It may come across as a little contradictory, coming from the editor of an online newspaper dedicated to denuding the ABC of half its budget, but ABC Grandstand is a big part of my weekend routine. The Coodabeen Champions in the morning have me chuckling all afternoon, the sound of the footy reminds me of the chill of winter, while the sound of cricket reminds me of “shorts and t-shirt days.”
So, moving on from this guff, am I the only one who notices that whenever the results of a women’s sports match are announced, they never tell you which sport was being played? I am always left to deduce which sport it was from listening to the scores; 86 -12 means we thrashed the Solomon Islands in netball, or was it basketball, 188 -156 means “Australia” beat the Poms in a 50 over One Day International. And the fact that I don’t recognise any of the names means it must be women’s sport.
We know why they do this, of course. Politically correct rules of language demand that if everybody knows what the sports announcer means when he says “Rafael Nadal has won the Australian Open,” it is presumed sexist if in the same report, they use the wording “Laura Geitz has top-scored for the Australian netball team against the Solomon Islands,” rather than “the Aussie captain has top-scored for Australia against the Solomon Islands,” leaving you to figure out for yourself that because she scored 47 “goals” it must have been netball, rather than “points” for basketball.
This morning, John Faine, who I have often begrudgingly acknowledged actually feigns impartiality once in a while, or at least plays devil’s advocate, was (tongue in cheek) “punished” for not knowing that an Australian Women’s Rugby League, with even an Australian representative squad, exists, by being forced to carry out a “chilli challenge” to raise awareness about raising awareness.
So, I know it was all in good fun, but let’s not pretend that we don’t know what is going on here. “Progressives” know instinctually how language affects thoughts, deeds, and one’s sense of reality. They are applying it on the ABC very deliberately – the XYZ’s dreams would come true if we could get its hands on the memo doing the rounds at the ABC directing news reporters not to mention which sport a female athlete or female team plays.
In the meantime, I will keep applying my powers of deduction.
Like most Australians, we at your XYZ were hurt and outraged when we heard last night that Australia’s favourite deputy mayor, Salim Mehajer has been slugged with a $220 fine by Auburn City Council for illegally closing off his street in what has been dubbed as the ‘wedding of the century’.
Show your support for Cr Salim, and dig deep, to help Australia’s favourite deputy mayor and bridegroom of the century pay for this outrages fine.
The link to the ‘Go Fund Me’ campaign is below:
$220 for Salim Mehajer wedding fine
So the Coroner’s inquest into the Lindt café siege is finding that the police and DPP stuffed up the bail application for Man Haron Monis. Before the left wing media get too smug about absolving the justice system, and directing blame to the police, for letting this serial nutter out on bail, I’d like to go back a step and ask, What the hell was he doing in our country anyway?
Monis turned up on a one month business visa in 1996 and was given political asylum five years later. It was subsequently found he was wanted in Iran, and that he had fabricated his claims for asylum. ASIO investigated his activities several times, but nothing happened. Most odiously of all, he began a disgraceful letter writing campaign, targeting the families of Australian soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan, in which he called the fallen soldiers ‘pigs’ and ‘dirty animals.’
At the time he walked into the Lindt café in December last year, Monis was on bail for a string sexual assault charges, and was facing charges of being an accessory to the murder of his former wife. None of this resulted in him having his citizenship even questioned or reviewed, let alone revoked. Not the vile letter writing campaign, not the false claim for asylum, not overstaying his visa, and not the string of sexual assault charges and other bizarre behaviour.
The real question in relation to Man Haron Monis is, not why was he out on bail when he walked into the Lindt café, but why was he still in this country? If he despised western culture and society so much, what the hell was he doing here? Exactly what does one have to do to get deported anyway?
The justice and bail system are not entirely at fault here. A large part of the blame must be shared by the immigration system, but such is the paralysis inflicted on us by the regime of political correctness that suffocates any rational debate and discussion in this area of public life, that questions of this nature cannot even be asked, let alone answered, unless one wants to be shouted down as a racist and ‘Islamophobe’ (whatever that actually means).
It’s much easier, and far more comfortable, just to blame the police, and a rookie DPP, and pretend we don’t have an immigration problem in this country.
Australia’s favourite deputy mayor, Salim Mehajer, has fronted his first council meeting after the fun and frivolity of his weekend wedding which caused a mixture of chaos an intrigue.
Auburn City Council in Western Sydney where Salim Mehajer serves, slapped a $220 fine on him at its meeting tonight for illegally closing his street for his Saturday wedding party.
This fine and penalty should be a lesson to everyone, not to ever bother applying and paying for a permit to close a street, because paying a piss-week $220 fine is most likely going to be much cheaper and less time consuming than actually doing things the ‘right’ way.
Although the paultry $220 fine looks comically minuscule and out of proportion in relation to wedding costs which are estimated to be into the many hundreds of thousand, this could be in fact the first little joke to emerge in what could be an interesting and entertaining few weeks ahead.
Who knows what kind of entertainment and intrigue might emerge for the punters and residents of the City of Auburn as the New South Wales Minister for Local Government and the Police force’s Middle Eastern Crime Unit carry out their own investigations into Australia’s favourite deputy mayor and bridegroom of the century.
More to come!
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BREAKING: Not content to trash the Commonwealth of Australia and portray its citizens as backward and phobic, the leftist nut-jobs who write for Crikeynow pour scorn over an international ‘liveability’ award being handed to Melbourne. So the Economist named Melbourne the world’s most liveable city for the fifth time in a row – big deal, Crikey yawned. Had Australia not had such a lamentable series and won the Ashes, the Crikey sports columnist would be demanding we hand them back as unworthy. Crikey! Take off the blindfold and the black arm band and see if you can, just for once, say something about your own country that doesn’t drip with self loathing. Or is that all too much for you?
Source: Is being “the world’s most liveable city” such a big deal?
The XYZ recently issued a challenge; to be corrected on the topic of inaction from feminists to protect the long term interests of women’s rights in the Western sphere.
We may have erred in attaching an image which encapsulated misplaced feminism as opposed to choosing an image which encapsulated imported cultural practices and ideological systems which are a slap in the face of everything that feminists ought to hold dear.
Pointedly, the image we attached was an anti-feminist ruse, design to discredit feminism. That the satire is indiscernible from the reality, and that the satire is hurriedly being ushered into the reality by feminists, is another talking point in itself. The fact no one (to our knowledge) pulled us up on this (while defending feminists in the comments we received) accentuates that the advocates of the frightbats know to simply follow the herd. Mindlessly.
Though broadly shared and commented on, we were bemused by the focus of the comments: Essentially, they do not address the key point.
One commenter told us to google away, the answer is there. That is, the definitive answer on how feminism in the West is safeguarding the rights of women in the West, including our new migrants’ women’s rights.
But, I say, google away, research away, and ye shall find: the answer is NOT there. Specifically, the XYZ was asking to be corrected on this point. We were pointed to an organisation that does nothing discernible to address the creeping attacks on women’s concerns in Western countries. Like FGM, etc etc.
The XYZ is committed to laying down the challenge until it is met. The fact it cannot be accepted is a response that needs to be highlighted. The fact that the stupidity of what passes for Western feminism is a populist source of derision speaks volumes. Basically… feminism… WTF… Its gone and fucked itself. How oppressive
Thailand’s capital was hit by two bomb blasts on Monday night. It has not been confirmed who is responsible, whether it was the “Red Shirts” political movement – for whom an act such as this, ie indiscriminate murder, would be way out of character, and would alienate it from mainstream Thais; or one of the groups fighting an Islamic insurgency – who usually, but not always, confine their attacks to the South, where they are fighting for greater autonomy/ an Islamic caliphate. It must be noted that this kind of attack is more in keeping with the practices of Islamic jihadists the world over, and it is not unusual for Thailand’s Islamic insurgents to commit terrorist acts without claiming responsibility, so as to sow maximum confusion.
So without making a call on who is responsible for Monday night’s bombings, it draws our attention to a very important question:
What the hell have the Thai people ever done, to anybody, to deserve a tiny minority of Islamic insurgents bombing and beheading their way to a 6000+ death toll in a tiny part of their country?
Has Thailand invaded Iraq for oil? (I don’t agree with this question’s underlying assumption, but it’s worth asking.). A small number of Thai troops were deployed to police the demilitarised zone between Iraq and Kuwait in 1991, after one Islamic, Middle Eastern country country invaded another Islamic, Middle Eastern country, for oil. Some bitterness may exist over Thailand’s strong contribution (1581 soldiers, and its role as Deputy Force Commander,) to the Australian led INTERFET operation, when the majority Christian East Timor split from the majority Muslim Indonesia, and international troops intervened on the ‘pretext’ that the East Timorese were being massacred. (Although the numbers were below initial fears, it appears such concern was justified.) More recently, Thailand contributed a whopping 423 troops to peacekeeping operations in Iraq in 2003-04, and allowed the US access to its ports, airspace and airfields in its efforts in the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is also considered a “major non-NATO ally,” and has been involved in many joint military exercises with the US. Does this mean Thailand deserved 320 bombings in four southern provinces in 2013 alone? Or the murder of 171 teachers in the southern border provinces between 2004 and 2014? I guess it depends who you ask.
Did Thailand invade the Levant during the Crusades? I can’t be certain, but I don’t think so. Given that actions by Europeans almost a thousand years ago, to reclaim through warfare land which had been taken from them through warfare, have been often cited to explain why Islamic terrorists behead children today, it is entirely plausible that animosity still burns over the defeat of the Sultanate of Phatani by the Kingdom of Siam in 1785. For some unknown reason, the level of violence escalated in Thaild’s southern provinces after 2001, despite there being a strong representation of Muslims in Thai politics and the military. The southern provinces are economically and educationally poorer, but are on the rise. A heavy handed approach was blamed in the early 2000’s for sparking reprisals, but a more conciliatory approach by the country’s military rulers has failed to stem the violence.
Perhaps it is to do with sweat shops? Or Child prostitution? But then, are not Thais the victims of this exploitation of their labour and their bodies, not the perpetrators? Why then would Islamic terrorists want to kill the victims of this economic exploitation, rather than the perpetrators? Thailand itself is home to hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, most from non-Muslim countries, often under insecure arrangements. And thousands of Thais also work in the Middle East, under the Kafala system, which has been likened by human rights groups to a system of modern day slavery. It all seems a little too complex to warrant the sparking of an insurgency.
More to the point, does this not reveal as rubbish the arguments of Western apologists for terror, sorry progressive academics, (and the use of this line of reasoning by such luminaries as Osama bin Laden,) that colonial/imperialist exploitation of the third world is the source of terrorism, sorry, asymmetric warfare, against the West? It brings to mind the London Bombings of 2005, when barely a day beforehand, Tony Blair announced, along with his fellow G7 leaders, that the debt of the poorest 18 countries in the world would be completely wiped out. Surely if terrorism was about colonialism, about exploitation, about racism, about US foreign policy, about capitalism, this would have been exactly the sort of thing to make a terrorist think twice about killing innocent civilians, because surely, surely it was being made clear by the West that they were taking responsibility for their actions and trying to consider those in countries less fortunate?
But no.
Perhaps, rather than perpetually trying to blame ourselves for Islamic terrorism, and thus continue to enable it, we should be looking at the nature of the religion from which, statistically, it most commonly springs?
At this point I would like to reiterate that we do not know who is responsible for the latest Bangkok bombing. But in the words of my fellow XYZ editor, Jeremy Morgan:
“The point is that regardless of who is responsible for this attack (it’s likely to be Islamists, but even still) the Islamists are waging a war in the southern part of Thailand – a nation that is 95% Buddhist.
There are other religious minorities – Christians and Hindus (it was a Hindu shrine that was attacked, after all) but are they creating insurgency? No.
The same thing that is happening in Thailand is happening elsewhere. There are Islamic insurgents in China (secular/atheist), the Philippines (95% Catholic) Burma (95% Buddhist), et al.
The world needs to wake up to Islamic insurgency/terrorism which is happening everywhere and does not discriminate against culture or religion (they even like to kill their own).
So, we don’t know who is responsible for this bombing, but we do know who is responsible for all the killing and problems which are ongoing in the south of Thailand and elsewhere.
Time to join the dots…”
There are western femi-nazis and then there is Clementine Ford. On the abuse metre, Clementine is off the scale, whatever the measurement. It is she who proudly markets t-shirts telling the Prime Minister to #&@ off, for eager activists who have not yet matured to full adulthood. Even a quick glance at her Twitter feed reminds one, without fondness, of the attention seeking postgraduates who populate long faded memories of campus piss ups, and who prided themselves on using the C-word more often per sentence than the average inmate of a women’s prison.
One can only marvel at how Clementine gets on in daily life (not the parallel universe that is The Age column of the same name, but actual daily life, in an actual community, populated by human beings and men). Picture this everyday exchange if you will.
A queue shuffles forward at a suburban bank branch.
(male) Teller: “Next please.”
Clementine: “Are you telling me what to do you sexist pig?”
(male) Teller: “Can I serve you please madam?”
Clementine: “#$#& off you #$@&-ing sexist %$#@.”
Spare a thought too for the trainee waiter who wishes Clem “a nice day,” or the theatre attendant who wants to “check her ticket,” and for those implicated in the other daily manifestations of offensive and suffocating patriarchal culture. One can only fear for the well being of the unwitting gentleman who has the nerve to be so patronising as to open a door for her, or offer her a seat on a crowded train, or God forbid, refer to her as “love,” or “darling” (the latter term rightly censored and deleted from the title of this piece as intolerably derogatory).
We at XYZ are not so uncouth or childish as to need condescend to the use of offensive expletives to make our point. However we have been known to utter an astonished “gosh” when perusing the literary treasure that is Daily Life, and marveling at the utter hell daily life in this affluent successful modern nation must be, populated by such miserable and sexist inhabitants, who are so utterly objectionable on a daily basis. Only the most stoic could survive this trauma. How long could Clementine bear it (western patriarchal society we mean) we asked ourselves in astonishment?
Just as we were pondering this curious thing, and considering what more culturally appropriate destinations there might be for our very favourite Aged columnist, Clementine herself solved it all for us with this delightfully providential piece on Umoja, Kenya. Do read on, and behold the perfection in this breathless description by the lady (or is that a sexist, insulting and objectifying term? I withdraw if so) herself.
“A recent piece in The Guardian profiled the village of Umoja, located in the grasslands of northern Kenya’s Samburu. Umoja is unique in its region in that it was founded by, and is still entirely run by, women fleeing subjugation and abuse. The village elders’ commitment to keeping women safe from physical and sexual violence is so keen that men aren’t even allowed to live in the village environs.”
It sounds like a veritable paradise, second only in order to the mythical Island inhabited by Homer’s sirens. Adios then! We expect Clementine’s next tweets will be in Swahili.
Source: When a women-only community is the answer to male violence
I love Thailand and the Thai people.
I have visited the nation about 7 or 8 times. I was last in Thailand in June for a short holiday with my wife.
The previous time I was in Thailand was during the ‘shutdown of Bangkok’ in January/February 2014. Thailand sadly continues to suffer political turbulence and uncertainty, despite the great potential that the nation has.
The motorcycle bombing in Bangkok on Monday which killed at least 20 people and injured well over one hundred others is the most serious attack in the nation for many years. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, and speculations now abounds.
The opposition ‘Red Shirt’ (those aligned with the ousted former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra) are an obvious suspect, yet such an attack clearly directed at foreigners and tourist would be grossly out of character.
What most people do not know is that for years, Thailand has been fighting an Islamic insurgency in its southern Muslim-majority provinces which has seen more than 6,400 people killed, mostly civilians. You were aware of this?
Thailand is overwhelmingly Buddhist, with around 95% of the population followers of the religion. There are of course small Christian, Hindu and Islamic minorities, and for the last decade or so, the Islamic minority in southern Thailand has been raising hell.
Another thing that the media would have told you is that Thailand has experienced terrorists attacks, very much like those that are have been the staple of the Middle East – beheadings and burnings, and their list of terrorist attacks and casualties ranks among the highest in the world, but you already knew that too?
While we don’t know for sure who is responsible for the attack in Bangkok, I know where I would put my money.
The point is that Islamism is not only waging a war in the Middle East and against Christianity and the West, as some of its main targets have been in Buddhist and other East Asian nations including Thailand, the Philippines and China. These countries have small Islamic populations that are waging wars against the rest of the nation.
As the investigation into the Bangkok terrorist attack is carried out, my thoughts and prayers are with the Thai people. May the culprits be brought to justice.
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A humbly offered, and very sincere, observation for the Royal Commission into family violence, and to the many working hard to prevent violence against women in our community. An institution of particular danger to women, and many others, in our society, is staring you in the face. It is called the justice system. It features court processes stacked in favour of the perpetrator not the victim, morally bankrupt defence lawyers, and benches occupied by pissweak magistrates and judges, who for too long have let violent offenders, with very long histories of crimes against women, out on bail or parole, or handed them wholly inadequate sentences, enabling men who should have been in prison to walk the streets in search of their next innocent victim. Masa Vukotic is one among many young women who should be alive today, and tragically is not, because the justice system is a disgrace.
Source: Masa Vukotic killer: “A timebomb of violence.”
Every now and then I wander over to the Guardian Australia website, largely in hope of being amused by the latest rant by Marxist regular Guy Rundle, who always sounds like he is writing just after landing an especially satisfying right hook on someone in a crowded front bar.
The Guardian is good too if you want to be reminded of what a complete self entitled arsehole you are, should you be a white male of Anglo-Saxon background. So if you can bear it, slap on the black armband, and come on over to the Guardian, there’s sure to be hashtag campaign to suit your own sense of personal smugness and self righteous superiority waiting for you, even as you are reminded of the objectionable racists, islamaphobes and bigots who populate the suburbs of your city and our nation’s parliament. What more could one hope for to begin a new day?
The latest lead article for the environmental hand wringers is provided by an interview with visiting Canadian author Naomi Klein, who meets one of the primary conditions for publication by being prepared to slag off at the Prime Minister and accuse him of some sort of climate crime (he is a “villain” no less – harsh words!). Reading the report on Klein, ignoring the cultural cringe, and once you get through the usual regime of discredited claims and hyperbole, the reader prepared to persevere is rewarded with this startling insight:
“Klein said the denial of climate science was prevalent in English-speaking countries such as Australia, Canada, the US and the UK because of a “colonial settler mentality.”
Before readers rush out to find someone to apologise to for their shameful colonial settler past – XYZ is pleased to provide this piece of community service by way of a brief, but somewhat pointed, review of Klein’s latest work, courtesy of today’s Australian, which quotes former chief economic analyst of Statistics Canada, Phillip Cross, thus:
“Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything won the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize, the most lucrative literary award for nonfiction in Canada. I agree it deserves a prize if we’re talking about the worst book about economics in 2014 … This Changes Everything gets one thing right. It is no coincidence that the chatter about climate change took off just after the Berlin Wall fell and capitalism emerged triumphant. Without the alternative of socialism/communism, environmentalism filled the gap as the natural home of opponents to capitalism.”
Brendan O’Neill, of the excellent Spiked blog, says what we wanted to say on Q and A, and achieves that most rare of feats on the national broadcaster – attracting applause for calling out the hateful intolerance of the new totalitarians.
link to video
ABC QandA 3 minute clip on intoleranceWatch Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked Online, on QandA, slam, in 2 minutes, gay activists, including Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, for being intolerant towards proponents of traditional marriage.
Brendan begins by saying, ‘Here’s what freaks me out about gay marriage. It presents it self as a kind of liberal, civil, rightsy issue but it has a really ugly intolerant streak to it. Anyone who opposes gay marriage is demonised…’ watch the video clip.
Posted by Friends of Marriage on Monday, August 17, 2015
One can only marvel at the breathtaking chutzpah of the ABC. For years it has been all but ritually obsessed with same sex marriage, giving ‘progressive’ advocates and activists free reign on its multiple media platforms to campaign for the change across its vast media presence. The opposing argument is rarely heard on the ABC, or trotted out purely to be smeared and sneered at, and condemned as hateful and intolerant, as was the case for the unfortunate Katy Faust on last night’s Q&A.
But now Media Watch has suddenly noticed that the significant proportion of Australians who oppose, or at the very least are uncomfortable with, same sex marriage, are being deliberately ignored, if not silenced and sidelined, by a media obsessed with the agenda handed to it by a Green Left soviet of cultural elitists. Well may Paul Barry ask “whatever happened to free speech?” If only the ABC board and its CEO and editor in chief, who is presumed to be alive though still very much missing in action, would ask themselves the same question.
Visiting Q and A, guest Katy Faust has labeled the ABC and Richard Di Natale as sexist and bigoted after a booing controversy on Q&A last night.
After a classic, but inverted gotcha moment on Q and A, when Faust highlighted blatant hypocrisy between the demand for equal female representation in parliament (based on the balance it provides) and same sex marriage, Greens Fuhrer Richard Di Natale and audience member erupted into a chorus of boos and abuse.
Tony Jones called her observations “Sexist and out of Order” and Senator Di Natale asked the audience to “Silence the insolent, bigoted bitch” at which point the booing and preparations for a lynching began in the audience mob.
Faust pointed to the offenders to have them removed and publicly shamed, however ABC management had cut across to a promo for the upcoming Zaky Mallah show.
For a good chuckle, you really must check out this hilarious pre-wedding video made for Salim Mehajer and his bride Aysha, included below.
Salim who is 29, a millionaire property developer and is also the deputy mayor of the Western Sydney municipality of Auburn attracted the ire of his neighbours and his constituents with the disruption caused by his wedding celebrations on the weekend.
The festivities included a helicopter drop-off, jet fly over, convoy of luxury cars and motor bikes, marching bands, and the illegal closure of his street.
Residents were given a letter earlier in the week, telling them to keep the streets free from cars, or have them towed. Neither the council or the police gave permission for this demand, nor did they know about it until, rather embarrassingly, during the mayhem which ensured.
Some have called it the ‘wedding of the century’, however, the fun and festivities are not likely to end there.
A police investigation will be carried out into the event, and the Minister for Local Government has also flagged that the Baird Government will carry out its own investigation.
Salim has of course said that he has nothing to hide. But I have a sneaking suspicion that the fun and frivolity has only begun.
Stay tuned!
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Following up on a recent article from the XYZ, on the silence of the frightbats, this white western male would like to lay down a challenge to women, especially western women, whom he considers his equal.
Above, a child bride. Below, a satirical tweet indistinguishable from reality.
Ladies, I believe we live in a society where you can wear what you want, work, study, travel, love, cook and co-habit as you wish. I do not even begrudge your wishes to drive, play football, cricket, marry who you want, divorce if you want or to indulge in sex or no sex with partners as you choose.
In short, I feel that ideologically I am your ally in so many ways.
On the other hand, I implore you to stop sleeping at the wheel and to once again fight for your rights, which have a real and present threat.
There is an ideological system in the West which is growing. It is drawn to the west, nurtured by the west, shielded from criticism by the west and condemns you for most of the things I have written above.
I could name the Ideology (but doing that stymies debate – although that is part of the underlying problem.)
In short, I urge you, feminists or just self respecting women, to fight for the rights of your fellow women. This is best done at home, though in reality, this is an issue which is truly horrific abroad, and drives people from that horror to Western shores. The real and present concern is that the ideas that perpetuate the horror are carried with these people into the Western sphere.
Ladies – I implore you, who stand to lose more than men, to be proactive and stand up for your rights while you hold the upper hand in the West.
The experiences from many countries in the world show that this is not an easy battle to win once the ideological system takes hold. For that reason, I take issue with the “progressives” who ignore the truly horrific root cause of the injustices we see directed by men at women in the name of this ideology. I castigate them, and all the feminists, who raise hell over trifling offences and turn a shameful blind eye at their sisters who are subjugated and objectified systemically abroad, and increasingly at home.
Consider the horrors of female genital mutilation, child marriage, enforced segregation, refused career choices, chatel-ship to male family members or your husband, physical punishment for lesbian tendencies. I am sure if you do more research, you will find so much more to raise your concern and righteous outrage.
Sisters of the west, as a man, I implore you to tap into your righteous indignation and seek to challenge and change the practices which you detest. Focusing on the greatest challenge to womens rights is not wrong – it is your duty. And I charge you, collectively, as failing in this duty.
The XYZ would proudly stand corrected on this point and we urge you all to share, in a respectful and informative fashion, evidence to the contrary.
Photo by Sheena876
Tonight’s Q and A – the same sex marriage special, reflecting longstanding ABC obsession, but we digress….
Tonight’s Q and A, in which the Greens leader Richard Di Natale actually said this – “it’s time the Liberal Party changed the Prime Minister.” But yes, that’s how it’s done in totalitarian left wing regimes of course. Bugger the people! The dear leader decides who the Prime Minister is…
Tonight’s Q and A, in which a young lady with two mums, and her mum (remarkably well briefed on US Supreme Court decisions), both get to lecture everyone (twice) about same sex marriage (cue righteous applause from the lobotomised audience)… And in which the visiting US evangelical blogger gets a moral slapdown from Sam Dastayari – Yes, Sam Dastayari, do continue reading when you have picked yourself up from the floor… and in which the same blogger suffers a devastating argument from Richard Di Natale – “that’s rubbish” – Wow, how compelling, it must be hard for the Greens to have to confine themselves to relatively civil ad hominen attacks on this forum…
Tonight’s Q and A, in which the Marxist atheist Brendon O’Neill calls out the ugly intolerance and hate-filled narrative of the gay marriage ‘progressives’ and makes a strong case for traditional Christian morality. Bravo Sir! And, last but not least, kudos and high credit to the ABC for managing what has historically seemed so hard – a relatively well balanced panel and discussion. Let the conspiracies of government intervention begin, is there a hashtag for that yet?
Poor old Mark “Biff” Latham can’t seem to hold down a job these days. The former professional hater was once the darling of the Canberra press gallery. He could do no wrong in the chamber. Even a misogynist slur at (conservative) newspaper columnist Janet Albrechtson (‘skanky ho’), cowardly uttered under the veil of parliamentary privilege, could not rouse the sisterhood in the press gallery, most of whom look perpetually on the cusp of outrage and some of whom look like they might have gone alright in the back pocket at an AFL legends game. No, the gallery were uninterested in Biff’s actual sexism, whilst only too eager to call out the current Prime Minister, and anyone else on the conservative side of politics, for any hint of it, real or imagined. Overlooked too was Biff’s penchant for rewarding taxi drivers for their services by breaking their arms. All a bit of friendly rough and tumble of course. Boys will be boys and all that. And if Biff rearranged the molecules in your left humerus or clavicle, it would be done with such grace and charm you would be obliged to smile and thank him before taking yourself off to the nearest emergency department.
Biff didn’t hold down the role of politician for very long either. A conga line of union and Labor party types were only too eager to compose a running hagiography for him before he had even achieved much at all. He was anointed by Saint Gough himself no less, and that should have told them something – Saint Gough’s judgement was so off he sent the nation broke in record time, had to be sacked for gross incompetence, and then had the distinction of losing, not once, but twice, in electoral landslides of mind numbing magnitude. After blazing across the political scene, handing out an election ending chainsaw handshake, and crashing to an inglorious defeat, a grateful Biff rewarded his dear comrades by writing a toxic memoir that exposed most of their secrets and advised the public of what a caustic mob of in-fighters they all were. Gillard and Rudd then acted it all out live in real time during the six years of ALP rule, a period in Australian political history lamented now as a six year interregnum from something resembling actual government.
None of this, however, warned the Fairfax press away from Biff, and things seemed to be going all too well over at the Fin. There are few things, really, that can get you dismissed, or put you in a ‘no option but to resign’ position over at Fairfax when it comes to insults, name calling, and juvenile political point scoring – one Age columnist even proudly sells t-shirts with unflattering captions featuring the F word and the name of the current Prime Minister.
But one thing that will certainly have a Fairfax columnist calling their lawyer to check in on current unfair dismissal legislation is an offence against the gender police. Biff could call conservative female columnists ‘skanky hos’ all he wanted, but he was never going to get away with referring to a transgender air force reservist (yes, really) as a “he/she.” Transgressions against the gender police will have most public figures reaching for their resignation letters these days, even before the twitter hashtag campaign gets going. Having roused the LGBTITGFWTRSEF (I think that has them all covered) lobby, Biff was persona non grata in the Fairfax lunch room, and that was it for his most successful career to date.
I don’t particularly like Mark Latham, but what would he care about that. If given a choice between casting a vote for him and having my left index finger amputated with bolt cutters, I would have asked them to take the one on the other hand off too. I have never read a word he has written for the Fin, and never want to. But, by hell, I support his right to fill his columns with whatever dross his editor and the newspaper’s lawyers will allow. If we have reached a state in this country that the gender of a person who has had their genitalia bolted on by a surgeon must be shielded from being referred to in such a way as to imply gender uncertainty, then free speech is great peril indeed.
If the Fin compelled Biff to resign they are cowards, and the editor in chief is fair game for one of those famous bone-crushing handshakes too. Bring back the Biff I say!
Source: Mark Latham resigns as columnist for Australian Financial Review – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Dear me.
Dear, dear me.
You know that progressives are scraping the bottom of the barrel of their rather shallow politics when articles such as the one written by Kevin McKenna, entitled Say what you will about North Korea… and published in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper see the light of day.
McKenna first begins by admitting his “fondness” for North Korea, and we would expect nothing less from a self-confessed lefty.
But allow me to share some of the gold nuggets from his article.
If the poor North Koreans managed to get onto the internet and see the Western news (I know, I know, the plausibility factor, but please humour McKenna for a moment) they would learn:
“for centuries the UK has been governed by a tiny elite drawn from some of the most privileged families in the UK and that we, the idiot punters, all think we’re in a democracy.”
And this:
“…despite possessing riches beyond the imagination of North Korea, we have one of the most unequal societies in the world. To their horror, they would also discover that hundreds of thousands of UK children live in grinding poverty.”
And:
“They would wonder why we’ve never risen up against a regime that spends billions on nuclear weapons and has been in a state of perpetual war for more than 300 years.”
And this sparkling diamond:
“They would draw their children close when it was revealed that we allow the United States, the most reactionary country in the world and one that gives its police officers carte blanche to execute black people, to dictate our foreign policy and to torture horribly some of our own citizens on trumped-up charges of terrorism. And they would immediately dismiss it as a spoof. For how could any people in the so-called civilised west allow their government to treat them in such a fashion?”
It must be a fascinating imaginary world in which people like Kevin McKenna live, where one’s suspension of disbelief extends to believing that North Korea and Western nations exist on the same spectrum for comparison. I know, it’s not reason or logic, but their sense of guilt and self-loathing which allows them to live in a world of such cognitive dissonance. The kind of cognitive dissonance of one who worships the ground Barack Obama walks on but despises the United States.
Whilst I am tempted to go off into another tirade about the twilight of so called ‘progressive’ politics and that fact that it has (or perhaps always) has been intellectually untenable, I won’t. I will say something else.
People like Kevin McKenna at best trivialise, but mostly just ignore the suffering, the grinding suffering and death that takes place under regimes such as North Korea and formerly took place under its socialist ancestors. To compare the poverty of those in the West to those in North Korea mocks the suffering, poverty and atrocities that have taken place in North Korea, including the starvation of between 24,000 and 3.5 million North Koreas in the 1990s.
Now, I’m not going to try and convince you that the democratic West offers a political system and society vastly superior to those in the rest of the world. I don’t need to convince you, but perhaps the scores who have tried to cross over from North Korea to the South, and the millions who have dared to escape the Communist Utopia of Cuba in the perilous sea journey in leaky boats to the bad old United States will have a go.
Not to mention the hundreds of thousands, even millions who are currently fleeing Africa and the Middle East to try and get a foothold into Europe and Australia.
I won’t try and convince you, but they probably will.
It’s the XYZ.
At first glance the story looked and read like a genuine news article. It was only when you got to the bit about Greens leader Richard Di Natale telling the interviewer that he and his colleagues has considered asking for the Sydney Opera house to be painted black that things got a little weird.
The Stately Harold reported Di Natale as saying: “I think we need to focus a lot more on openness and tolerance… I think it’s important that we as Australians actually send a symbolical, clear message that we’re open to anyone who needs help. I have actually talked with colleagues about potentially painting the Sydney Opera House black in order to show the world that we accept people of all skin colours. The whiteness of the building is a sign of archaic, racist times when Australia was full of white people without rhythm or culture. People coming over from overseas I would then be reassured in their belief that they’re welcome in our multicultural Australia.”
Although the Stately Harold is not as “stately” as it claims, and the quote is the product of someone with a fertile mind and too much time on their hands, that many will have read it as fact, rather than satire, says something about the Australian Greens, and their penchant for thinking the very worse of their fellow citizens.
One could quite easily imagine, without too much effort at all, the much spied on Senator Hanson-Young vigorously denouncing the “colonial whiteness” of the stars on the current Australian flag, and insisting they be rainbow coloured instead. One could easily hear Comrade Rhiannon, too, having trouble distinguishing her dreams from reality, and telling the party room that fascist choirs were gathering nightly in the apartheid era Opera House to sing the Horst Wessell song. Such is the Green Left estimation of the Australian people and their history.
Fact and satire, fiction and fantasy, are never far from the surface with the Greens. This one may have been satire, but how long will be until one of them really does say of the Opera house – “paint it black?”
Source: thestatelyharold | The Greens want to paint the Sydney Opera House black to welcome immigrants
So, moving on from this guff, am I the only one who notices that whenever the results of a women’s sports match are announced, they never tell you which sport was being played? I am always left to deduce which sport it was from listening to the scores; 86 -12 means we thrashed the Solomon Islands in netball, or was it basketball, 188 -156 means “Australia” beat the Poms in a 50 over One Day International. And the fact that I don’t recognise any of the names means it must be women’s sport.
We know why they do this, of course. Politically correct rules of language demand that if everybody knows what the sports announcer means when he says “Rafael Nadal has won the Australian Open,” it is presumed sexist if in the same report, they use the wording “Laura Geitz has top-scored for the Australian netball team against the Solomon Islands,” rather than “the Aussie captain has top-scored for Australia against the Solomon Islands,” leaving you to figure out for yourself that because she scored 47 “goals” it must have been netball, rather than “points” for basketball.
This morning, John Faine, who I have often begrudgingly acknowledged actually feigns impartiality once in a while, or at least plays devil’s advocate, was (tongue in cheek) “punished” for not knowing that an Australian Women’s Rugby League, with even an Australian representative squad, exists, by being forced to carry out a “chilli challenge” to raise awareness about raising awareness.
So, I know it was all in good fun, but let’s not pretend that we don’t know what is going on here. “Progressives” know instinctually how language affects thoughts, deeds, and one’s sense of reality. They are applying it on the ABC very deliberately – the XYZ’s dreams would come true if we could get its hands on the memo doing the rounds at the ABC directing news reporters not to mention which sport a female athlete or female team plays.
In the meantime, I will keep applying my powers of deduction. 
A humbly offered, and very sincere, observation for the Royal Commission into family violence, and to the many working hard to prevent violence against women in our community. An institution of particular danger to women, and many others, in our society, is staring you in the face. It is called the justice system. It features court processes stacked in favour of the perpetrator not the victim, morally bankrupt defence lawyers, and benches occupied by pissweak magistrates and judges, who for too long have let violent offenders, with very long histories of crimes against women, out on bail or parole, or handed them wholly inadequate sentences, enabling men who should have been in prison to walk the streets in search of their next innocent victim. Masa Vukotic is one among many young women who should be alive today, and tragically is not, because the justice system is a disgrace.
Source: Masa Vukotic killer: “A timebomb of violence.” 
Every now and then I wander over to the Guardian Australia website, largely in hope of being amused by the latest rant by Marxist regular Guy Rundle, who always sounds like he is writing just after landing an especially satisfying right hook on someone in a crowded front bar.
The Guardian is good too if you want to be reminded of what a complete self entitled arsehole you are, should you be a white male of Anglo-Saxon background. So if you can bear it, slap on the black armband, and come on over to the Guardian, there’s sure to be hashtag campaign to suit your own sense of personal smugness and self righteous superiority waiting for you, even as you are reminded of the objectionable racists, islamaphobes and bigots who populate the suburbs of your city and our nation’s parliament. What more could one hope for to begin a new day?
The Stately Harold reported Di Natale as saying: “I think we need to focus a lot more on openness and tolerance… I think it’s important that we as Australians actually send a symbolical, clear message that we’re open to anyone who needs help. I have actually talked with colleagues about potentially painting the Sydney Opera House black in order to show the world that we accept people of all skin colours. The whiteness of the building is a sign of archaic, racist times when Australia was full of white people without rhythm or culture. People coming over from overseas I would then be reassured in their belief that they’re welcome in our multicultural Australia.”
Although the Stately Harold is not as “stately” as it claims, and the quote is the product of someone with a fertile mind and too much time on their hands, that many will have read it as fact, rather than satire, says something about the Australian Greens, and their penchant for thinking the very worse of their fellow citizens.
One could quite easily imagine, without too much effort at all, the much spied on Senator Hanson-Young vigorously denouncing the “colonial whiteness” of the stars on the current Australian flag, and insisting they be rainbow coloured instead. One could easily hear Comrade Rhiannon, too, having trouble distinguishing her dreams from reality, and telling the party room that fascist choirs were gathering nightly in the apartheid era Opera House to sing the Horst Wessell song. Such is the Green Left estimation of the Australian people and their history.
Fact and satire, fiction and fantasy, are never far from the surface with the Greens. This one may have been satire, but how long will be until one of them really does say of the Opera house – “paint it black?”
Source: thestatelyharold | The Greens want to paint the Sydney Opera House black to welcome immigrants