-hitting political lyrics are not reflective of the real Peter
('trapped like a dog in a cage') Garrett. He insists that 'they were
lyrics, not policies.' Songs for the White House gangsters, apparently
don't apply to the next generation of Bushes. Few of the sins of the fathers
are visited upon the sons. Perhaps then the voting public don't actually know him that well. Perhaps he is
just an opportunist with a good turn of phrase? No ambition ever hopeless? A
valuable contribution to the ALP perhaps, but could the real Peter Garrett
please stand up?
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| Too unpalatable for Little Johhny | |
Every self respecting red-neck is disgusted with the thought of two men
climbing into bed together and having sex. With the sound-proofing in
modern buildings getting poorer every year, avoiding being kept awake by the
primal grunts of two sweaty men through the dividing wall of the next apartment
is paramount to one's peace of mind of mind in the modern age. And as for
explaining those funny sounds to the children, well .. So it's very easy to seize upon a solution which relies on government force. Locking up all the shirt
lifters in
the local prison is one way to keep the grunts out of earshot, but it's
expensive and it has proved unpopular in the modern 'tolerant' age. It seems
that people's rights to have consensual sex with whichever adults they please has just
about won the day. But arch conservatives like Johnny (retiring real soon now) Howard are not
content with just fighting a rear-guard action against the tail gunners. Little
Johnny has struck big a blow against the creeping acceptance of deviance in the
age of political
correctness: there will be no gay marriages in Australia. Johnny said Marriage is the most fundamental institution in our society. So fundamental it seems, that the government has an obligation to control it,
regulate it, and refuse it to people who aren't approved of by, well, the
government. Further he went on Marriage, by definition, is between a man and a woman. By whose definition Johnny?
You mean the definition which was established by people who persecuted gays?
Apparently the justification for government discrimination against gays is that
they have been persecuted by governments before. Naturally the claws came out and the gay lobby lashed out with the usual
shrieks of 'homophobia'
and 'discrimination', and
both sides managed to cover up the real issue. Marriage has nothing to do
with the government at all. Marriage is simply a contract between consenting
partners, and they have a fundamental right to agree to whatever terms in that
(or any other contract) they choose to. Johnny is right that marriage (ie the
family unit) is the most fundamental institution in our society, and that is exactly
why the government should never have nationalized it. But with parasitic institutions like the Family Law Court firmly
entrenched in our pockets and our lives, and with conservatives like Little
Johnny firmly committed to controlling as much of our lives as possible, common
sense isn't about to win the day. It's too late. Both sides of politics are
firmly refusing to leave our bedrooms. The ALP, which normally
bends over backwards for special interest groups like the gay lobby, is going
along with this. Mark (Maddog) Latham realizes that the ALP has lost much of
the redneck vote by courting retarded Aboriginal migrant lesbian feminists, and is attempting
to seduce redneck Australia by refusing to climb into bed with the nancy boys. Politics does indeed
make for strange bedfellows.
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| Coming soon - the video! | |
Until recently it was looking like US spin doctors could contain the damage
done by the revelations of Iraqi prisoner abuse in Baghdad's Abu Ghriab prison,
by pointing out the mitigating circumstances, specifically
- It was only a few guards, not a widespread phenomenon,
- It was only humiliation - there was no physical abuse,
- The guards weren't actually enjoying themselves, just looking
like they were enjoying themselves so the pictures would have more effect when
shown to friends and family of the prisoners,
- It was for a worthy cause - to soften up prisoners before interrogation
about WMDs and such-like.
But the scandal has gone from bad to worse with the confirmation of new
photos from the US run Baghdad Gulag, featuring a naked Iraqi prisoner
terrorized and then attacked by Alsatian dogs who mauled him and ripped the
flesh from his body as US guards looked on. And there are indications that
there is more (and worse) to come - including a video. This is pretty much what we had come to expect from Saddam's psychotic son
Uday before he was gunned down by US troops last year. The US won't even release the worst of the pictures - it seems that what
took place was so bad that they won't even let us know. Hardly the actions of a
well-meaning party determined to admit and move on. So it might be a while before the uncut version of US Gulag '04 hits the
video shelves but not to be outdone, the Islamofacists have beaten the US to
market and released a video of their own. This little number is available via
Internet download and features the decapitation of American hostage Nick Berg -
apparently in retaliation for US atrocities in Abu Ghriab. While any decent person would have to be appalled by the images of
Islamofacists cutting someone's throat and then hacking off their head, even
Berg's father admitted that 'at least his death was quick'. Unlike the
apparent sustained torture in Abu Ghriab. Both sides in this war are committing atrocities for a political purpose -
to terrify their opponents, and both took pictures to further their political
gain. The difference between letting Alsatian dogs rip the flesh off a
terrified naked man, and cutting off someone's head is only a question of
degree. It's a little hard to see who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.
Major combat operations may have long ceased, but it seems the fog of war has
not yet lifted from Iraq.
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| Iraqis pissed at torture scandal | |
Every armchair general worth his weight in pretzels knows the value of holding
the high ground in a military situations. Height offers a view of your enemy,
greater range for your weapons, and reduces the enemy's cover. However in this
age of instant replays live from the Baghdad battleground it's easy to forget
that however is just an extension of politics, and moral high ground is even
more important. For some US soldiers clearly forgot this and posed for photos
of themselves torturing Iraqi prisoners. The US has just lost the moral high
ground in Iraq. Worse than that, the captors are clearly having a good time, with thumbs up
and smiles in front of their naked prisoners, apparently forced to assume
debasing sexual positions. After the failure to find WMDs in Iraq, the US
justification for war fell back to the liberation of Iraq from a torturous,
sadistic and undemocratic ruler - a description which now appears to match the
US occupation. They are even doing it in the same prison which Saddam's jailers
used. And the UK didn't fare much better as British troops seemed to turn an
apparent friendly competitive spirit with the US into a pissing contest. War brings out the best and the worst of human nature, and there are
clearly sick and perverted people in every country, and in every army in the
world. The ones in the US army are apparently also stupid. It is astonishing
that the army training didn't prepare these people for this, let them know that
it was stupid, that it was illegal, and that (arguably most importantly), it
puts their colleagues at risk. How many American and British soldiers are
going to be killed as a result of the publication of these images? The US army is busy court-marshaling the people involved and pointing out
that this is not a common occurrence. They will doubtless will take measures
to try to stop it happening again, but they are pissing against the wind. In
the eyes of the Middle East it is too late. The court-marshals will not be
given serious coverage on Al Jazeera, or other Arab TV stations. The fight to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people has been lost. The
stick and carrot approach to dealing with foreign powers has failed. The best
that the US can now do is to install their puppet government and leave. And the Iraqi prisoners? Well this prisoner now knows one more reason to keep
the high ground.
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| Golden Tonsils spits the dummy | |
The masses in all societies need their Soma to take their minds off the
frustrations of everyday life, and Sydney motorists need something to take
their minds off the failure of a socialist road system in the dreary drive to
their government approved (and subsidized) work zones. That must be why there
are so many petty cat-fights on Sydney's radio waves. The latest spat is another flare-up between DJs John (golden tonsils) Laws and
Alan (shock jock) Jones, and has he-said-she-said details not unlike a 16 year
old drama-queen before prom-night.
John (where-oh-where-have-my-ratings-gone) Laws said that Alan (gloating
smugly) Jones told him at a dinner party that he (ie Alan) had told John (yes sir)
Howard to appoint David (I am an Alan Jones Fan) Flint as head of the
Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) or he (ie Alan again) would remove his
support for John (yes-sir) Howard before the next election. John (my memory is usually so good) Howard and Alan (who - me?) Jones both
took a leaf out of Carmen (I-only-lie-when-my-lips-are-moving) Lawrence's book,
and had a lapse of memory. Both of them were absolutely sure that they couldn't
remember having had any such conversation. John (cash-for-comment) Laws admitted that he was doing this because he got
dragged over the coals for selling his opinion of the banks whereas Alan
(clever-bastard) Jones has found a way to sell his opinion of Telstra through
his company, and is therefore immune to the new rules. So John (sour grapes) Laws spat the dummy.
So who cares? It's all a bit on par with watching Days of Our Lives, except
the players are all so much uglier. Well actually it does matter because it all demonstrates the idiocy of
regulation. If there were no government rules about what radio announcers could
say, or who could sponsor their shows, then the ABA would have nothing to do
except enforce spectrum boundaries (ie, stopping people from broadcasting on
someone else's spectrum channel. The entire spectrum could simply be lease-auctioned to the highest bidders.
Telstra could buy an entire radio station and broadcast nothing but
advertisements for Telstra and re-runs of 'We are Australian'. Some die-hard
socialists might even listen to it occasionally (until Telstra were privatized of
course, then it would immediately become evil). It such a system there would be no political appointments (the ABA's job
would be basically a technical one), and there would be no point in a DJ
influencing the outcome of the position. But as soon as there is government
interference on business, we see business interfering with government, and
businesses pushing their own agendas via government coersion. Clearly our government thinks we are too stupid to make our own decisions
about what to believe. That's why they have to control what we see and hear
through the media. And all to protect our right of freedom of speech, and free
choice.
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| Blinded by the rocket's red glare | |
With over 500 prisoners still held at the now infamous US military base at
Guantanamo Bay for 2 years without trial or access to the US legal system, US
justice is starting to look a little shaky. If the prisoners were being held in another country, that country's
government could dictate their treatment, if they were in the US they would
have access to US justice, but they are in no-man's land. They have been
deliberately placed in a military base inside Cuba, which the Americans have a
long-term lease on, specifically to remove them from both foreign interference
and US justice. The US justice system of course is not very good at meting out
justice. While American TV dramas are probably not the most reliable source of
information, any sensible person who has watched Law and Order has been
appalled at the misuses of the system. 'Fruit of the poisoned tree'
means that a murdered body found in the accused's car doesn't legally exist if
even one of the clues leading to its discovery was not legally obtained. The
idea that a detective and a defendent might both be guilty is something the US
justice system seems unable to cope with. Any real justice system must use all the facts available, and deal with any
illegality of their collection separately. A fact does not cease to exist
because it is distasteful, unpopular or obtained through means disapproved of. Nothing gets done to fix the broken system. Let's face it - the people being
murdered, raped, mugged and terrorised by the career criminals are mostly just
poor people who can't afford to move out of the high-crime areas. Anyone who is
anybody buys out of the problem by moving to a more expensive neighborhood, and
employing private security guards. But when 19 Islamifascists kill 3000 bankers, stockbrokers, traders and high
profile white-collar workers by flying airplanes into their offices, something
must be done and the US justice system just isn't up to it. Changing the system
is too hard, but going around it with international legal maneuvering is easy. So the US justice system will lurch on, while 500 prisoners in Guantanamo
marvel at the contradiction that is the USA. They don't understand how a
society which gives so much emphasis to personal freedom can take theirs away
so willingly; how a culture so obsessed with political correctness can act with
such aggression; or how a society that looks so weak can become so strong when
it is attacked. Meanwhile, Justice is not dead. Justice is not even blind. Like a dutiful
mistress, she is just conveniently looking the other way.
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| Lest we forget | |
In an age where less and less people even remember The Great War, why is it
that the number of Australians who turn out to watch the event seems to grow
every year? It seems even more surprising in an environment where school
children are taught to call soldiers 'harm workers', and in which the
concept of being Australian is so confused by multiculturalism and cultural
relativism as to be meaningless at best, and something to be ashamed of at
worst.
Or maybe that's actually the reason for it. Australia celebrates
'multicultural day' every year but this isn't enough for for the lobby
groups, who seem to invade the Australia day celebrations like a cavalry
brigade. Trying food from 50 different countries, and watching traditional
Western Himalayan dancing parades is a wonderful thing - but then why do we also
need a multicultural day? As a result, Anzac day is the only day which many Australians feel they can
actually call their own. In spite of the incursions in the '80s by feminist
protest groups, Anzac day lives on in the hearts and minds of a new generation,
and gives hope that maybe, just maybe, there Australia still has the will to
make a stand and defend this country from invasion. The fact that they celebrate this by getting blind pissed and playing 2-up is a bit of
worry, but each unto his own. In the midst of the drunkenness, Anzac day is a
sober reminder that freedom has a price, that sometimes the collective has to
protect the individual, and that the Australian spirit has survived all the
attacks that The Left has thrown at it over the past few decades.
At the going down of the sun,
and in the morning,
we will remember them
As for the hangovers .. sorry soldier - self inflicted injuries don't get
sympathy. Maybe a cuppa tea, a Bex and nice lie down?
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| Bring the boys back home | |
A year on from the sacking of the House of Hussein in the cradle of
civilization, things are looking anything but. Iraq has been a learning
experience for the Coalition of the Willing. Some lessons are easy, some are
hard. Here are some things we now know - The tooth fairy, the man-friendly lesbians, and the weapons of mass
destruction are clearly well hidden in the desert sands - either that or
they don't actually exist in significantly large numbers.
- Arabs really do hate Americans - it's not just a bad
press.
- Less Americans die in war
than in the 'peace' that
follows it.
- Governments are
good at toppling governments - not good at fighting anarchic militias. There is an
impedance mismatch which greater fire power does not solve.
- Exit strategies are best determined before the war, not in the
messy aftermath.
Iraq is like a disappointing marriage. There are painful
memories, lots of emotional
commitment, the loss-of-face in being seen to fail, and the ever-present
temptation to cut and run. Should we or shouldn't we? Cut and Run One problem the Americans (and their partners) have is that they have to be
good guys. Any excess of force will be written up by Lefties and Islamicists as an atrocity; any
atrocity committed by terrorists will be rewritten
as justifiable anti-imperialist resistance. A puppet Iraqi government wouldn't
have that problem. Massacring a hundred innocent civilians in order to root out a terrorist
cell would be easy for an Iraqi government - even a democratic one. So the
solution is to train the locals in 'interrogation' techniques, hand over power
and simply say - "if you don't follow the election rules in the
constitution we wrote up for you, we'll be back to lock you all up with your
mate Saddam". It might not produce the caring, compassionate, or free democracy we have
in The West, but Iraq
isn't The West - it's the Middle East, and maybe a
faulty, corrupt, violent democracy is the best democracy a Muslim nation can
hope for. Sticking It Out The comparisons with Vietnam are pretty sound. Those who see the big
picture realize that Vietnam wasn't a war - it was a frontline military
operation in a larger war that The West won. Reagan's
'evil empire' was defeated, and socialism was totally
discredited (except in the eyes of a few die-hard losers who are unable to
admit defeat). We now have a new ideological war - with Islam (or Islamicists of we
insist on being politically
correct). Iraq is the currently the frontline for that war. The Islamic
psychos are congregating in the heart of the Middle East instead of flying airplanes into
buildings closer to home. The best place to fight a war is on someone else's territory. Ask any
vietnamese. The choice Australians (and Americans) will make their decisions at the ballot boxes
later this year. Little Johnny's supporters are adopting a stiff upper lip, and
insisting that 'victory is closer than ever', and the Mark (Maddog) Latham
supporters are rubbing their hands with glee over the blood, death, and
Floundering of the Willing in Iraq. Even the RSL is asking what Little Johnny's
exit strategy is. Which is a bit silly really. Of course Little Johnny has an
exit strategy - retirement.
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