Saturday, January 31, 2004
Mr Dyke; close enough = good enough
This man has a hide thicker than a rhino's.
It's the most important thing they publish in years, it virtually accuses the British PM of tampering with intelligence so he could go to war, causes a suicide, results in an inquiry and some aspects were right?
What's more he seems to be indignant, as if some aspects being right is justification and how dare he be questioned.
But then Mr Dyke is not your average wage earning prole:
That's AU$1.1M or US$860 000 which puts Mr dyke firmly in the "out of touch" bracket.
Mr Dyke had apologised for errors in the report but defended the BBC's right to cover the issue, noting that some aspects of the story were right.
It's the most important thing they publish in years, it virtually accuses the British PM of tampering with intelligence so he could go to war, causes a suicide, results in an inquiry and some aspects were right?
What's more he seems to be indignant, as if some aspects being right is justification and how dare he be questioned.
But then Mr Dyke is not your average wage earning prole:
The report will show that Mr Dyke took a small pay cut last year - his total salary went down by £5,000 to £464,000. The figure includes a basic pay of £368,000, bonus of £88,000 and "taxable benefits" worth £8,000.
That's AU$1.1M or US$860 000 which puts Mr dyke firmly in the "out of touch" bracket.
SMH Letters #1
Nothing Lord Hutton says will change the fact that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction.
Peter Olive, Marrickville, January 29
5000 kurds disagree.
Of course I'm nit picking here, what Peter should have written is that Iraq didn't have weaponised WMD when the regime fell. The fact that Saddam had WMD, used WMD, had facilities to create WMD and was developing more WMD is irrelevant to the "Bush Lied" crowd.
But the real reason Peter's letter gets a mention?
Cause I don't give a shit about why Iraq is free now. 26 million people in Iraq don't either.
Fish + Barrel + Me = interesting?
In the interest of finding and deriding the looniest of moonbats I'm going to copy the most bizarre rubbish from the Silly Morning Himler letters page on a more or less daily basis.
What could beeasier lazier?
What could be
Progress
The year is 1940.
If you knew a 3 year old girl was being raped (as she had syphilis) would it be reasonable to remove the child from the family? If the child was removed from this situation and raised by nuns would you expect her to sue the agency responsible and ask for an apology decades later?
Probably not. Unless the child was an aboriginal. In which case we'd be talking about the so called Stolen Generation.
Fast forward to politically correct 2004.
Aboriginal activists, inquiries and lawsuits have taught us that we should not interfere with aboriginal "culture". So this syphilitic 3 year old girl and her little friends are going to have to grow up with being raped and abused daily.
But look on the bright side; chances are she won't live long enough to sue the government.
If you knew a 3 year old girl was being raped (as she had syphilis) would it be reasonable to remove the child from the family? If the child was removed from this situation and raised by nuns would you expect her to sue the agency responsible and ask for an apology decades later?
Probably not. Unless the child was an aboriginal. In which case we'd be talking about the so called Stolen Generation.
Fast forward to politically correct 2004.
Aboriginal activists, inquiries and lawsuits have taught us that we should not interfere with aboriginal "culture". So this syphilitic 3 year old girl and her little friends are going to have to grow up with being raped and abused daily.
But look on the bright side; chances are she won't live long enough to sue the government.
Friday, January 30, 2004
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Hands up who thought the two idiots who painted the imaginative "no War" on the opera house would receive a slap on the wrist.
Wrong!
Today a new concept enters the socialist language:
con·se·quence n.
1. Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition. See Synonyms at effect.
2. The relation of a result to its cause.
3. A logical conclusion or inference.
Wrong!
NSW District Court Judge Anthony Blackmore today sentenced the pair to nine months weekend jail and ordered they jointly pay $111,000 compensation to the Sydney Opera House Trust.
Today a new concept enters the socialist language:
con·se·quence n.
1. Something that logically or naturally follows from an action or condition. See Synonyms at effect.
2. The relation of a result to its cause.
3. A logical conclusion or inference.
More to the Israeli prisoner swap?
I'm trying to figure out what the Israeli's are hoping to acheive with massively lopsided prisoner swaps where they release hundreds of militants for dead bodies and a businessman.
So far I've come up with:
Significant numbers of the released are now working for the Israeli's,
Releasing 435 prisoners may be a another way of "giving them enough rope",
It shows the rest of the world which side is the good guys,
Maybe they know the US is going into the Bekaa Valley and they hope these prisoners will go there to die fighting them.
The chance that none of these guys will end up killing an Israeli is nil. So I'm hoping the Israeli's have some sort of plan here because the price for one businessman and 3 dead bodies is otherwise ludicrously high.
The Hezbollah say they are now planning on kidnapping soldiers so they can have more prisoners released.
So far I've come up with:
Significant numbers of the released are now working for the Israeli's,
Releasing 435 prisoners may be a another way of "giving them enough rope",
It shows the rest of the world which side is the good guys,
Maybe they know the US is going into the Bekaa Valley and they hope these prisoners will go there to die fighting them.
The chance that none of these guys will end up killing an Israeli is nil. So I'm hoping the Israeli's have some sort of plan here because the price for one businessman and 3 dead bodies is otherwise ludicrously high.
The Hezbollah say they are now planning on kidnapping soldiers so they can have more prisoners released.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Global Warming. Please?
Clearly someone forgot to tell the British weather how it is expected to behave during this global warming crisis.
Oh, and the American weather.
Oh, and the American weather.
Washinton Times: Iraqi govt. papers: Saddam bribed Chirac
If the story coming out via the independent Baghdad newspaper al-Mada detailing individuals who were paid bribes by Saddam are true then all hell will break loose in France. The Washinton Times are now covering it.
However, for my money this is a very big if.
However, for my money this is a very big if.
Confusion ahead for democrat voters
SMH Online
Today the SMH had these three headlines:
Latham's plea: back me on refugees
followed immediately by:
'Number one' people smuggler jailed 12 years
then:
BBC rocked as chairman quits over Kelly affair
The 29th of January is evidently "Sucks to be a Socialist" day.
Latham's plea: back me on refugees
followed immediately by:
'Number one' people smuggler jailed 12 years
then:
BBC rocked as chairman quits over Kelly affair
The 29th of January is evidently "Sucks to be a Socialist" day.
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
SMS suprise
Apparently Telstra is not a charity. In other news, some teenagers are cretins.
With any luck this prick's rampant mobile phone use will lead to testicular cancer so he cannot breed.
With any luck this prick's rampant mobile phone use will lead to testicular cancer so he cannot breed.
The ADF and drugs
Recently there have been stories of drugs being used in the "other ranks" of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) at Robertson Barracks near Darwin. This is a direct result of poor recruiting and leaders hamstrung by political correctness.
Officer cadets are lured with the promise of a free university degree and there is no mention of serving your country in the advertising. Other ranks are promised adventure then sent with minimal training (recruit training now lasts only 6 weeks in the Army) to a shithole like Robertson. Some adventure.
They are then "administered" by NCOs and SNCOs who are not allowed to swear at or punish their delicate charges. It's hardly suprising they do drugs.
At least when they were bastardising each other they were too busy to get stoned.
Officer cadets are lured with the promise of a free university degree and there is no mention of serving your country in the advertising. Other ranks are promised adventure then sent with minimal training (recruit training now lasts only 6 weeks in the Army) to a shithole like Robertson. Some adventure.
They are then "administered" by NCOs and SNCOs who are not allowed to swear at or punish their delicate charges. It's hardly suprising they do drugs.
At least when they were bastardising each other they were too busy to get stoned.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
More to the "No WMD" story
From Dr Kay's mouth:
Hmm, if all Special Republican Guard senior officers believed that the others had WMD then how is it suprising that western intelligence services got it wrong? After all if you buy a heap of officers off and then ask them if Saddam has WMD and they all say "yes" then what are you supposed to think?
The former Iraqi officers reported that no Special Republican Guard units had chemical or biological weapons, he said. But all of the officers believed that some other Special Republican Guard unit had chemical weapons.
"They all said they didn't have it, but they thought other units had it," Dr. Kay said.
Hmm, if all Special Republican Guard senior officers believed that the others had WMD then how is it suprising that western intelligence services got it wrong? After all if you buy a heap of officers off and then ask them if Saddam has WMD and they all say "yes" then what are you supposed to think?
BBC covering it's tracks?
What exactly is the BBC up to here?
I've tried the search and it's looking like this idea was squashed. Maybe someone in touch with reality had a quiet word.
Weird.
I've tried the search and it's looking like this idea was squashed. Maybe someone in touch with reality had a quiet word.
Weird.
Some housekeeping
Doing my bit for our national airline, Qantas. I personally only fly Qantas for business and always fly Virgin domestically (cute 18yo girlies serving drinks). Yobbo now flies Singapore for obvious reasons.
Been a while, eh?
Been elsewhere.
Back.
Back.
