Politics

Unbelievable. 20 years ago it was amusing. Now it’s just pathetic. And, in the current international diplomatic climate, alarming. And I couldn’t give a shit about Indonesia, I’m talking about the increased possibility of this insane spawn of madmen coming into fruition. If a single cent of the federal treasury goes into this cockamamie stunt [...]

Continue Reading Wankers and their shiny new toys

HMG have dreamed up another gravity-defying solution to the problem of immigrants to Britain not being assimilated into the native populace: A new consultation document suggests that would-be Britons would take a new pledge of loyalty to the UK and observe the national anthem. Local dignitaries – the mayor or MP, perhaps – would be [...]

Continue Reading Greetings, non-white man! Welcome to British officialdom!

There’s something so disappointingly repugnant about representatives of a minority unanimously agreeing to stoop to the lowest common denominator by caving into the intellectual bankruptcy of our times and adopting a self-styled “politically-correct” nomenclature. So the term “atheist” has misguided connotations of anarchy, communism and nihilism. Whose frigging problem is that? The masses of ignorant, [...]

Continue Reading Yeah, fuck this “Brights” shit

Holy shit! Liberia really exists! At least, it does now that “America has bowed to international pressure” (as the BBC News 24 anchorman put it earlier this morning). In fact it now exists so well the BBC are headlining it for the first time (though not on their website). Liberia, we were told, was “founded [...]

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A new dirty tricks campaign to embarrass the Democratic front runner, John Kerry, backfired ignominiously yesterday when it emerged that a widely circulated photograph of a protest against the Vietnam war was a crude forgery. The photograph, falsely credited to Associated Press, combined two separate images to make it appear as if Mr Kerry shared [...]

Continue Reading Huh? This is just stupid

In 48 hours the election will be all over. Oh god, Howard’s gunna win, I just know it. I can’t stand it. He needs to go. He doesn’t deserve it. He’s a liar. He’s a fear-mongerer. He doesn’t care. It’s all about the history books. People are too fucking dumb to see through his bullshit. [...]

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Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has accused Opposition leader Mark Latham of having a confused position on Australia’s military relationship with the United States… …”I think a good politician is somebody who stands very clearly for things and in his case I have no idea what he stands for.” Mr Latham says he supports the joint [...]

Continue Reading Downer wants clarity from Latham on US ties

by Alan Ramsey It has been a wonderful week for the absurd. The compulsory school flagpoles were bad enough. Yet nothing quite matched the pomposity or ridiculousness of Brendan Nelson (Federal Education Minister), the Sydney Liberal infamous for abandoning his earring to become a Howard minister, when he stood beside his patron and Prime Minister [...]

Continue Reading Not only flags flying in a lot of hot wind