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Doublethink drops in on Cindy Sheehan’s Melbourne Motherfest, and discovers empty seats galore:
Further pictures and excellent reporting here, here, and here. You learn some fascinating things at these Cindypalooza shows. For example:
* Sheehan has “spent a lot of money, sacrificed so much, and have troubled far and wide to do so.”
* John Lennon’s Imagine was banned in the US after 9/11.
* Sheehan believes that John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr were “assassinated by the war machine in my country, because they were talking about peace.”
This weekend will witness the majesty of Camp Sydney:
On Sunday, I’m gonna go to John Howard’s residence in Sydney, we’re gonna have a demonstration there. We’re gonna ask to meet with him …
Stand by for the coffee table book: Places I Have Been Outside Of, Looking Stupid.
UPDATE. Cathy Seipp:
The most idiotic statement in Sheehan’s new book, Dear President Bush, comes not from Sheehan herself but from Howard Zinn, who writes in the introduction: “A box-cutter can bring down a tower. A poem can build up a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution.”
A box-cutter can bring down a tower. By now, I suppose, we should be used to the hard Left’s extending underdog status to the worst of mass murderers; still, the sheer gall of beginning a series of David-and-Goliath metaphors with that one is breathtaking.
- JFK assassinated for talking peace? Was that peace with the Soviet Union or peace with North Vietnam? Pig vomit has more redeeming qualities than Cindy Al Qaeda Sheehan. Her poor, poor son. He’s lucky he’s gone, he would have died of shame had he seen his mom now. I never knew a person could shove their head quite that far up their own ass.Posted by Texas Bob on 2006 05 26 at 06:29 AM • permalink
This weekend will witness the majesty of Camp Sydney:
On Sunday, I’m gonna go to John Howard’s residence in Sydney, we’re gonna have a demonstration there. We’re gonna ask to meet with him …Oh, please! Please! Pleeeeease do this! Best laugh of the weekend coming up!
Couldn’t meet Bush (the second time) so now she’s going for the “Sheriff’s Deputy”. Since she hadn’t even heard of him a week ago, do you think the Holy Mother will recognise the PM?
Banning Imagine’s a great idea, but unfortunately these pesky democracies make sure we’ve got to put up with it. :^(
What’s the bet Mother Sheehan’s unholy unwashed gathering outside Kiribilli House gets WAYYYYY too much media coverage compared to its importance?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 05 26 at 06:32 AM • permalink
- Is there no end to the lies these people are willing to tell? ‘Imagine’ banned in America? How I hope someone calls him on that statement.
” .. we’re gonna have a demonstration there.”
They can sing ‘Imagine’ while they wait for JH to get around to seeing them. The dirge hasnt been banned in Australia yet, has it?
- #4 No, JH is in Dili at the moment, entenching tool in hand, digging his command HQ and overseeing the brutal Oz imperialist and fascist invasion of East Timor at the behest of George Dubya. Actually, it would be nice if the media asked these tossers for their views on what’s happening in East Timor. Could well get some strange and convoluted responses.
They need to tie Johns’ (or is it Johns’s, English was never my strongpoint) hands behind his back. It would render him speechless.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 05 26 at 06:51 AM • permalink
- entenching = entrenching. Time to watch the footyPosted by Whale Spinor on 2006 05 26 at 06:53 AM • permalink
- I see by the psuedo-psyco-post-deconstructivist-wankarama on walls of that venue that it’s held at RMIT’s Storey Hall.
A perfect evening, really.Posted by pick-your-pun on 2006 05 26 at 06:57 AM • permalink
- An interesting aspect of this is that we would appear to be the final stages of Cindy’s credibility and media value.
She is now locked inside the professional progressive circuit and, like the Socialist Workers Party banners at any London demonstration, she has become a predictable, and utterly irrelevant part of the political landscape.
In one way that’s sad: whether you agree with her or not, she has a legitimate – and tragically personal – view of the conflict in Iraq.
However, instead of trying to leverage her beliefs in a credible manner, she has chosen the moonbat option and has simply marginalized herself in amongst the usual suspects.
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2006 05 26 at 07:09 AM • permalink
- Sorry for the typos in my last – I’m utterly hamfisted at the keyboard this morning!Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2006 05 26 at 07:12 AM • permalink
- There is a time-honoured, traditional way of analysis among wet left spongiforms:
Look at the symptoms and cry out for treatment of them.
1.Let the boat people come, regardless of the real reasons they come, regardless of our right to control immigration.
2. Stop the rape and killing in countries X, Y and Z, but do not use force or coercion to do so.
3. Give money to the poor – forever – rather than treat the causes of impoverishment. That might also require force or IMF coercion.
4. Oppose war, whatever the consequences. We are peaceniks and we will go gladly to the gulags or killing fields ourselves rather than fight.
5. Do not commit peacekeeping troops without expressing tremulous, auntie-like misgivings that someone might get hurt, and say, like Kim, that it is with heavy heart that we launch such an endeavour.
6. Don’t fight against terrorism if civil liberties might be reduced. Telegraph to them that we lack resolve.
JOIN THE NOBLE WIMP MOVEMENT TODAY.
TREAT THE SYMPTOMS, NOT THE DISEASES.
- Is the bloke second from the right in the front row asleep or practicing his ‘compassionate head-tilt’?Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2006 05 26 at 07:44 AM • permalink
- We have a big fireworks show near us in Red Bank, NJ, and on July 4th, 2002 during the fireworks one of the songs they played was <Imagine</i>. People were pissed that they would play that piece of crap that night.Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 05 26 at 07:46 AM • permalink
- yep, retard with html code, that would be me.Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 05 26 at 07:47 AM • permalink
- On the bright side, troll activity seems to have waned. They all must be out at Cindys place, speaking truth to power.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 05 26 at 08:14 AM • permalink
- Mr Bingley:
More importantly, did the Red Bank PD come tearing out of their HQ at the municipal complex on Monmouth Street to arrest all those either playing or singing that song?
After all, it is banned, isn’t it?
Oh yeah, I forgot; it’s not banned, it’s banal.
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2006 05 26 at 08:18 AM • permalink
- Aaaargh!, I spoke too soon, that rat-bastard Addamo’s shown up on the Loewenstein thread.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 05 26 at 08:18 AM • permalink
- The closest thing to a “banned” song in this country is Charlie Daniels’ “This Ain’t No Rag It’s a Flag.” Which is a damn shame. I would rather undergo dental surgery than ever hear “Imagine” again—or anything else Lennon committed as a solo act.
I don’t even know where to begin picking Sheehan’s statements apart. Every batter wants a fat one out over the plate, but it’s like getting 50 of them thrown at me at once. I wonder if that nuthouse in “Amadeus” is still around?
- I urge people to look at the 3rd photo link. The pill with his “come to me eyes” and “Lawrence we love you long time” headdress is the best laugh Ive had for ages. Hes near the bottom of the page.
ABC will cover it, if they can send a news crew 2,500 km to cover a demonstration by 15 hippies at Port Hedland then this should push East Timor to second news item…
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 26 at 09:14 AM • permalink
- Sadly, no, JJM. I wish they had.Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 05 26 at 09:15 AM • permalink
- Such a young and vigorous looking audience, too…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 26 at 09:20 AM • permalink
- #15 anagallis:
No, despite the fact that Cindy Sheehan is a complete pratt who should be dragged out and shot like my neighbour’s fucking annoying cat, she hasn’t been able to sacrifice her son’s dignity. A man who gives his life for the benefit of others is beyond the besmirchment of assclowns like your Cindy.
Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 05 26 at 09:38 AM • permalink
- This woman has gone from grieving mother to media whore to marginalized moonbat. I do not care to see what she does or says when no one wants to listen to her anymore. And it’s almost to that point, even with the leftoids.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 26 at 09:39 AM • permalink
- One reason the anti-war movement hasn’t been able to get any traction is that the moonbats insist on occupying center stage.
For example, this was Shehan shortly after Katrina:
George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his self from power.
And in April of last year:
“I’m going all over the country telling moms: ‘This country is not worth dying for.’ If we’re attacked, we would all go out. We’d all take whatever we had. I’d take my rolling pin and I’d beat the attackers over the head with it… We might not even have been attacked by Osama bin Laden if 9/11 was their Pearl Harbor to get their neo-con agenda through . . .
If Karl Rove wanted to organize an ineffective opposition, it would look something like the Cindy Sheehan-Michael Moore-International A.N.S.W.E.R. left.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 05 26 at 09:54 AM • permalink
- trainer – She’s VERY welcome to stay here in Oz….
…and over-stay her Visa. Maybe she’ll claim asylum?
We have lots of nice camps on great places like Naru and Christmas Island for “asylum seekers”. Razor wire, guards, the whole bit. Heh. Lots of good ditches she can wallow in too.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 05 26 at 10:00 AM • permalink
- Audience numbers low too for ABC’s Australian Story this week when they present a typical Australian family set up -a drag queen with six children by five different mothers…Deja vu for the reluctant audience as he dons a frothy pink tutu and a curly blond wig..why only a coupla weeks previous we were treated on Aunty’s PET show with Johnny Young to a filthy rich gay guy with a penchant for dressing his pooches in pink tutus..no wonder the dogs were sick..
Tonite we have that dog of a show Chaser-sworn foes of Looney but Anti Howard to the core.Our paypackets were pillaged again to vilify John Howard about six times over in different skits…culminating for me with the Hillsong Church skit..ain’t it enough that ugly sister Gerry Doogue is using Compass to attack opus dei and the catholic church via the da vinci code book and film -again with our hard earned cash? She’s filthey rich in her own right -play dirty with your own money Gerry…
- 20 Mark
I would rather undergo dental surgery than ever hear “Imagine” again—or anything else Lennon committed as a solo act.
“Cold Turkey” was kind of hard to dance to, too.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 26 at 10:11 AM • permalink
- We’re going to be seeing a lot of schadenfreude and gloating regarding the upcoming Haditha investigation from the Adammos and Sheehans. I urge discipline, and I’ll try to practice some myself.Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 05 26 at 10:17 AM • permalink
- Imagine has actually become a perennial favourite for the Australia Day Skyshow (for those o/s: crowds, fireworks, music, pretentious commentary and alcohol.) It comes on near the end; finishes just about the same time the fights start… funny about that…Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 05 26 at 10:17 AM • permalink
- RE #33, all too true, chinesearithmetic. Thanks for the heads up—I hadn’t thought that far ahead. Yeah, the anti-war idiots will hype that one up, for sure.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 26 at 10:24 AM • permalink
- Look at the bright side of Mother Sheehan being in Australia. It’s giving Latham a little paparazzi privacy for a change…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 26 at 10:36 AM • permalink
- KEEP her. I live in Oakland, a mere STONE’S THROW from BerkeleyPosted by beautifulatrocities on 2006 05 26 at 11:29 AM • permalink
- 39. Funny you should mention Eleanor Rigby. A colleague at work is getting married in Greece, and we’re invited to the conference room to watch the live cast. How do you pick up digital rice? And if we don’t forever hold our peace, do we double click our objection?Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 05 26 at 12:04 PM • permalink
#28 If Karl Rove wanted to organize an ineffective opposition, it would look something like the Cindy Sheehan-Michael Moore-International A.N.S.W.E.R. left.—posted by Bruce Rheinstein
If he wanted to? Bruce, this baby’s been a work in progress for 10 years. As long as the rightwing continues to secretly support looney tunes like Cindy, the Chimpler is untouchable.
And to the regulars who come here, lay off Cindy! We don’t want her to go back on one of her lying-down-on-Casey’s-grave-theatrical-depressions again. Karl about sprung a sprocket on that. We sent paco and Stoop Davy Dave with placards exclaiming their heartful admiration on what she’s doing for America. And let me tell you, it was one difficult thing to motivate those two enough to do that. Not even threats of washing and wax details and spanking sessions by Andrea were enough. It took Karl’s cold … hard … stare … to make them do it. (shudders)
Support her! Send her an email, a letter, telling her that she’s made a difference, a big difference in this war against war. Feel free to use embarrassing comparisons, like Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, or Susan Sarandon. Encourage her to continue.
Keeping preaching Cindy! Preach the good word.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 26 at 12:17 PM • permalink
- All joking aside, St. Mother has officially taken her place in my pantheon of heartless assholes.
- We sent paco and Stoop Davy Dave with placards exclaiming their heartful admiration on what she’s doing for America. And let me tell you, it was one difficult thing to motivate those two enough to do that.
“Motivate”?!? You call sending me a drugged six-pack of my favorite soda pop (Cheerwine), putting my unconscious form in the trunk of a Cadillac, driving me to the protest, and propping me up with a sign epoxied to my hand “motivation”? Hey, and Stoop Davy asks when does he get his family back?
- 44. You have to add me to your list. A Lyndon LaRouche disciple set up a table on a street near my deli, with a very unflattering picture of President Bush and creepy slogans. The moonbat—think MIchael Douglas in Falling Down—was engaged in earnest dialogue. I had just bought a sandwich, and I looked in the bag…yes! Unwrapping the tin foil, I suggested, “You can make a nifty hat out of this.” I always wanted to go up to a guy in a Che T-shirt and say, “I’m shaking, I’m shaking,” but for now this will do.Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 05 26 at 12:52 PM • permalink
- “A box-cutter can bring down a tower. A poem can build up a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution.”
The first sentence, there, is an unspeakably vile thing to say, and the whole rigamarole indicates a very confused context. I suppose I could be charitable and just say that Zinn has a tin ear.
On the other hand, the hell with it; smoke him, boys.
- “A box-cutter can bring down a tower.”
Wait, I thought the official moonbat position was that ChimpyMcBushHitler placed bombs in the WTC towers in order justify our aggression against these poor innocent brown people. Is Cindy, in effect, contradicting that and agreeing with the “offical” story that the flights were hijacked and crashed? Will the next Loose Change-type documentary be a expose of St. Cindy to punish her for deviating from the party line?
God, if we could only get all these idiots at each other’s throats full-time. It would be more entertaining and free up the adults who need to do the real work necessary here.
- I think you are mistaken, Tim. From this picture it appears that there are upwards of 250,000 people in this room attending Cindy Sheehan’s latest whatever it is that she does. If you don’t believe me, just check the Australian papers tomorrow for the attendance estimates.Posted by charles austin on 2006 05 26 at 01:12 PM • permalink
- THank you, Cathy Seipp.Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 05 26 at 01:14 PM • permalink
- about 200 people in total. Yip! Yip! Yahoo!
How many of that 200 were journos? Had to be at least 50 or so.
No indigenous person to give welcome! What! These bozos couldn’t find one victimization pimp to mutter a few words. Imagine that. Not much of an “A” list event. I’d ask for my money back, or raise a Rukus, at the very least. Maybe the Tides are shifting.
A box-cutter can bring down a tower.
Dear Mr. Zinn:
Fuck you.
Sincerely,
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 26 at 02:13 PM • permalink
- Getting pedantic, I don’t think a box-cutter can bring down a tower, although a large plane loaded with fuel and a lot of innocent people certainly can. The terrorists used box cutters to acheive their aim, but the box cutters no more brought down the towers than did the oxygen the terrorists were breathing that made it possible for them to wield the box cutters to take over the planes that brought down the towers.
BUt, even if I were to pay attention to the man behind the curtain and grant the veracity of this statement by the Great and Powerful Zinn, odds are good that while it worked on 9/11, it wouldn’t work today.
Posted by charles austin on 2006 05 26 at 02:25 PM • permalink
- #57, thanks, paco, I think I’m going to have to add another room too. BTW, I forgot to add that I got that link via Instapundit, which is the blog I go to after I’ve been to this one.
- So Cindy has “spent a lot of money”? You mean she spent the whole $250,000 DOD life insurance policy from her dead son? That doesn’t seem plausible, seeing as how she couldn’t even afford to get him a tombstone.snopes article
- So Cindy has “spent a lot of money”? You mean she spent the whole $250,000 DOD life insurance policy from her dead son? That doesn’t seem plausible, seeing as how she couldn’t even afford to get him a tombstone.snopes article
- You know, I honestly do think that the lefties believe that box cutters brought down the WTC. After all, look at what we have done with airport security after 9/11. Any sharp object is confiscated so that the tool used by the 9/11 hijackers can’t be employed again.
The chattering classes don’t use tools much, whether it is a wrench or axe or rifle so they think that they are controlling the situation if they control the use of the tool. But what they don’t understand is that the enemy is able to adapt his tactics in response to our countermeasures. We all like to think that it will be impossible for the bad guys to ever hijack another plane to use as a weapon like they did on 9/11, but don’t bet on it.
For instance-they used 19 hijackers to cause roughly 3000 deaths on that day. I can imagine them using 19 other hijackers on one plane this time so as to control any passenger revolt. They wouldn’t need a blade-you could garote the flight crew with your shoestring and you wouldn’t have to fly long. Just find a takeoff that coincides with an indoor sporting event, take over the plane within the first few minutes. Send the muscle guys back to fight with the passengers and have the pilot turn the plane around and aim for the packed arena.
The point I guess I am trying to make is that we can’t know what the enemy is going to do and the emphasis on what weapons or tactics he has used previously is pretty foolish. When more of us used tools on a more regular basis we understood that they were for dealing with problems we encountered in the environment, but today many who never lay a hand on them fail to understand this and think that something is being done about the problem by getting rid of the scary knives/guns/shoestrings. We have effectively confused the nature of the problem.
< /semi-coherent rant >
- Will Zinn include this tower zinger in the next People’s HIstory of the United States?Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 05 26 at 03:14 PM • permalink
“On Sunday, I’m gonna go to John Howard’s residence in Sydney, we’re gonna have a demonstration there…”
“…Not only are we going to Sydney, we’re going to Melbourne and Adelaide and Perth and Canberra and Darwin, and we’re going to Fremantle and Brisbane and Kalgoorlie! And we’re going to Woolamagoomerong and Digeridoolonagong and Kookaburrastan and then probably hook back to Sydney to get some pie! I love Sydney Pie! And then we’re going to Mars and Jupiter and Betelgeuse! Whee! And then we’re going to Zaxxon IV to take back the Imperial Court of the Grand Moxie of Fruvous! Yeaaaaagggggh!!!”
Second question, if there are, would they in fact eat Cindy Sheehan?
El Cid, even cannibals have their standards.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 26 at 05:12 PM • permalink
- I don’t know about a tower, but boxcutters can do lots of interesting things to a stupid “historian” like Howard Zinn.
I now look forward to the ever-vigilant mhar4 to announce that henceforth Howard Zinn is not to be considered to be a historian, and to demand that I “prove” my statement with a list of “real” stupid historians. Oh wait, he can’t—I banned him, and I just banned his new sign-up attempt as mhar5. Zing! (You’ll have to go here to see what I’m talking about.)
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 05 26 at 05:56 PM • permalink
- Hmmmm. It looks like Andrea is distracted. Now’s my chance to pilfer “lil fren” and place it on my wall between my Zulu spear and the Norman shield. Then we’ll send who spanks whom around Tim’s blog.Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 26 at 06:10 PM • permalink
- Not so very vigilant. He missed it when I mentioned Zinn the first go ‘round.
- The Butterfly Effect, related to the study of weather phenomena. Now the Box Cutter Effect can be related to the chaos theory. The chaos theory that I am implying is the one that emanates from the crazed minds of Muslim fanatics. Check this out http://www.glumbert.com/media/rave.html
- The talk fest in Melbourne was held at RMIT University’s Storey Hall – even in a hotbed of radicalism – a uni – they couldn’t even get a good turnout.
Mind you when I went to RMIT (business faculty) the lecturers/tutorers would tell us there was a strike on such and such a day, but they were going to be putting on the class regardless as we had too much to cram into 12 weeks already without losing valuable teaching days. Funny student attendance at these classes on strike days was also high.
- “A box-cutter can bring down a tower.”
A box cutter can cause Cruise Missiles to fly in Afghanistan and Iraq. It can put a tyrant in jail and cause lunatics to cry out “blood for oil”.
The sacred box cutter can empower those in touch with the “truth” to slash their naughty conservative brothers to tiny bits.
- #72,73:
Any recipe for Cindy would undoubtedly stipulate leaving the dish half-baked.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 05 26 at 07:19 PM • permalink
- Invader Zinn???
http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/zim/
Nah the cartoon character is more coherent.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 26 at 07:34 PM • permalink
- wronwright—you could do that, but then she’d have to fall back on Big Mo. Are you sure you want that?Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 26 at 08:14 PM • permalink
- swung the sticks today, no attacks.
The word’s getting around! “That feller there with the Bombay Sapphire in the back pocket? Don’t mess…”Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 05 26 at 08:22 PM • permalink
- ‘John Lennon’s Imagine was banned in the US after 9/11.’ Oh no.
A more anti-Christian, Marxist rant is hard to ‘imagine’.
No Hell, no Heaven, so nothing to die for.
Unite the World and all be one, join us for the Marxist Peace Paradise a la 1970.Now *that* is an antique since 9/11, but guess what?
It was the featured song at the Torino Winter Olympics 2006 where Yoko Ono was the honoured guest.
So Europe has been Ononised and
de-Christianised officially.
God help us.
- 1 Texas Bob
I never knew a person could shove their head quite that far up their own ass.
Well this person can and if he can, Cindy is a slam dunk.
- thefrollickingmole wrote:
Invader Zinn???
http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/zim/
Nah the cartoon character is more coherent.
Gir is more coherent.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2006 05 26 at 09:11 PM • permalink
- Andrea stands back, admiring the new spear and antique shield now sharing wall space with her precious paddle of well-polished Brazilian walnut. Then she peered more closely at the spear, frowning—surely that was a spot of blood and a shred of skin that looked as if it came from a human finger hanging from the wrapping around the base of the spear head. She shrugged and smiled. My but the little fellow had clung desperately to his toys. She decided that would leave the shredded bit of bloody flesh as a conversation… starter.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 05 26 at 09:12 PM • permalink
- Has anyone here seen the pics of Sheehan cuddling with Stott-Despoja?
It’s not what I’d call pretty, and I think Stott-Despoja could use a hand doing her make up.
The turn out at this “Free Hicks” rally is pathetic, there must be about a dozen at most with 4 dickheads in orange jumpsuits. The twat in the Chicken wire cage looks especially glum…
How does Sheehan finance a tour of this nature? How could she justify it as being worth her while?
- “Imagine there’s no possessions”?
I can only imagine Yoko Ono screaming copyright infringement if somebody tried to use John Lennon’s intellectual property….
Posted by Ted Schuerzinger on 2006 05 26 at 11:58 PM • permalink
- Applies liberal amount of jelly from tube on injured finger. Ooowwwww! This jelly ain’t worth shit. Decides maybe Andrea wasn’t distracted after all. Looks at empty spaces on wall where spear and shield had formerly been mounted. Resolves to go tattle on Andrea to Tim Blair. Show him injured finger and butt cheek. Rely on his well known sense of fair play.Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 27 at 02:22 AM • permalink
- #84 I saw that article,
He [Marrickville Mayor Sam Byrne] said the centre challenged “children’s perception of what is ‘normal’ gender and sexual identity”.
I challenge his perception of reality, but being a green, his neurone is no doubt in a different universe.
Child Care NSW president Lyn Connolly said there was no book list for centres to draw from, but in order for centres to meet “high quality” they relied on a variety of resources, including the Learn to Include books.
I’m going to be checking up at the place we use, yes sireeee.
- Let us give due reverance to Free Speech. There is nothing like letting someone go on (and on and on) about whatever it is that’s bothering them. I say we ought to fund a
full hourhalf-hour15 min. infomercial-type show and make sure she writes it herself.The MSM in the US will now add Australia to the list of foreign countries She has been to. They talked about Venezuela as though she had been visiting royalty, leaving out the nature of her visit and within what context. Why the woman has become international! She must be giddy.
How does anyone that stupid manage to stay alive?
- # 96
The only thing worse than Imagine would be anything ‘sung’ by Ono. (Yoko that is.)
#99
Saw on the TV somone waffling on about the direction of infant school teaching. How so much must be covered, included in the waffle I heard words to the effect of ensuring that the little kids have an appreciation of reconciliation…
WTF, can someone explain to me what infants’ school kids have to reconcile? It’s just perpetuating the bullshit.
- Memo
To: The Honourable Mistress Andrea
From: Chief MinionPer your request, staffing levels for the cleaning, dusting and polishing crew for your trophy room have been increased.
Regards, etc
<BUGGER!! That damned trophy room is so full now that junior minions are getting lost in there. Man, even the ceiling is full. Hmm. If we take out that wall there, and panel the place in endangered tropical hardwoods, we can relieve congestion in Andrea’s trophy room by 50%… and nobody much uses the bastinado rooms any more. Another tradition gone!>
- hey crash,
How about giving us some more off topic links?
Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 27 at 09:56 AM • permalink
- #96 “I can only imagine Yoko Ono screaming copyright infringement if somebody tried to use John Lennon’s intellectual property.”
Well, ask and ye shall receive.
Those “imagine” people just lost a case in the British courts regarding copyright infringement by Apple Corps use of their music in the ipods.
- Oh WOW!! RebeccaH has been using the Bastinado room! How I have missed the screams.
Seriously cool. OK, Hmm. Right, that large store-room seems to be unused except for some unauthorised stash of Sumerian Mead, I’ll get that cleaned out, black marble paved, get Italian white marble wall panelling to show the blood spatters and so you get that lovely echo-ey effect from all the screaming… This will work rather nicely. Small furnace installed to heat the barbed wire whips to red heat, and a lady, too. Hmm, nice Roman chaise-lounge to admire one’s handiwork from, I think.
Who was the brave, brave soul who said to get rid of the rhino horns and elephant tusks from the Honourable Mistress Andrea’s trophy room? Erm, Ushie, the last person who suggested that is IN the trophy room, and it is worth anyone’s life to remove the ultra-huge elephant tusk from the flayed and shredded corpse. Hoffa, I think the name was. I recall we had to start some huge conspiracy rumours to cover up his disappearance. Think rabbit impaled on a star picket after an encounter with a horde of demented civets. Oh no, careful dusting, oiling and polishing, everything just so. How do you think the Honourable Mistress Andrea acquired all those trophys (especially the ones in formaldehyde), through being NICE? I mean, it runs in the genes, hers was the family that Vlad the Impaler copied.MarkL
Canberra
Is there no end to the lies these people are willing to tell? ‘Imagine’ banned in America? How I hope someone calls him on that statement.
… hasnt been banned in Australia yet, has it?
Posted by dee on 2006 05 26 at 06:35 AM • permalinkThe film clip of the cover version of the song by A Perfect Circle was shown locally on Rage a couple of weeks ago.
This is what was banned because it included news clips of the Iraq war. The bits featuring blood were deemed too shocking for US audiences to see I believe.
- 107 Ushie
You know, in all my life, I have never met anyone who, when Yoko One is mentioned, said, “Oh, what a wonderful person and artist she is…”
Also unheard:
“Oh, those effing Beatles just put out another record, how I wish they would stop doing that …”Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 28 at 11:11 AM • permalink
- I had successfully blanked that from my memory up until just now, thank you very little!Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 28 at 01:56 PM • permalink
- You’re evil, you are. Just stop that right now!Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 28 at 06:50 PM • permalink
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