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Location: Jerusalem. Later, Tel Aviv.
Mission: Apparently to eat fourteen types of of fish at every meal. In between times, talking to folk. Column this weekend.
Most alarming tourist t-shirt seen thus far: GUNS ‘N’ MOSES. A few hundred yards from the Wailing Wall.
More soon.
Wow! I can’t wait to hear all about it.
Re: fish—a friend of mine’s parents went to Israel several years ago. Her mother had a variety of digestive problems, so the average American breakfast had always been a problem for her. She was thrilled that things like fish and salad were served at breakfast.
Now I want some bagels with lox. That’s one thing I miss about Miami—Jewish delis everywhere. Orlando has Einstein Brothers—it’s just not the same thing.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 12 12 at 01:10 PM • permalink
Haha, funny OT story. I happen to have my passport when I sat in a study group with this Israeli exchange student, where I happen to show my Malaysian passport and the specific page it says I can’t go to Israel.
Which means, I really really want to go Israel, but the only way to do so while avoiding arrest in Malaysia (while keeping my increasingly worthless passport – I kinda like the picture) is to go on some sort of religious pilgrimage.
Of course, I lied. My passport picture sucks.
But meh, I hate fish.
OK, here we go again – Tim, get yourself some ice cream. Seriously.
Hey, Tim, if you get near Arrafat’s grave, give the old bugger half a peace sign for me, would you?
Thanks!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 12 12 at 01:20 PM • permalink
“This fish is good enough for Jehovah!”
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 12 12 at 01:48 PM • permalink
#7, right, I remember when Malaysia banned the film Schindler’s List. Because it was one sided.
Of course, as much as Malaysia has suffered at the hands of the Joooos it’s not at all surprising that your national policy is to support their extermination.
By the way, I hear you guys have suddenly popped into the top ten Gaia rapers’ list. Watch out for The Goreacle!
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 12 12 at 01:58 PM • permalink
#8 Dave: I have to confess that I’m kind of intrigued by your “bad link”. What’s going on in Georgia? Was Jimmy Carter accidentally shelled to death in a nut sorter?
I believe Tim is in the middle east in order to heal the rift between Israelis and Palestinians through laugh therapy; all he’s got to do is show them some of his post titles.
Does Nancy Pelosi know about this ?
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 12 12 at 02:52 PM • permalink
Tim please bring back some goats. I’ve long since worn out Pogria’s and eaten it.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 12 12 at 03:12 PM • permalink
No kae, I did not leave Tim somewhere. Just like my wife. I made one mistake unfortunate occurrence and you bring it up over and over.
I mean, gee whiz, every time we have a VRWC meeting and someone is late, must you ask in a rather loud voice whether I accidently left that person in 14th century France like Stoop Davy Dave? Only to see that missing person walk in two minutes later. At which point, you shout “he came back!”. I mean must you do that at every meeting?
Posted by wronwright on 2007 12 12 at 03:26 PM • permalink
GUNS ‘N’ MOSES. A few hundred yards from the Wailing Wall.
but only a few feet from Wailing Jennings…
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 12 12 at 03:30 PM • permalink
Tim, are you writing a book? If I may be so bold, could I suggest the working title, “My Israel Question”?
For a cover, I suggest using Dave S.’s ice cream photo. That way, no one will mistake your art for Loewenstein’s crap.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 12 12 at 03:48 PM • permalink
#9 You won’t get Israeli men hesitating when asked “Does my bum look fat in this?”
#15 Heal the rift? You’ve got to be joking. What sort of VRWC talk is that? The peace talks will be going amazingly well, until…(details of operation to be available under FOI in 50 years)…then Tim starts posting again in Australia like nothing’s happened.
And now, for any moonbat out there feeling a little low in energy…
#27 Until you find Stoop, yes we do. No one gets left behind!
And tell Crichton to stop basing his stories on restricted access information. (Just because we gave him the facts on Global Warming doesn’t give him license to write anything he likes).
Most alarming accurate tourist t-shirt seen thus far: GUNS ‘N’ MOSES.
There – fixed that for ya’, Tim. 😀
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 12 12 at 04:31 PM • permalink
Great picture here of chicks with guns.
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 12 12 at 04:38 PM • permalink
I think Tim’s putting a brave face on it. His dissent is being crushed and he has been deported by the new piggy overlords!
- Aaaargh! Another conservative has been exported by the new farmyard commissars!
Guess who …
At the moment I am in Israel …
#27, #34 – Look, Wron, it’s not that we don’t trust you with the T.A.R.D.I.S. – we just wish you’d stop drinking so much while on assignment. I mean, inviting a dozen Neanderthals in just to “blow their puny little minds” isn’t exactly “professional”, in my opinion. And as for getting pissed to the gills and letting that 14th-century guy in Vinci steal the damn thing for a full week…
One of many designs of Guns & Moses shirts. My personal fave, and not just because of the hottie model.
I bet Tim’s there to learn Krav Maga.
BTW, My Final Solution to the Jewish Israel Question is currently 1,395,166 on Amazon.
I saw it yesterday in a uni bookshop. It was under a table of cheap sellers right next to Fung Shui for dummies
Posted by Just passing by on 2007 12 12 at 06:27 PM • permalink
“Our Commandments go to 11.”—Nigel Tufnel
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2007 12 12 at 06:54 PM • permalink
Location: Jerusalem. Later, Tel Aviv.
About time you visited your paymaster and ghostwriter.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 12 at 07:16 PM • permalink
Watch out for the Jew only transit lanes. The toll booth has wholesale prices.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 12 at 07:22 PM • permalink
Click on “Pearson calls for end to passive welfare”
The best 10min 12 secs you’ll spend today.
Watch yourself, Tim. There is a delegation of WA politicians currently in Israel also. Being seen within them wold be very bad for your reputation both in Israel and at home. WTF they are doing there is beyond me, unless they are thinking about building a wall around Fremantle to keep all the hippies in.
- OT, but I’m still laughing at a headline in the (normally sensible) Australian:
Rudd playing hard ball with USI hope he’s not too rough on them.Also, Fran Kelly on Radio National this morning referred to Rudd as “our Prime Minister”. Could be wrong, but I’m betting she never referred to Howard like that.
OT – Presbyterian Fashion Critic
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 12 at 08:11 PM • permalink
#9, #36 – you don’t have to go to Israel to find heavily-armed hotties. Following the ‘Fifty Australians’ link in the ‘Second Thoughts’ thread, I found Cpl. Kirsty Hearn, Peter Cosgrove’s bodyguard in East Timor, 1999.
Posted by David Morgan on 2007 12 12 at 08:28 PM • permalink
- #61
To go with the Pearson link, checkthis out.Peter Beattie’s sorry. Again. Well, he SHOULD be. He said (among other things):
The problems in Arukun are the result of 200 years of bad policy.
So, what exactly did you DO about these bad policies when you were in a position to actually DO something about them?
Empty vessel.
This could be the first time I’ve seen scare quotes around the word ‘murder’ in a headline. Oh, and when a dad ‘murders’ his daughter in an argument over a hijab. it’s “the result of domestic violence, a problem that cuts across Canadian society and is blind to color or creed.” Nothing to see here, move along..
#36 David, someone should have a word with you.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 12 12 at 08:45 PM • permalink
I read, from a link at Bolta’s, a letter from Michael Mansell, a long-term aboriginal spokesperson, activist and talking head for Tasmanian aborigines. I replied:
I am gobsmacked at the letter from Mansell.
It’s no more wrong for the court to consider the attitude of the victim’s Aboriginal community to which she will eventually return than it is for Anna Bligh to insist her white community attitudes must prevail. Imposing white rule over Aboriginal society creates the problem. Isn’t it time to find real solutions?
I guess, Mr Mansell, that if we fix the terrible problem of physical and mental abuse of children and others in dysfunctional aboriginal communities you might be out of a job. For it appears that you have no idea that just because it’s a “Cultural” or “local cultural” norm, does not, by any stretch of the imagination, make it right or proper. I cannot believe that you would defend the dysfunctionality of the community, and complain about any intervention to stop this from happening.
Mr Mansell, you disgust me.Link to the letter. It’s the last one. and, here’s a piccy of Michael Mansell.
#66 Yes, this happened just a few hundred miles from me. Pretty close.
And I still haven’t heard a peep from the feminists.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 12 12 at 08:51 PM • permalink
#74 Kae, Is this “person” seriously suggesting that if ol’ whitey stopped trying to stop abos raping their children, then the rapes would stop?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 12 12 at 08:55 PM • permalink
#71 Cuckoo, thanks for pointing that out.
Well, clearly someone of the religion of peace does not murder, they merely express allah’s will, to which they have submitted.
Only infidels can commit murder.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 12 12 at 08:58 PM • permalink
Hello Media Watch; hello Canadian Human Rights Council. How’ya doin’? Still going after the wrong targets?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 12 12 at 09:00 PM • permalink
- #66.
“Devout” means “unthinking fucking moron”, for any religion.Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2007 12 12 at 09:00 PM • permalink
- I’m not sure what the hell he’s saying. But it appears that he wants the status to remain quo.
I do think he’s saying that whitey shouldn’t moralise to aboriginal communities and try to impose their values and morals on the communities because, you know, it’s cultural and it’s just something that happens.
The court should take into consideration that it’s the norm for up there and therefore really not a crime or bad or whatever.
Mansell has always been an advocate and activist for Aboriginals in Tassie. He’s received way too much attention for his attitudes which have, I think, severely damaged any aboriginal cause he has become involved in. He’s part of the “industry”.I suppose he IS saying that if whitey walks away and lets them go all this shit will stop.Yeah, they’ll all die out from venereal diseases, booze, petrol sniffing, bashings. Makes perfect sense. But I don’t think he’s thought that one through, he’ll still be out of a job.
#74 Thats the problem we are happy to give everyone equal rights to the point that we change the rules for different groups of people. Effectively all this seems to end up doing is causing greater division in the community whether that be religious, race or sex.
I also have never come accross any aboriginal dreamtime teaching which would imply that what this girl has been subjected to is ok and I certainly wouldnt think that the “community attitude” would be such (god help us if it is). The government, the girls family and if no one else the people of Australia owe it to this little girl and all little girls and boys like her (black, white, yellow and any other colour) to ensure that the legal system doesn’t let this sort of thing happen ever again.
If we follow what Mansell says in the para I have quoted, I suppose it’s OK for a murder to be let off with a caution when what he’s done is mentioned in his holy book as OK and it’s a, y’know, cultural community thing.
Those Pakistani rapists would have got off because they said it was OK to rape at home.
Must stop now. Too cranky!
It would be great if there were more people like Noel Pearson willing to stand up and support actions that would really make a positive difference, rather than those like the Australian $$$$$$$$$$$$$$orryLabor Party.
Unfortunately we all know that too many people make too much money off the Aboriginal Industry.
Krudd wants to appologise…. for what?
Granted they were here and white settlers came and settled here…. this was the world at the time, exploring the earth and settling new places.
In my lifetime (the only part of this that I can personally be sorry for) the only things I can see I have done to them is;
Paying my taxes which go towards providing them with fresh drinking water, shelter, clothing and food.
Payig my taxes whcih go towards providing them with a political voice (should they chose to use it)I’m sure my taxes pay for a lot more but im too cranky to think about it.
I’m not sorry that Europeans settled here infact I feel very lucky to live in this country and that would not have been possible if the settlement had not occured.
I’m not sorry that our legal system is forced on them (as it is on all of us lucky enough to be in this country) as I believe that all people should be accountable for their actions and be judged accordingly.
Infact the only thing that I am really sorry for is the fact that no matter the support or services or material things that we provide people along with protection from invasion and the liberties extended to all citzens, there are still many who do not make use of such services.
I am sorry that these people have been given so much but instead of considering themselves lucky to live in this wonderful country and taking advantage of the benefits citizenship provides us they chose to sit on their backsides blaming everyone else for their plight.
Its not about appologising to the Aboriginals for the settlement of our country or the atrocities that were committed (as was the world at the time) I was not responsible for that nor was any Australian alive today. We shouldn’t be appologising we should be uniting under one flag with one voice and celebrating our freedom not condemning ourselves for things that were done before our time.
Then you get idiots like this who try to use the “attitude of the victim’s Aboriginal community” as an excuse for their behaviour. This community was the same community which allowed this atrocity to happen the same community that these men and boys came from. How then can you take their attitudes into account when it is exactly their attitude in this case which has enabled a little girl to be gang raped by 9 males. Who the hell does he think he is
Its not about appologising to the Aboriginals for the settlement of our country or the atrocities that were committed (as was the world at the time) I was not responsible for that nor was any Australian alive today. We shouldn’t be appologising we should be uniting under one flag with one voice and celebrating our freedom not condemning ourselves for things that were done before our time.
Particularly well said. A fine rant, Killaette.
Another example of Rudd getting it wrong. You’re supposed to make unannounced stops in IRAQ, not Israel… and I hope you brought your own Turkey, Tim.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 12 12 at 10:17 PM • permalink
- #100
The turkey followed him later in another jet…Here he is being interviewed by ABC for The World Today.
Hi, I’m 10 years old. I have an intellectual disability caused by foetal alcohol syndrome due to an alcoholic mother. When I was 7, 5 local boys gang raped me. Then whitey stole me and placed me with foster parents. These foster parents were deemed to be highly inappropriate due to their whiteness, so I was place back under the care of my loving family. When I turned 10 I was once again gang raped in the cultural tradition of the local boys and contracted syphillis and gonorrhea. Apparently I consented to this, but with all the celebratory drinks it’s hard to remember. I sure have packed in a lot to my young life. Anyhoo, what I really want is for you to say “sorry” for coming here 200 years ago an infringing upon our beautiful culture.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 12 at 10:26 PM • permalink
#103 – I knew all about the drug and alcohol abuse, the violence and the general fuckedupness of Aboriginal communities, but this sexual abuse is the sickest shit I’ve ever heard. To be gang raped twice by the age of 10 – That is pure evil.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 12 at 10:57 PM • permalink
#106 – Don’t get me started on those bloody Romans, or the Normans. Reparations, bitch!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 12 at 11:02 PM • permalink
#106 – Furthermore, I think the moment your refugee camp has concrete structures and an historical society, it might be time to get over it and get on with it.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 12 at 11:05 PM • permalink
- Posted by carpefraise on 2007 12 12 at 11:09 PM • permalink
- Minions, if I could just get you all back on topic for awhile:
I think you might be a bit premature in thinking that Tim B is OK. One post in three days does nothing to assure me of his safety and well-being.
Many of the comments around here lately have ignored security procedures.
I have been trying to remember some of the more recent slips of the tongue pen fingers.
Ah yes, here is the one I have been looking for.
I will leave it to you all to work out which two “sources” mentioned in that link are giving me the most concern.
Wronwright, perhaps we need to tighten up the minion-strings a bit?
An announcement:
sprog 1 – doing fine. Still on track for golfing model career (ie she’s 8 months old and looks cuter than ever).
sprog 2 – yes, there is 1 on the way! – just had the first ultrasound this morning and “it” looks fine – due date 25 June, 2008. A little early in our planning (ahem, say no more), but we feel blessed already.
Back to normal programming:
Tim, seeing Israel before it gets nuked – smart move. ps not wishful thinking, just the opposite – the way nuke material is NOT safe guarded these days, I’m sorry to say, it seems inevitable.
#129 why is that an awful thing to say? He is simply pointing out that due to the state of that part of the world and the fact that nuclear material seems to be freely availible, that it is only a matter of time before something like that happens.
Doesnt seem like an awful thing to say to me simply a statement of the potenial
- #132 Dave S.
I agree.
During the Cold War the risks of annihilation were grave, but I always believed in my heart that the West would win in the end.
I’m not so confident about victory these days when we have such strong home forces working from within for the enemy.
As Spain, France and others hsve discovered, changes of governments do not always lead to victory and peace.
Thanks for the nice wishes. Yeah I did think twice of saying the nuke thing, and nearly didn’t, but imagine living there and knowing that a suicide bomber, a missile or the worst of all, some dirty bomb, are all not just fanciful thoughts, but realistic possibilities? I have nothing but admiration for those living with that burden, on top of normal life burdens. And yeah, I hope it never comes to pass, anywhere for that matter!
I just read one of those funny things you stick on your wall and it said
“If you love someone set them free and if it comes back it will always be yours. If it dosent come back it was never yours to begin with but if it just sits on your couch, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your phone, takes your money and doesnt seem realise that you ever released, you either married it or gave birth to it”
I thought it was funny as and probably how my parents felt in my teens.
Why wasn’t I informed that Timblair.net had merged with Cosmo?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 13 at 01:36 AM • permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AMkMz1ta-A&feature=related
I’m sure he could type a few words on my toes.
back to the more topical issues in todays society.
1. How to ensure your hair doesnt frizz with the increasing humitdity due to global warming
2. How to trap win the best man in the survival of the fittest.
3. Which of those shoes would construct the best fall out shelter and would you willing to make the sacrifice
- #74 Kae: Looks like I’m a bit late getting over to your link — can’t find your letter there.
I am amazed at how many reporters assume that the judge in the Aurukun case was a man.
It seems our Seppo friends are better informed than we are:Crown prosecutor Steve Carter should be dismissed and the judge, Sarah Bradley, removed from the bench. Judges are supposed to overrule ignorant and biased prosecutors.
Laura E. Berk
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emerita,
Illinois State UniversityThe case is receiving world-wide coverage. Not a good look for Oz.
Pearson for governer general!!
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 12 13 at 01:55 AM • permalink
I once thought that Pearson should enter politics, but now I think he should stay right where he is.
No good as GG where he should keep his mouth shut.
I find these days that I am more impressed by how he says what he says. It is always concise and to the point, in stark contrast to the unmitigated waffle and spinspeak that passes for public debate these days.
I had reason to walk past St Peter’s College at Indooroopilly last evening, where he went to school and as I understand it, a few of his countrymen and women go now. Hopefully in a generation or so we will look at that place and be able to say, “that’s where it started, with the education of Noel Pearson”
A breakthrough in herbal Science has created a pill that has been designed specifically for penis enlargement.
The tests that took place over a 6 month period showed that out of the 5,000 Males from around the world who participated, the average gain after 5 months of taking ManSter pills was 3.02 Inches!Amazing, PERMANENT RESULTS that will last.
Now, before I buy this product, is it despatched* with a male?
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(*nearly said does it come with a mail, knew I’d get a ribbing about that, so changed it….)
#135 RebeccaH Why have one when you can have two, I always say.
Hmm, this kind of thinking is particularly relevant to truffles.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 12 13 at 02:26 AM • permalink
#201 – J Edgar Hoover once said something very similar.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 13 at 03:03 AM • permalink
OK, since we’ve gone COMPLETELY off-topic, I offer this for your entertainment pleasure. He’s Vince Mira, he’s 15 years old, from the Seattle suburb of Federal Way, and was discovered busking down at Pike Place Market.
I sure hope to hear from this kid in the future.
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 12 13 at 03:34 AM • permalink
Oh yeah, one last one from the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
This kid is amazing.
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 12 13 at 03:54 AM • permalink
Oh, and by the way. guys, we’ve got a big problem… Some fool just blew the cover on that Pinstripe Activated Clip-On operation we conducted back in 1928, and now the whole plan is in jeopardy! Wronwright, head back there and see if you can find some way to get people to stick the blame for the whole mess on the Coolidge administration.
I just heard an absolute corker on the radio this evening. The Canberra Times is in trouble for printing a photo of Maxine McKew at the declaration of the poll for Bennelong. She is sitting next to John Howard and is wearing a short skirt and no knickers. Looks like a gratuitous beaver shot on the front page.
There’s a pdf file of the front page on the Canberra Times website (WARNING it is around 2MB to download) which has the offending photo, although it’s not very clear thank God!
I was chatting to my neighbour when we heard it and I said to him “I don’t know what all the fuss is about, it’s just another Labor ****.” (boom, boom)
#208 – When I heard that the Canberra Times had published a photo exposing Maxine’s c***, I couldn’t believe there was such a fuss made about a pic of Bob Hogg.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 13 at 04:34 AM • permalink
You know and I know that a kid that good-looking is gonna have a few years of “lady trouble”, including cold hearted women.
“lady trouble”, not a problem I’m familiar with. Except one time in Thailand, once it was established that I had a pocketful full of baht.
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 12 13 at 04:40 AM • permalink
#212 Well there was that too. But that’s pretty much automatic for any farang visiting Thailand, isn’t it?
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 12 13 at 04:52 AM • permalink
#208 – All I got was a download of blank space. How big is it, actually?
But damn, I thought I’d be the only one here with a story about a lucky pussy.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 12 13 at 05:31 AM • permalink
To go along with the lucky pussy, here’s the sorry tale of a stupid twat.
Found this at Major Geeks on the Way Off Topic page. And as they say, it’s worth seeing for the mugshot alone.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 12 13 at 05:36 AM • permalink
- Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 12 13 at 05:58 AM • permalink
- message to paco : thanks! TimB returned before I finished the cuneiform version
message to TimB : don’t forget to bring a souvenir back from your travels for your loyal commenteers. Will a block from the Temple Mount fit in your carry on?P.S. try not to get kidnapped.Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 12 13 at 06:35 AM • permalink
#143 1.618, clearly, this seems like the right to to offer you a christmas package. I’ll even put a red ribbon on it.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 12 13 at 06:38 AM • permalink
- okay, I must have been discombobulated. That was supposed to be:
#143 1.618, clearly, this seems like the right time to offer you a christmas package. I’ll even put a red ribbon on it.Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 12 13 at 06:41 AM • permalink
#161 a little thing like toenails, they completely suck at it!
while I can’t speak for all guys, I really, really don’t understand the point of painting toenails. They are rarely seen, rarely noticed (at least by men – are you trying to impress other women?), and feet inhabit the scale of beauty from not very attractive to ugly. I swear I have never said “look at her painted toenails! That is so hot that I must have her. Of course, if they were painted a non-hussy shade of red then I would buy her a ring and propose.”
If 1.618 wanted me to paint tiny christmas trees on them… then maybe but a solid color seems pointless.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 12 13 at 06:47 AM • permalink
I was going to tell Tim about a really good seafood restaurant just north of Tel Aviv.
But I lost my apetite for it.
I read “Children are targets of Nigerian witch hunt”.
The only way to deal with this is through publicity. Get the various evangelical groups to condemn it so thoroughly that the people guilty of it get totally discredited.
I’ve dealt with similar situations in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, but nothing like this, not so young. Please shine the light of publicity on it. Blog it. Put it in the papers. Please.
Aside from being able to serve as your own night-light, I’m rather skeptical about the utility of this process.
#227 Unlike paco I ask why not make everything glow in the dark?
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 12 13 at 09:37 AM • permalink
- The clearest benefit for the South Koreans is the propaganda value.
step 1 : clone a kajillion glow-in-the-dark cats
step 2 : release the aforementioned cats into North Korea and give their brothers to the north the light that the DPRK cannot provide.
step 3 : the common man of DPRK says “Hello kitty!” and takes a keen interest in the new source of food light
step 4 : DPRK helpless against the infiltration of capitalist running dogs catsPosted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 12 13 at 09:43 AM • permalink
I just read this article on the ABC (Australia’s version) web site:
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called for immediate political action to contain the deep crisis in the West Bank and Gaza.
The statement is an unusual departure from its normally non-political stance.
The ICRC says the measures imposed by Israel have denied the Palestinian population the right to live a normal and dignified life.
From it’s normally non-political stance? The ICRC?
Posted by wronwright on 2007 12 13 at 10:07 AM • permalink
#215 I have some mates in the RAN, I’ve heard the term Beanie before over a few beers. Apparently it is a right of passage in some circles………
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2007 12 13 at 10:07 AM • permalink
#66 Yes, this happened just a few hundred miles from me. Pretty close.
Me, I’m 4.0 km from the scene (http://tinyurl.com/yo2pqv).
I’m considered the local fascist-troglodyte (as any Tim Blair reader would be, I suspect), so I’m hardly surprised by this. By Torontonians are alternately stunned or bewildered. The Toronto Star has already whitewashed it by pointing out the racism of *not* wearing a hijab, but I’m hearing a lot more whisper campaigns going on.
This reminds me of South Africa a bit. There, unpopular truths were spoken in whispers so as to not be overheard. You didn’t want to attract the attention of the SADF. Here, it’s the Human Rights Commission (currently going after Mark Steyn).
People are starting to take notice. The problem is that by making the topic off limits and beyond discussion means it’s being discussed underground. That rarely ends well.
Posted by William de Haan on 2007 12 13 at 10:33 AM • permalink
#232. Michelle Makin is all over this murder…How the media is whitewashing honour killings, with quotes from the Canadian Islamic Council, the same lunatics attempting to silence Mark Steyn.
- #208 Craigo: It looks like the front page fanny was all in our filthy minds. Editor defends revealing McKew photo.
I wonder if they have had any complaints from the Presbyterians.
- #230 – wronwright – the ICRC is about as non-political as Amnesty!
The ABC’s reportage from Pallyland via Hardyakker and Brown defaults to lamenting the hardship suffered by the Pallys while ignoring the causes.
The ICRC does the same, whining about the restrictions and ignoring the causes: incessant attacks via rocket and bomb by the Pallys on Israel over many years.
#240 Skeeter, to paraphrase Mandy Rice-Davies: “well he would say that, wouldn’t he?”
The Editor says its just her thigh – either Maxine has such fat thighs there’s a big fold when she sits down, or it’s something else. I think the most amusing thing about this is that the Canberra Times couldn’t resist one last gloating attempt to embarrass John Howard and it has backfired on them spectacularly and embarrassed Maxine.
- The warmenist alarmists are banging on again thismorning about losing the Barrier Reef.
“Most coral reefs will not cope with the rising temperatures in the Earth’s atmosphere,” Professor Hoegh-Guldberg said. “If you look at the current rate of emissions rising in the atmosphere they’re rising at such a rate now that we’re at the upper end of the scenario.Now, on the radio he said, paraphrased, that the last time the reef died, something like 30 odd million years ago, it took 5 million years for it to come back.Der. Must have been the industrialised dinos, er, um….
Anyone else catch Gore’s address in Bali?
paraphrase:
Look what happens when the government changes in Australia. blah blah blah.
It’s not political, it’s a matter of saving the world.
And the ice is melting, the world will end, the reef will die, it’s getting warmer… all the time on the news.
I suppose if they say it often enough it will become true?
- #231
Only in some circles.
I shall always treasure the memories of one run ashore where one mate left the bar early, with a spring in his step, only to return shortly afterwards, ashen faced.
Intensive beer therapy was required before the full horror could be revealed and the healing process could begin.
- #243 Kae. I have seen a few reports lately indicating that the the sea temperatures in the GBR are actually getting colder at the moment. Because bleaching can occur when the water is too cold, as well as too hot, the next bleaching cycle may be caused by coldening, not warmening.
Had trouble finding those JCU reports, but found this Cold water causes Great Barrier Reef coral damage.
It’s from Their ABC, so it must be true.
Wha, wha, what? An unannounced mission to Israel? Why wasn’t I told? Who booked your travel arrangements? Who did your trip tik?
Well, fine. But for your sake, I hope you’re not relying on a map from Lowenstein to navigate around the country. You’ll end up in Pally World in short order.