Australian Media Mocks CNN’s Glowing Coverage of Bumbling Joe Biden. Even the Australian media hates our media.
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So apartheid is evil unless you’re segregating the races to play football against South Africa in Africa and the race being excluded is caucasian in which case it’s all dandy.
This one is beyond us. Our feeble intellects are simply not capable of comprehending the thinking behind this.
All these years we thought South African apartheid was evil, that the intentional exclusion of one race by another was unacceptable. But then how do you explain the fact that a race-based football team from Australia has been selected specifically to play South Africa? And how do you explain the fact that it’s being applauded?
The Age reports the odd turn of events as if they don’t see any irony in it:
An AFL match will be staged as an exhibition event at the Africa Games in Mozambique in September. It will be between a team from South Africa and an Australian Aboriginal team.
So apartheid is evil unless you’re segregating the races to play football against South Africa in Africa and the race being excluded is caucasian in which case it’s all dandy.
Surely, there’s some logic in there somewhere. We’re just having trouble finding it.
http://youtu.be/X_hqosNvv5E
By the way, if you’ve never seen Aussie rules football, you don’t know what you’re missing. It’s like the NFL without pads or the NBA without rules. Don’t know how the players survive each week’s games.
Source: The Age
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s iPod gift to Obama was filled with an assortment of Aussie music, including some anti-American songs from Midnight Oil.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard visited the White House on Wednesday and gave President Obama an iPod. Imagine the joy on the manchild’s face when he saw the iPod, assumed he was being re-gifted the same iPod he gave Queen Elizabeth and got excited about the thought of being able to listen to his own speeches again.
No such luck. Gillard’s iPod was filled with an assortment of Aussie music, including some anti-American songs from Midnight Oil.
The Sydney Morning Herald explains:
As the lead singer with politically edged Aussie rock band Midnight Oil, Peter Garrett railed against “US forces”.
Now the Oils – whose singer is a minister in the federal Labor government – feature on US President Barack Obama’s iPod.
The music player, chock-full of Australian pop and rock music, was a gift to the American leader from Julia Gillard on her first visit to Washington as Prime Minister.
While US forces doesn’t feature on the iPod, the Oils songs include King of the Mountain, Blue Sky Mine, Beds are Burning and Short Memory – a lament of the superpower’s interference in nations such as El Salvador, Cambodia and Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, the most Aussie of all Aussie rock songs, Men At Work’s Land Down Under, was not included. So we’ll do what Julia Gillard didn’t do and offer it here.
Hell of a lot better than an Obama speech.
And, c’mon, Julia, what about the very first international hit by an Aussie artist, Rolf Harris’ Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport?
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
The Statue of Liberty says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.” It doesn’t say, “Give me your lunatics yearning to remain enslaved in a 13th Century death cult and dedicated to the destruction of the West.”
The Statue of Liberty says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.” It doesn’t say, “Give me your lunatics yearning to remain enslaved in a 13th Century death cult and dedicated to the destruction of the West.”
British Prime Minister David Cameron has figured it out. And he pulls no punches in this speech to an international security conference in Munich. British Muslims, he said, must adopt mainstream Western values of freedom and equality. He also declared that the concept of multiculturalism has failed and must be abandoned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yZgkglFfM
“We won’t defeat terrorism simply by the actions we take outside our borders. Europe needs to wake up to what is happening in our own countries,” Cameron told the conference.
In an attack on Britain’s previous government, Cameron said authorities there had been too hesitant to intervene when some sectors of society espoused abhorrent views.
… “We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run counter to our values,” Cameron said. “We have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream.”
Cameron’s not alone. German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently took the same position:
Germany’s attempt to create a multicultural society has “utterly failed,” Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, adding fuel to a debate over immigration and Islam polarising her conservative camp.
Speaking to a meeting of young members of her Christian Democrats (CDU), Merkel said allowing people of different cultural backgrounds to live side by side without integrating had not worked in a country that is home to some four million Muslims.
“This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed,” Merkel told the meeting in Potsdam, south of Berlin.
In the land Down Under, the Australian government seems to have come to the same conclusion according to the government’s white paper on counter-terrorism:
“A … shift apparent since 2004 has been the increase in the terrorist threat from people born or raised in Australia, who have become influenced by the violent jihadist message,” it warns. “A number of Australians are known to subscribe to this message, some of whom might be prepared to engage in violence. Many of these individuals were born in Australia and they come from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds …”
”The scale of the problem will continue to depend on factors such as the size and make-up of local Muslim populations, including their ethnic and/or migrant origins, their geographical distribution and the success or otherwise of their integration into their host society.”
Great Britain, Germany and Australia get it. Still waiting to see how long it takes for France, Canada and the United States to get it.
January 20, 2013 at the earliest would be our guess.
Source: Associated Press, Andrew Bolt
THONGS and board shorts gave way to beanies and scarves yesterday as summer gave way to a wintry blast of snow and icy temperatures in Australia’s southeast.
You read about those record cold temperatures hitting Europe and the northern United States and you say, “Well, sure, but winter’s just a few days away so it’s not that strange.”
Hmmm. Then how do you explain snow in Australia a few days away from summer?
News.com.au has the frigid factoids:
THONGS and board shorts gave way to beanies and scarves yesterday as summer gave way to a wintry blast of snow and icy temperatures in the country’s southeast.
While the bitter freeze in Europe continues, Victoria and NSW have had a cold snap of their own, with off-season ski slopes transformed into winter wonderlands.
About 30cm of snow fell at Perisher in NSW yesterday, while Victoria’s Mount Hotham received a 10cm dusting on Sunday.
Charlotte’s Pass in the NSW Snowy Mountains also received a 10cm sprinkling of snow, prompting would-be bushwalkers to don clothing more suitable for skiing.
It was surprising to see the Kosciuszko Chalet Hotel blanketed with snow at this time of year, resort manager Michelle Lovius told The Australian yesterday.
“I’m sitting inside in my scarf and beanie,” she said.
“When you walk in it, it’s up past your ankles and it’s just started snowing heavily again.”
Will the environmentalists admit that they were wrong? That’ll be a cold day in hell. And in Australia.
Source: News.com.au
Wednesday, in what we can only hope is a preview of coming attractions here in the United States, Rudd was booted out of office by his own party.
Tell us if this tale sounds familiar:
A charismatic leftist gets elected in an overwhelming rout that decimates his country’s conservative party. As soon as he takes office, he begins pounding money down a rat hole with one crazy spending scheme after another, proposes a complete overhaul of the country’s healthcare system, institutes immigration policies that allow unparalleled numbers of illegal aliens to flood the nation, and proposes a hugely unpopular “excess” profits tax. After a euphoric period of initial popularity, his poll numbers drop precipitously.
Despite what you may have thought, this is actually the sad story of Kevin Rudd, Australia’s leftist Obama-wannabe Prime Minister for the last 944 days.
Wednesday, in what we can only hope is a preview of coming attractions here in the United States, Rudd was booted out of office by his own party.
The Sydney Morning Herald has details that the Obama administration should pay attention to:
Julia Gillard has become Australia’s first woman prime minister after Kevin Rudd stood down from the position during a Labor Party leadership spill.
Ms Gillard has been elected unopposed to the position and Wayne Swan will become deputy prime minister.
The spill came after a newspaper report claiming Mr Rudd had instructed his chief of staff Alister Jordan to ring around the caucus to see whether MPs were still behind him.
944 days. Just about two-and-one-half years. It’s days like this we wish we had a parliamentary system in the United States.
NOTE TO OUR AUSTRALIAN READERS: We apologize for the misuse of the word “charismatic” in regard to Kevin Rudd. Consider it poetic license.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Two hundred coffee mugs (probably tea mugs in the land down under) created to celebrate Obama’s upcoming visit to Australia had to be destroyed because they misspelled the President’s name.
Kevin Rudd, Australian Prime Minister and Barack Obama’s leading international bootlicker, must be embarrassed.
Two hundred coffee mugs (probably tea mugs in the land down under) created to celebrate Obama’s upcoming visit to Australia had to be destroyed because they misspelled the President’s name.
The Australian reports the typographic tragedy:
The mugs were ordered about ten days ago by Secretary of the Department of Parliamentary Services Alan Thompson on the suggestion of some the department’s staff.
The mugs carried pictures of the President’s face with his first name spelt as “Barrack”.
Mr Thompson told The Australian Online the mugs were manufactured in China or Vietnam but the branding had been conducted by an Australian company in Queensland.
However, he has taken responsibility for the spelling mistake and believes at this stage that the error “may have occurred inside the department”.
“We’ve got to take accountability for the misspelling,” he told The Australian Online.
Despite the mistake, two of the mugs were sold this morning before a staff member at the gift shop spotted the error.
The cost to produce each mug was $5 and they were to be sold at the gift shop at a price of $10.
In addition to getting the spelling of the President’s name wrong, the Aussies also got his economics wrong. If they really wanted to properly honor this president, they would have spent $10 to produce the mugs and sold them for $5.
That’s just Obamanomics 101.
Source: TheAustralian.com
We’re pleased to introduce Kerry Faggotter.
No, we’re not making that up. It’s for real. The woman’s name is Kerry Faggotter.
Tough to imagine a name that makes it tougher to run for office in the United States. Maybe Hitler Ahmadinejad. Or Pol Pot Mussolini. But when your name is Kerry Faggotter, you are undoubtedly destined to catch flak from both sides of the gay rights issue.
We’re pleased to introduce Kerry Faggotter.
No, we’re not making that up. It’s for real. The woman’s name is Kerry Faggotter.
Tough to imagine a name that makes it tougher to run for office in the United States. Maybe Hitler Ahmadinejad. Or Pol Pot Mussolini. But when your name is Kerry Faggotter, you are undoubtedly destined to catch flak from both sides of the gay rights issue.
The unfortunately named Ms. Faggotter is an Australian politician. She’s a member of the Liberal party, which oddly enough, is the most conservative major political party in Australia.
Thing are, indeed, upside down in the Land Down Under.
Source: Tim Blair
Steve Lee is an Australian gun lover. And “I Love Guns” is available at Australian gun stores and at his own online store.
The phrase “number one with a bullet” comes from Billboard Magazine’s practice of putting a bullet symbol next to songs that were zipping up the weekly record charts at a rapid rate.
We ran across this music video at the fabulous AceofSpades HQ site. It’s a country song, so we assumed Steve Lee, its singer, must be an American.
But wait. Why are Australian flags hanging on the wall in one scene? And why is the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car. And why is he driving on the wrong side of the road?
Hey, we didn’t watch all those old Perry Mason shows without learning how to read a clue or two.
Turns out Steve Lee is an Australian gun lover. And “I Love Guns” is available at Australian gun stores and at his own online store.
“I Love Guns.” Think of it as an Ode to the Second Amendment.
Source: Ace of Spades HQ, ILikeGuns.com.au
Our friends down under have just come out of the Southern Hemisphere’s winter with the swine flu raging through the nation, decimating its people and destroying its economy everywhere…
Our friends down under have just come out of the Southern Hemisphere’s winter with the swine flu raging through the nation, decimating its people and destroying its economy everywhere from the Opera House to the Outback.
Or not.
The predictions had been that the swine flu would kill thousands, maybe tens of thousands of Aussies.
Back in April, the World Health Organization said “all humanity is under threat.”
Aussie Health Minister Nicola Roxon said flu could kill 6000 Aussies this flu season and put 80,000 in hospital. And that’s out of a total population of just 20 million.
Professor Raina MacIntyre, a member of the Government’s influenza advisory group, anticipated an even higher toll.
“If you look at deaths that are directly related to influenza and also to pneumonia, which is the most common complication of influenza,” she said, “we could be looking at anything in the ball park of 10,000 deaths, 10,000 to 20,000 deaths.”
None of it happened.
The actual number of Aussies who died from swine flu?
A mere 185.
As Aussie blogger Andrew Bolt said, “Add swine flu now to a notorious list of other great scare campaigns: bird flu, SARS, acid rain, the Y2K bug, Chernobyl, genetically modified food, impending famines … Oh, and global warming. “
Expect equally devastating results during our upcoming flu season.
Source: Andrew Bolt
The Land Down Under has an illegal immigrant named Abdul Benbrika. He’s been cheating Australia’s welfare system for 19 years. And plotting jihad against the Aussies the entire time.
The Land Down Under has an illegal immigrant named Abdul Benbrika. He’s been cheating Australia’s welfare system for 19 years. And plotting jihad against the Aussies the entire time.
It’s not bureaucracy, it’s bureaucrazy.
Wake the hell up, America.
Source: LiveLeak.com
At some point you have to start feeling sorry for the greens. No one wants their cars. No one wants their light bulbs. No one wants their taxes. And most of all, no one wants to be scammed by their government.
At some point you have to start feeling sorry for the greens. No one wants their cars. No one wants their light bulbs. No one wants their taxes. And most of all, no one wants to be scammed by their government.
The Sydney Morning Herald tells the story:
In a move that could cost the Federal Government’s GreenPower scheme public support, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has asked a state government agency and energy suppliers to stop telling customers that using GreenPower will ‘‘make a real difference’’ to the environment. Almost a million households now buy GreenPower, paying extra on their power bills to support renewable energy and shrink their carbon footprint.
But they will no longer be told it leads to ‘‘significant results for our environment’’.
Turns out the only thing that’s significant about green power is its cost.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Ten members of Congress spent $500,000 – according to Wall Street Journal estimates – on an 11-day global warming fact finding mission over New Year’s 2008.
Ten members of Congress spent $500,000 – according to Wall Street Journal estimates – on an 11-day global warming fact finding mission over New Year’s 2008.
Naturally, they couldn’t study global warming without their wives, so six spouses also went on the trip to Antarctica, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and Hawaii.
Mark Arbib, Australia’s Employment Minister, made the mistake of going on Sky News to hype the left wing government’s new “green job” initiative. Reporter David Speers goes after him like you wish American reporters would go after nonsense-spewing members of the Obama administration.
If you thought the United States was the only country that has to deal with green nonsense, think again.
Mark Arbib, Australia’s Employment Minister, made the mistake of going on Sky News to hype the left wing government’s new “green job” initiative. Reporter David Speers goes after him like you wish American reporters would go after nonsense-spewing members of the Obama administration.
The stuttering, stammering results are hilarious.
Speers: Does that mean that you are calling this a job or does that mean they’ll be remaining on the unemployment benefit?
Arbib: No, well, this is … yeah this is a work experience program.
Speers: Is it a job or is it a work experience program?
Arbib: A work experience program is a job. They’ll be actually working during this time.
Speers: When you say it’s a job, do they get sick leave? Do they get superannuation? How is it just not the same as the work for the dole scheme?
Arbib: Well, I don’t have all the details.
Speers: But you’re the minister.
Arbib: Well, I am, but I don’t have all the details today for you mate. But what I can tell you …
Speers: But it’s just been announced by the Prime Minister.
Arbib: 10,000 young people, 26 weeks’ training, plus work, day after day, it’s a great, great result.
Speers: But it is still being worked out.
Arbib: No, no, this scheme will be under way in January 2010, and obviously some of the detail will still have to be finalised, but …
Speers: Is one of those details whether it will be a job or work experience?
Arbib: Well, well … it’s a fine line but can I tell you it is work experience. Work experience is a job.
Surely, no one in the land down under is under the impression this makes sense.
Source: Andrew Bolt
Beer isn’t just a beverage in Australia. It’s a golden elixir. The lifeblood of the nation. The liquid that makes life worth living. So you’d expect the Aussies to make great beer commercials.
Beer isn’t just a beverage in Australia. It’s a golden elixir. The lifeblood of the nation. The liquid that makes life worth living. So you’d expect the Aussies to make great beer commercials.
This one is vaguely reminiscent of the Bud Light’s True Men of Genius campaign, but much bigger, much wackier, much funnier.
That being said, we don’t understand some of the Aussie slang in the commercial, but guessing makes it even funnier.
Perhaps some of our Aussie readers could explain the meaning of “The Azzas,” “Blokes Punching above their weight” (we think that one might mean, “Guys with women they don’t deserve”), “Meat Tray Winners” and “Cashed Up Bogans.”
Enjoy.
Source: Andrew Bolt
The liberal media’s global warming gang is so busy announcing dire threats to mankind’s existence that they can’t find room to run articles like this:
“Record low temperatures in 28 states”
Record low temperatures in 28 states go unreported by the media. Several of the records were more than 100 years old.
Source: IceAgeNow.com
“Coldest May morning on record in Australia”
Two far north Queensland towns experienced their coldest May morning in history on May 22, 2009.
Cooktown, an hour north of Cairns, dropped to 10 degrees Celsius (two degrees below its previous record low), while Coen on Cape York Peninsula recorded just 10.4 degrees Celsius.
Source: Cairns.com.au via IceAgeNow.com
“Snow in Saudi Arabia”
Saudis were surprised by snow in Al-Baha city south-west of Riyadh on May 19, 2009. Torrential rains accompanied by gusty winds left snow on the mountains, valley areas and forests near Al-Zaraeb and Khayrah.
Source: IceAgeNow.com
We’ve never met Tim Blair but we read his blog. You should, too. He’s a columnist for the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Yes, that Sydney. The one with kangaroos and prisoners way down there on the other side of the world.
With all the humility we can muster, we say Tim’s the second funniest commentator on the web. Here are a couple of his recent comments:
PRESIDENT DOESN’T CARE. At least 42 people are dead and possibly one million are without power and water – while their President hosts cocktail parties and watches the Superbowl. Bush has really blown it this time. The media will tear him apart.
UPDATE. Apparently Bush is no longer President. It’s some new guy instead. Boy, is he ever in trouble!
HEY, AT LEAST HE DELIVERED CHANGE. Letter in the February edition of Viz: “I don’t know why everyone is so pleased about America getting a black president. Zimbabwe has had one for years and he’s s**t.”
Check Tim out. Bookmark his blog.
