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25-7-02
More
fun conservative-bashing
Richard Roeper
does this marvellous
takedown of airhead Ann Coulter. I'm bewildered why so many of my
fellow non-left comrades are so in love with this peroxide bathplug. She's
as much of a flake as Richard Neville. The fact that she's right-wing
and better dressed doesn't give her a right to stupidity.
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Miranda
Devine and Nanny State conservatism
Former Murdoch
columnist Miranda Devine is the kind of conservative who gives me assgas:
the strong nanny-statist, who believes the government is there to stop
us doing naughty things to ourselves.
In today's
Sydney
Morning Herald article, she's blathering about the evils of pokie
machines.
As for
the drinkers, it's hard to find anyone who likes what poker machines
have done to their pubs. The sickly lights, the cheerful jingles, the
rows of zombies wasting countless hours in the most mindless pursuit
known to man. You might as well be dead.
How about
this for an idea Miranda: maybe they can - A) not put their money in the
machines, B) go somewhere else. Odd that Devine should spout personal
responsibility in regards to crime-n-punishment issues but ignore it when
it comes to someone spending their own money.
Five
years after poker machines became an institution in the state's pubs
it's hard to find a Sydneysider who doesn't still resent them
Well, except
for the thousands that use them, and the many of thousands who couldn't
give a shit one way or the other. If noone likes them, what the hell do
you have to worry about? Won't the problem go away by itself?
Since
the Government liberalised gaming laws in 1997, hotels have become nothing
more than gaming parlours, as poker machines become more profitable
than beer.
Well bugger
me... pub owners are doing something which gives the punters what they
want and makes them more money. Who'd have thought?
While
hoteliers grow fat on poker machine riches, after five years on the
pokie teat the NSW Government is addicted to the revenue, expected to
be $779 million next financial year.
Pardon me
Miranda, but what the fuck are you on about? The same hoteliers who are
being somehow coerced into taking these massively popular machines, and
now the evil bastards "growing fat on poker machine riches?".
This woman is in a serious state of confusion.
Australia
has 20 per cent of the world's poker machines, five times more than
the United States. Because we can, we spend six times as much of our
retail spending dollar on gambling as the British, who are just about
to liberalise their own gaming laws, to their eternal regret.
This is the
First Principle of socialism Miranda, are you aware of that? "don't
give people freedom of choice - they'll do stuff we don't like!!."
And
while pubs only have 30 per cent of the nation's pokies at present,
they have minted a new breed of victim, according to gambling researchers.
The blue-collar worker aged between 18 and 35 who used to drop into
the pub for a drink after work has been found to be dropping $50 or
$100 on the pokies as well. Imagine the pay cheques blown, the families
broken up, lives destroyed.
The hypocrisy
of the right-wing statist: people have responsibility for themselves,
except when it comes to them choosing to spend their money on something
they want. Much like booze, drugs, hookers and porn. I love it
when these wankers wave the flag of liberty when it comes to doing their
tax return, but ditch it as soon as non-christian behaviour raises it's
head.
Hah!
The Productivity Commission has estimated the booming gambling industry
costs society up to $2.9billion annually in associated social problems,
outstripping the cost of illicit drugs ($890 million) and alcohol ($2.4billion)
as a social problem.
Yeah, we
can ban gambling maybe. That will be so effective in solving the
problem. Just like our marvellous success in the "war against drugs".
Miranda must draw great comfort in keeping her head in her ass.
But
we don't hear about poker machine harm minimisation. Banning neon lights
just doesn't cut it.
"Harm
minimisation" - we're going to stop you spending your
money on something you want. At least the Bolsheviks are consistent
in their totalitarian bullshit. Miranda's commitment to the principles
of democratic liberty seems somewhat dubious, to say the least. It's the
same moralistic hypocrisy that pollutes many conservative politicians
the world over. Stop trying to save us and leave us alone, you bastards.
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African
Psycho goes...um....more psycho
Zimbabwe
president Robert Mugabe - owner of the world's silliest
mustache and ISO pinup-boy - is
now attacking the aid agencies who are trying to feed the people he is
starving to death.
With
riot police encircling the capital on Tuesday, Mr Mugabe opened parliament
by denouncing the countries supplying aid to Zimbabwe's starving millions.
At the
first sitting since his disputed election victory in March, Mr Mugabe
said donors were trying to impose "sinister" political and
economic agendas "under cover of humanitarian aid".
"No-one
takes advantage of our stomachs to get to the soul of our sovereignty,"
he said.
Robert Mugabe
- the first leader in history to be afraid of a coup d'etat via
sandwich.
Denouncing
what he called "Western bullies" interfering in his country's
affairs, President Robert Mugabe has rejected warnings that Zimbabwe
faces famine as early as September and said economic recovery depends
on land redistribution.
He's very
big on this land distribution caper. This is where Mugabe's armed thugs
invade a farm, kill the white farmer, realise they have no idea how to
grow crops or raise livestock, then start robbing nearby villages when
they begin to starve. But hey, it's better than being bossed around by
old whitey!!
In June,
the US gave Zimbabwe 8500 tonnes of maize but a further 10,000 tonnes
was rejected because it did not have a certificate saying it had not
been genetically modified.
Never let
it be said Mugabe doesn't have his priorities in order. He will no doubt
be applauded by deluded
westerners for rejecting evil corporate polluted food.
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Black
idiots
Check out
these dickheads. They named Robert
Mugabe their man
of the year for 2001.
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Listen
to this man
Middle-East
commentator Daniel Pipes
The Israelis
have clearly made a mistake, and need to be more careful. It's a tragedy.
We must all urge the Israelis to approach these problems more carefully.
That said,
it is also important to realize that the Palestinians have the moral
opprobrium here in having the leaders of their military in civilian
areas. There is no distinction, and they are making it I think on purpose
a target for the Israelis so that when the Israelis do strike, it's
likely that they will have civilian casualties.
So, the
Israelis have got to be more careful, but the Palestinians are not playing
fair. You don't put your military men in houses with children.
[...] Military
installations in the Palestinian areas are consistently found in civilian
areas. So, what one finds all the time is the Israelis are trying very
hard to avoid taking-inflicting casualties and sometimes even taking
themselves.
You remember,
a few months ago, some 13 Israelis were killed because they fell into
a booby trap. So, it happens both ways. I mean, I'm in no way apologizing
for what the Israelis have done today. I'm just saying there's a context,
and it's one which is tragic.
But it's
one in which this man, Salah Shehadeh, has a very important role. He
is one of the founders of the military wing of Hamas. He was in Israeli
jail for 14 years, from 1984 to 1998. He's a close associate of the
leader of Hamas, Ahmed Yassin. He's been, as was indicated earlier,
on the top of the Israelis' most wanted list for some months now. The
Israelis did blow up his house actually in December of last year. He
is their target and he is, as I said before, and I think it's fair to
say, he's making sure that he's surrounded by his wife, his children
and other civilians.
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Lance
Armstrong shoves it up the French
This cancer
survivor is gonna win his 4th consecutive Tour De France. Isn't that delicious?
Seeing some yanqui crap all over the best Europe has to offer (including
crybaby drug-cheat asswipes Richard Virenque and Marco Pantani) must be
making the Euro (and especially french) journalists internally haemorrhage.
The snivelling
French pissheads are still accusing Armstrong of being a drug cheat,
despite years of investigations that have shown nothing. Yet they cheer
B-grade has-been Virenque who IS a drug cheat.
Go Armstrong,
Go!!
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"Holy"
Shit
Little
Green Footballs posts these charming anti-Israel
sermons broadcasted on government-sponsored muslim media channels.
Here's one from Saudi state TV....
He prays:
"O God, support our brother mujahidin for your sake everywhere.
O God, grant them victory in Palestine, Kashmir, and Chechnya. O God,
deal with the aggressor Jews and all aggressive infidels. O God, deal
with them for they are within your power."
And the
civilised world is supposed to "listen" to these fruitcakes.....
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The
Gaza Attack
As usual,
Pejman says
it good....
Unlike
the false apologies offered by the Palestinian Authority for dead Israelis,
I don't mourn the deaths of innocent Palestinians merely because it
might cause political problems for the Israelis.
Instead,
I mourn their deaths because they have been placed in the line of fire
by a number of militant terrorists who have absolutely no compunction
whatsoever about using Palestinian civilians as targets and killing
machines. I find it continually horrifying that Palestinians are brainwashed
into using their own bodies as instruments of terro by volunteering
to serve as suicide bombers. I find it horrifying as well that Palestinian
terrorists who have given themselves to the cause of an armed struggle
against the Israelis, would so callously and so ruthlessly use Palestinian
civilians as human shields. It should be noted that terrorists like
the Hamas leader who was killed yesterday, decided to live among civilians,
and base his operations from a geographical area that was populated
by civilians. It is impossible not to come to the conclusion that this
tactic is designed to maximize the possibility that any Israeli strike
against Palestinian terrorists causes the deaths of innocent civilians--deaths
that the terrorists and their apologists and sympathizers will be able
to exploit for propaganda purposes. After all, human life isn't nearly
as important as good PR for Yasser Arafat, and his various and sundry
bootlickers.
In any
event, the deaths of innocents are to be grieved--no matter what side
they take in this struggle. And I grieve unequivocally for the deaths
of the innocent Palestinian civilians.
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