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Peter Garrett is accident prone. One only has to watch his uncoordinated
onstage antics from his rock-star days to see this. Frankly, it's surprising
that he didn't fall off the stage sometime during a Midnight Oil gig and
experience Human Frailty first hand - and break his neck. But, one only has to consider Keith Richards to realize that some rock stars do
defy the odds to live to an age which challenges actuarial predictions as
well as common sense. And common sense wasn't in great supply when Mark (Maddog) Latham took in the
washed up rock star and appointed him to be ALP Lap Dog. And Peter has been
messing on the carpet ever since. He took the dunce's cap in an almost flawless campaign conducted by Kevin
(Pixie) Rudd, in which everyone in the ALP was told to just say 'me too' after John Howard said anything. For some reason
Garrett felt a need to strong to contain - and said that they would 'just
change everything' when they were elected. Oops. You belong to the ALP now
Peter. And the company takes what the company wants. Now Peter is paying the price. He is going to keep the title of 'Environment
Minister', but he will actually spend his time opening local fetes dedicated to
retarded immigrant Aborigines raped in nuclear war or something. He might call
himself King of the Mountain, but any environment duties requiring a Real Man
have been handed to someone with real balls - the Asian Lesbian: Penny Wong. We'll just change everything? Well, some of us are enjoying the changes
already, Peter.
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Statists and true
believers were shocked recently to learn of an expectant mother miscarrying
in the toilet in the emergency ward of a major hospital after her cries for
help were ignored by hospital staff for two hours. Apparently Ms Casey was classified as 'level 4' by RPA triage staff, and relegated
to the back of the queue. Where she stayed, until it occurred to hospital staff
that a still-living fetus on the toilet floor was likely to get them unwanted
publicity. Not that hospital staff are averse to publicity, of course. Nurses seem to run
endless ads threatening to leave the profession because it's all John Howard's
fault. The fact that they are almost exclusively employed by state Labour
governments is not actually mentioned of course - apparently John Howard is
failing in his duty to force the state Labour governments to ignore market
forces. But clearly Kevin Rudd will. Because .. umm? As state and federal pollies finger pointed at
each other and ducked for cover, more and more people started coming of the
wood work and relaying their horror stories at the hands (or more likely not at
the hands) of emergency room staff in our glorious socialist health system. But it's not really clear what people expect from a socialist health
system. It's easy to simply retort with 'Guys, you wanted a socialist health
system, and you got one. What did you expect? Efficiency?' But the truth is a
little more complicated. If a woman is about to miscarry, there is little which can be done about it.
Usually miscarriages occur because of trauma (like a fall or a road accident),
or because there is something wrong with the fetus or the mother. The human
body is really pretty smart. If the mother's body decides that the fetus is
not viable it miscarries. It sounds horrible, but it's simply the truth.
The best you can do for a woman about to miscarry is to make her comfortable
and (if appropriate) give her counseling. But comfort and counseling are not the jobs of triage staff in an emergency room. They are there to
save lives. In fact, lives may have been saved by ignoring her, and helping
those who could actually be saved by the resources available. Exactly what do
people expect from a hospital emergency room? Understanding? Sympathy? Apparently so. But why would they expect this from a socialist health system?
Socialist systems are not exactly known for their humanity or compassion. Why
would they expect socialism to work differently in Australia? Apparently they are true believers. A few days later, The Telegraph showed a picture of the emergency room after
the publicity. It was empty. Sick people were either traveling further afield
to find better care, or taking their chances simply staying at home. This sounds
suspiciously like market forces kicking in. Imagine for a moment if RPA were a hospital in an all-private health
system. The publicity would have cost them millions as people chose to take
their illnesses (and spend their money) elsewhere. But our socialist health
system will simply waste a few million dollars of taxes having inquiries, finger
pointing, writing reports and shuffling deck-chairs, before returning to
business as usual. There can be few better arguments for a privatized health system.
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| Leaving the meat out | |
Those of us concerned with the future of humanity sometimes take comfort in
the Darwin Awards. Darwin Awards are
granted to people who, by acts of their own stupidity, prune themselves off the
evolutionary tree,
thereby improving the quality of the human gene pool. The ultimate sacrifice to
the collective good. While not technically qualifying, surely an honorable mention should go to the
couple who fed their baby to their pet dog. On the 28th of August, the Daily
Telegraph's readers were titillated by the news that a couple were watching
tele as their pet Siberian Husky ate their two week old baby. Apparently the
couple thought Fido was outside eating his doggie biscuits, when he was
actually inside munching into something a bit more tender. Technically these couple could have another baby, thus allowing their obviously
defective genes to survive another generation, so they don't qualify for the
Darwin Awards. One can only hope that responsible friends and family will
discourage them from doing so. While not a great fan of state intervention,
there are few stronger arguments for compulsory sterilization. While also not a great fan of The Religion of Peace, yours truly
can't help but think that these people would have done a little better
attending Sheik Hilali's sermons about leaving the meat out. It seems that it's
not just cats and Muslims that are unable to resist unguarded meat - it applies
to dogs as well. And really really stupid people do seem to need guidance from
their elites. Astonishingly, the following day, a family member was quoted as saying there
couple were 'unable to understand how or why this happened'. Guys,
it's not complicated: The. Dog. Ate. The. Baby. Is there some part of that which is hard to understand? Apparently so. The paper went on to report that:
Canine Association of WA president Phil Thompson said Siberian huskies were
generally agreeable companions.
normally they just eat each other?
It just seems to be a one-off freak accident,
Apparently he has never heard of any previous dog attacks. He mustn't get out much.
Dogs can show possessive natures.
Yeah, I get that way around my big juicy steak too.
Siberian huskies are not that sort of dog.
All evidence to the contrary. Moron.
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| I take full responsibility. It's not my fault. | |
Every redneck knows that saying 'I was drunk' is an excuse that will get
you out of some hot spots. It won't exactly get you off Scot free, but it will
deflect some well deserved wrath from those around you. Much like 'society is
to blame', it may confuse the issue for long enough for you draw attention to
someone else's short comings. Yours truly has used this excuse on numerous occasions. Yours truly even
used the excuse that 'she was drunk' on one occasion. [For the record,
this strategy had only limited success]. Kevin 'Pixie' Rudd wouldn't make that mistake - under pressure he'll stick
to the tried and true version. Like for instance when he is accused of
'inappropriate touching' in a New York strip club. The Pixie does admit to going to a 'nightclub', which is a bit strange. A
'nightclub' is a bar where couples and groups go to dance, and where singles go
to pick up. The idea is not usually to get drunk, but to get a potential
partner drunk, to maximize your chances of getting lucky. In fact, The Pixie and two mates went to a 'strip club'. For the
uninitiated - that's a place where women take money for performing
services. Exactly what services they provide is left to the reader as a
research exercise, but at the lower end of the scale, the touching only goes
one way. Just because you have paid money doesn't mean that you get to touch
them - they just touch you. It seems that The Pixie, a mere Australian Politician, and clearly naive in
the ways of the big wide world, didn't know this, and got himself into a bit of
strife. Lefties have always been regarded as a bit 'touchie-feelie', but the
Pixie might have taken this trend a bit literally. Oops. Nothing naive about his damage control strategy though. He admits to being
there, but claims to not remember much about it because he was drunk. Very
clever - no-one can prove he is lying, and if more damning evidence comes to
light, then the story doesn't have to change. And to be fair, he has taken full responsibility for his actions. Of
course, he won't actually say what those actions are. Just that he takes full
responsibility for them. The Pixie's complex
relationship with 'responsibility', truth and alcohol has been noted before in this
column, but let's not get distracted. The truly appalling thing here is not that The Pixie went to a strip
club. He said his mistake was 'going into the club', but it's not. It was the unwanted
touching. Here is a man who doesn't understand the moral difference between
paying someone to dance, and violating them through unwanted touching. The
distinction between consensual and non-consensual acts is blurred in the
collectivist left-wing mindset. If personal sovereignty does not exist, then
what's the problem helping yourself to someone else's body without their
consent? To complete the age-old pattern, he just had to find someone else to
blame. And who better than Alex 'Gumby' Downer? It was a bit like Jimmy
Swaggart and his 'The Devil made me do it' excuse. 'It's all Alex Downer's fault' mightn't have the same memorability, but it is confusing
enough to keep the blinkers on the true believers until after the election. And this man seems likely to be our next Prime Minister. If he does, then I
for one refuse to take responsibility for it. But I will need to drown my
sorrows. Could someone get me a drink?
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| Absolutely Bereft of Credibility | |
Suppose that you could do something that would cost your worst enemy
$10,000, would you do it? Of course. But what if doing it would cost you
$5,000? Would you still do it? Would it be worth it? You'd have to hate them an
awful lot wouldn't you? Hold that thought for a minute. The distinction between a liar and a promise breaker has been explored
before in this column. And politics has no shortage of either. Hatred is a
strong part of politics too. Especially when the ABC is involved with the
Coalition. And even more so when grubby little ABC journalists try to make
themselves part of the story. Like Michael Bissenden. In case you missed the story:
- Peter 'Smirky' Costello is asked whether he ever made certain unflattering
remarks about his boss, Little Johnny.
- Smirky denies making the comments.
- Three grubby Journalists, led by Michael Bissenden contradict him and say
that yes, he did say those things 'off the record' over dinner two years ago.
- The credibility of all four people is called into question. Smirky is
accused of lying. The journalists are accused of violating a trust.
The details over exactly what Smirky is accused of saying, or the fact that
the journalists got the month wrong are merely a distracting detail here. And as for the fact that all politicians tell
lies, well, don't bother to alert the media. Clearly Bissenden saw the opportunity to damage the much hated Liberal
party. He could damage the Treasurer's credibility. But there was a price to be
paid - he had to give up his own credibility. It will be interesting to watch Bissenden's career after this. His ABC
cronies may be anxious to reward him for his efforts, but will any politicians
be willing to feed him stories 'off the record' after his little stunt? And
will he be able to compete with other journalists who can get those scoops? This hasn't affected the credibility of the ABC of course - the ABC had no
credibility anyway. But it has highlighted the depth of the hatred that the
organization has of the Coalition. You have to hate someone an awful lot to pay
that price to hurt them. That's your ABC.
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A long standing debate is whether plumbing or science saved more lives last
century. Doctors may have fussed over antibiotics, vaccines and other
concoctions but plumbers did a whole lot more to actually keep the diseases at
bay. Mostly by flushing it out of mind and out of sight. As someone who spent
much of their childhood without a flush toilet I can say that I am a big fan of
modern plumbing. And plumbers too - when you can get them to turn up. Of course the jury is back on what actually killed the most people last
century: socialism. But let's actually talk about science in this article. Many years ago I attended to a science graduation ceremony at one of our more
esteemed universities. A famous scientist (famous in Australia anyway) gave the
keynote address, and spent pretty much the entirety of his 20 minutes bagging
the discipline of Economics. All the usual half-truths, cliches and
anti-economics jokes came out and I have to say the about-to-graduate science
students loved it. I'm not sure how the combined economics-science graduates
took it, but no-one seemed to care. It could just have been nervous laughter of course. Perhaps the science
graduates were concerned about spending their time filling in unemployment
benefit forms, and knowing that their more economically minded colleagues would
earn $60K in their first year. For many of those new scientists, it was the last lecture they ever
attended. And the message they took from it is that in order to be good
scientists they must ignore (and preferably belittle) the tools offered by the
discipline of Economics. The message I took from it was that scientists can be ignorant stupid
people. Of course everyone has a preference for their own field of study
(that's why they chose it). But why would an intelligent person belittle (or
even ignore) the models, the tools and the offerings of another discipline? Many years later, that generation of scientists now comprise the body which the
government is going to in order to advise on our water crisis. Naively, one might think that economics (the study of the allocation of scarce
resources) might be useful giving insights into the allocation of a scarce
resource (like water), but our scientists seem to have been educated out of
taking that approach. The scientists will presumably look for a solution in their test tubes. A
solution in the Bernoulli or Navier-Stokes equations and publish papers about
the relationship between Choas Theory and Climate Change, or whatever topic is
hot in the world of science and will get more publications, and hence the
funding which follows them. Yet there are still calls to take water rights away from mere private owners,
and hand over the control of the river system to scientists. Muslims might call
for their ordained Mullahs to make their decisions for them. Many Australians
call for the high priests of the Religion of Science to do it for them. Worshipping God went out of favor with the rise of communism. Worshiping
The State went out of favor with the collapse of communism. But we can still
worship science. And cuius regio, eius religio.
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| The happiest days of our lives | |
Hardened Leftists and lovers of big government will be gratified to see the
latest union propaganda on our televisions. An advertisement depicts a dopey overweight teacher being almost run over by John
Howard's car as he bypasses a welcoming committee at a public school. The advertisement plays on the usual sophistry about 'Public schools teach
almost 70 per cent of students, but their share of federal education funding
has been cut to 35 per cent'. The statement is, of course, deliberately
misleading to the point of dishonesty. As Howard himself pointed
out: Sixty-seven per cent of Australian school children attend government
schools, and government schools receive 75per cent of all public [ie tax] funding, How can both statements be true? The key is the word 'federal' inserted by the
teachers union. Most state education money goes to public schools, and the
federal government partially closes the gap by giving money directly to private
schools. The teacher's union's statement is clearly designed to give the
impression that more government money is being spend of each private school
student than each public one. The union hopes that most people won't hear the
word 'federal', or just interpret it to mean that it's all John Howard's fault
or something. This kind of intellectual dishonesty is nothing new, but should we expect this
from a teacher? It does rather beg the question: If they are spreading that level of misinformation on our televisions, what
rubbish are the teaching our children? State education is not your friend.
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| We come in peace - shoot to kill | |
Society's intellectual elites
seem obsessed with fundamental questions. And every generation seems to ask the
same ones. Not things like 'will I be pretty, will I be rich?' Those
questions are for the Proles to sing in trashy commercial media. More
fundamental questions - like 'Where did we come from?', 'Are we
alone?' and 'How can I use socialist ideology to secure a pay
rise?' This column normally derides the efforts of such intellectual elites, but on
occasion one is forced to admit that not all their efforts are destructive - in
particular, the variety which spend cold nights gazing through telescopes.
They are not like the rest of us who use telescopes to acquaint ourselves with
the social habits of the the neighbor's 17 year old daughter. These guys use
really really powerful telescopes to look for new galaxies on the other side of
the universe. They might be wasting tax-payers money, but at least they aren't
using the money to promote their hidden socialist agendas. They are too busy
staying up all night gazing through telescopes. And shivering. It seems that one group of
astronomers has discovered HD 209458b - a planet with with a temperature
between 0 and 40 centigrade, and with water on it. So what's the big deal about
water? Well water, dear reader, is the stuff of life, so it comes down to the
question: what are the chances of life (ie chains of replicating nucleic acids)
from forming in an environment with water? The religious zealots will
insist that only God can create life, but we can deal with that argument by
patting them on the head and giving them an explosive vest. Life is thought to have evolved from a 'primal soup' - an environment with many
amino acids floating around in water. Somehow self replicating strands of DNA
formed, and then evolved into single-celled creatures, and then multi-celled creatures,
and finally into staunch conservative bible bashers who sit around denying the
whole process. Sort of makes you wonder what the purpose of it all is really. But to succumb
to such a question would align one with the intellectual elites. So let's not
digress. Some calculations around 30 years ago put the probability of the production of
a spontaneous self-reproducing DNA strand in a primal soup at around
1/10^40. Pretty long odds even by astronomical standards. But as more and more
studies are done into the bootstrapping possibilities of biological chemicals,
we realize that the probability is much higher (ie more likely). Around 15 years ago,
probabilities of 1/10^20 were being bandied around as people discovered more
mechanisms which would self replicate. At the risk of being bogged down, biologists realized that you didn't need
self replicating strands of DNA. Just a strand which randomly joined
amino acids together would eventually replicate itself by pure chance, and then
there would be two of them, so the process would go twice as quickly and then
... well you get the idea. In fact, the more such processes are studied, the more shortcuts become
obvious. And eventually it becomes obvious that the spontaneous formation of life
from a primal soup is almost a certainty given enough time. Given that
life probably formed on Earth within the first half billion years of it's
formation gives a clue as to the kind of timescales we talking about here. So the conclusion is that life on HD 209458b is almost a certainty. It may not
be sentient, it might
still consist of slime and dung beetles. But it's life. It's carbon (or
perhaps silicone) based, and it's life as we know it. And the planet is only 150 light years away from us. That means that we could
send a messages, and expect a response in 300 years or so. A game of Chess
would take a mere 7500 years. Every 300 years intellectual elites could argue
about the best way to make a collective decision on
which move Earth should play. Regardless, one of humanity's fundamental questions has been answered.
Questions like 'Where did I come from?' can be answered with a quick
lesson on sex. 'How can I use socialist ideology to secure a pay
rise?' is not really a question but a skill, already mastered by university
academics. But at least one of the most fundamental questions which man has asked himself,
ever since he climbed out the primeval swamp and sat down to watch Star Trek,
has been answered: We are not alone.
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It's sometimes hard to say what goes on in the dark recesses of Islam.
Occasionally one gets a glimpse into the mindset, as someone lets the cat out
of the bag to grab some unattended meat, before retreating into the
'misinterpretation', 'out of context' and multicultural victim-hood. Or sometimes even
to prison. In one such a glimpse, some mainstream media outlets were reporting that the
ever colorful Sheik Hilali has been sacked as Australia's Mufti. This has been
met with counter-claim, and counter-counter-claim, but as usual the real
entertainment is not in the truth - it's in the positions of the players. Specifically Kevin (KRudd) Rudd has weighed into the religious debate,
insisting that "It's time for
Sheik Hilali to go and it's time that that happened as a matter of urgency,"
because his "views are inconsistent with the mainstream views of the Australian
community." Huh? This from the leader of the party which championed political
correctness? This from the successor of the man who intervened to give
Hilali citizenship in the first place - in spite of his questionable police
record? Apparently Kevin Rudd feel that people should be sacked simply for having
'views inconsistent with the mainstream'. Wouldn't that constitute unfair
dismissal Kevin? What even happened the ALP's stance on Little Johnny's
'draconian' IR laws? And what about diversity? As Australians, aren't we
supposed to celebrate diversity, Kevin? Wasn't 'mainstreaming' a dirty word
concocted by the fascists in the Liberal party? And would it be appropriate for a Prime Minister (or wannabe Prime Minister) to
interfere with the internal decisions of a religious group? Isn't Australia
supposed to be a secular state? Does KRudd want us to become more like the
Middle East in this respect? Kevin Rudd has once again demonstrated that he is a total goose. For the rest of us, Hilali's status is just an indicator of the sentiment of
the Muslim attitude within Australia. Whether he has been sacked or not, the
fact that he survived this long is a clear indication of the median mind-set of
his supporters. Though-out his lies about his Iraqi adventures (apparently
single-handedly rescuing Douglas Wood), the comments about women being to blame
for rape, and calling
Australians the worst kind of liars and hypocrites, he wasn't removed. The
conclusion? That at least half of the Muslims in this country supported his
position, and therefore supported him. If the Sheik truly is fired from his position, then this will be an indication
of a smarter Muslim population (in recognizing that their overt support for
such extremism has consequences), but not necessarily a change in attitude.
'Mainstream' Australia will remain suspicious of their Islamic co-citizens in
spite of their claims to be from the 'religion of peace'. Is such suspicion justified, or are we merely Hansonist xenophobes? It's
clearly the latter. After all what would would you expect from the worst kind
of liars and hypocrites?
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Sometimes, if you shout at the kids loudly and long enough, they will leave you
alone on Sunday mornings and let you watch TV in bed. For some reason the
biggest LCD TV in the house is in the one in the bedroom, so watching TV in bed
is one of the pleasures in life. Not so much of a pleasure this morning though, as one of the commercial
networks ran their in-depth story on Kevin (KRudd) Rudd. The
'meet the Rudds' interview was shot a fortnight ago, before he was revealed as
being a serial consorter with known criminals, and was still presenting himself
as the all-round-good-guy family man. Just an average guy with few kids and a
millionaire wife. The fact that he admitted that he and his millionaire wife got someone in to
iron his shirts was a bit of a giggle. [How many Australians can afford to have
their clothes ironed? Are they in the top or bottom 50% income percentile?
Which of those groups does KRudd claim to represent?] But the clincher was him talking about the 'pivotal' point in his life [Ed: the
'fork
in the road?'] where his father died. He didn't want to talk about the
cause of the car accident which killed his father. He just wanted to talk about
the problems with the hospital system which didn't save his father's life, and
the fact that his mother (left with four kids) had to find somewhere else to
live, since their house was a fringe benefit of his father's employment. KRudd hinted
that the surgeons operating on his father may have been incompetent, and hinted
that one or two were 'moved on' as a result of the inquest. He said that he
would like, one day, to actually see the findings of the inquest into his
father's death. Apparently this is what made KRudd the man he is today. A passionate need to
see that no-one would have to go through what he went through. A need to
improve to medical system, and to create a more compassionate society. Exactly
how he was 'improving the medical system' when he closed 2200 Queensland
hospital beds as a public servant was a bit of a puzzle. His nickname of
'Doctor Death' didn't provide many clues either. Doubtless he was 'just doing his job'. But the most telling thing was what the inquest report actually said.
Perhaps Doctor Death should have actually read it before speaking out.
According to the report, it contained almost nothing about the hospital care,
and was mostly about the accident itself. KRudd's father survived the accident,
and gave interviews to police before succumbing to his injuries. He admitted to
- Getting pissed at lunchtime;
- Getting more pissed at dinnertime;
- Starting to drive the 120 Km home; and
- Continually falling asleep at the wheel before drifting off the road and hitting a tree.
Yes, dear reader, this was the cause of the pivotal point in KRudd's
life. His totally irresponsible father puts himself, his family and other
people at risk by driving drunk and falling asleep at the wheel. But there's nothing in the personal KRudd philosophy about responsibility.
Nothing that suggests that people with wives and dependents should take care on
the roads; that they shouldn't drink and drive; or that they should pull over if
they are about to fall asleep. Nothing to suggest that people should take more
responsibility for their own actions. Nothing to suggest that people who put
others at risk are not victims, but perpetrators. As usual, the leftist manifesto is simply about denial of responsibility.
It was the fault of the hospital system. It was the fault of the surgeons. It
was the fault of the heartless employer. It was the fault of society. Remember: society is to blame.
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