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Cleanse newspapers of conservative columnists! Jail warmening unbelievers! Cull malls! But, on the other hand …
Cave in to sharia law!
UPDATE:
She’s angry about shops.
UPDATE II. Murph, an Australian in the UK, writes:
And Williams and his co. pinko-poofo-commo-greeno mates wonder why their flock is disappearing. They wonder why, for the first time in 400 years, their are more Catholic churchgoers than CofE in England.
I received a leaflet in the post two days ago from my local CofE vicar, one Rev. Cranfield of Blackheath parish. It had nothing about true spirituality or morality; instead it was filled with bullshit about global warming.
UPDATE III. Melissa M. emails: “That is one ferocious head tilt. It’s actually a rarely seen variant — the backwards head tilter.”
An approach to law which simply said – there’s one law for everybody – I think that’s a bit of a danger
Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
I’m practically speechless after reading this. Frankly, if the British let him get remain as the Archbishop after this effort they deserve to be enslaved.
Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion.
Treat everyone differently for equality.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
This guy is a complete parody.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 02 07 at 10:36 AM • permalink
Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4’s World at One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.
Just as these gentlemen didn’t “relate to the British legal system”. What’s the difference?
…Dr Williams says the argument that “there’s one law for everybody… I think that’s a bit of a danger”.
This man is an imbecile.
Shops? I thought she was (justifiably) calling for the immediate and painful death of the great hairy testicle* Rowan Williams.
Some people need to sort out their priorities.
* Apologies to all hairy testicles around the world, but he’s WAY worse than any twat.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 07 at 11:02 AM • permalink
I’m sure I saw that mouth in a movie I watched some time ago. In my younger years of course, pre PC ed ness. I would never do it now.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2008 02 07 at 11:03 AM • permalink
I sincerely hope this just means that Iowahawk infiltrated the BBC. The alternative is too depressing to contemplate.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2008 02 07 at 11:03 AM • permalink
- Thank heavens my people were run out , starved out or left voluntarily from the sceptered isle. After 250 plus years in the new world we’ve apparently become a separate species.
I thought equality under the law was the whole point.
Doc Williams and his flock are not like us. They’re from the fucking moon.
Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4’s World at One that the UK has to “face up to the fact” that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal system.
That’s been a problem here, too, with some people having a problem relating to the American legal system. Like John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde Barrow, Jefferey Dahmer, Willie Sutton, and Al Capone, to name a few. But we didn’t roll over for them.
Comparable ANGER towards anything but the one-party line at Rudd buttock-smooching collective, Larvatus Prodeo. Fresh from LP’s famous literacy-blender comes Robert Merkel’s simply livid denunciation of an alternative view from the Opposition benches:
So Nelson wants an “apology” that, by refusing to use the term that the group being apologised to has chosen to refer themselves as, denies their interpretation of events that require the apology.
Qué?
“For example, Muslims could choose to have marital disputes or financial matters dealt with in a Sharia court.”
The Crown reserving to itself the right to determine the size of the rocks that can be used to stone adulteresses, and the right to review requests to waive the requirement that the rocks be of local origin.
Allah Save the Queen
And Williams and his co. pinko-poofo-commo-greeno mates wonder why their flock is disappearing. They wonder why, for the first time in 400 years, their are more Catholic churchgoers than CofE in England.
I received a leaflet in the post two days ago from my local CofE vicar, one Rev. Cranfield of Blackheath parish. It had nothing about true spirituality or morality; instead it was filled with bullshit about global warming.
My wife is Anglican and has suggested that we attend the occasional Mass in order to be more involved with the local community. As I said to her, there’s more chance of me turning up to a Hare Krishna temple than stand and listen to some pontificating commo wanker preaching vacuous environazi bullshit at us from his pullpit.
The English Catholic Church is not much healthier, culturally speaking, than Dr Williams’ trainwreck. With the retirement of Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor now imminent, many Catholics are hoping for a more cultually robust Archbishop of Westminster – a man with a pair of the items mentioned in #6, above. English Catholic affairs blogger Damian Thompson last month received from his readers a selection of nominations for a replacement, amongst which Cardinal George Pell of Sydney received the second highest number of nominations! But we’ll hang on to George, my dear limey co-religionists, if you don’t mind.
#12 Sorry Paco, there you are mistaken. The only ones who have the right to determine the size of rocks are in Brussels. And the origin is not so important as long as it is within the EU (well except those pesky Eastern European countries, they can’t come from there). Also rocks must be weighed in kg, not lbs.
Posted by Not My Problem on 2008 02 07 at 12:00 PM • permalink
So the Archbishop is bending over….
Drop your c*@k and grab your socks, here it comes…..
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 02 07 at 12:05 PM • permalink
Hey…..I just realized that when I want to post a comment the button says “submit” just like the Archbishop……
Come to think of it, maybe we should change the button to “Post”…..
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 02 07 at 12:07 PM • permalink
#15 NMP: Thanks for the update. I should have known that this was another right that had been forfeited to the EU. I guess the Queen’s latest radio message was garbled somewhat due to the interference of the Royal burkha.
Seriously, though, it is all quite revolting. But it brings to mind something from (I believe) Mathew Arnold that I’ve quoted before: The great thing about the Church of England is that it doesn’t interfere with a man’s politics or his religion.
Williams seems to have done more upholding of Islamic principles than he has of his own religion. That would seem to disqualify him for the position he holds. As for politics, he should keep his nose out.
And what’s the big objection to the St. Kilda project? Are people actually objecting to more jobs, and places to shop?
Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion. For example, Muslims could choose to have marital disputes or financial matters dealt with in a Sharia court.
Oh come on everbody. Loosen up. This sounds very very reasonable. I’m just sure—so sure I’m willing to bet Great Britain’s future on it—that the Muslims would be satisfied with that small concession. They’re reasonable people.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 07 at 01:09 PM • permalink
I’ve been shaking my head a lot over what appear to be the dim prospects for the Republican Party and for conservatives as a politically viable force in the U.S (and elsewhere), but people like this give me some cause for hope.
Thanks for that, as bad as things look today at least we have (hopefully) something to look forward to.
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 02 07 at 01:49 PM • permalink
Well we know 2 things for sure now. The next President will be the first Senator to be elected since John Kennedy, and will be a liberal……..
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 02 07 at 02:07 PM • permalink
I’m sure I saw that mouth in a movie I watched some time ago. In my younger years of course, pre PC ed ness. I would never do it now.
Yeah, I saw that one, too.
Upon further reflection, however, this and this are all too frighteningly similar.
:^O
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 07 at 02:25 PM • permalink
Watch for the new movie featuring the Archbishop of Canterbury: Dim and Dhimmi
Posted by charles austin on 2008 02 07 at 02:45 PM • permalink
I think Mr. Guthrie would be an advocate of “one man, one vote, one time.”
Posted by charles austin on 2008 02 07 at 02:46 PM • permalink
#7 Whale Spinor; #30 Spiny Norman
Were you guys at my Bachelor party???
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 02 07 at 03:08 PM • permalink
#28 Old Tanker: You got that right, good buddy.
Now, the big difference between liberals and conservatives in the U.S. is this. When liberals get a conservative president, they threaten to move to Canada. When conservatives get a liberal president, they just go out and buy themselves a new gun or a secluded place in the country. I don’t need any new weapons, but I am runnin’ low on ammo. And a cabin down in the foothills of the Uwharrie Mountains, round about the old Carolina gold country near Little Dutch Buffalo Creek, is lookin’ like a right nice prospect.
I’m sure I saw that mouth in a movie I watched some time ago. In my younger years of course, pre PC ed ness. I would never do it now.
It’d be funny to have a caption contest. You know, like “Come on big boy”.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 07 at 03:25 PM • permalink
Among those protesting were actors Rachel Griffiths and Magda Szubanski and comedian Dave Hughes.
We have more celebrities on our side than you do. Therefor, our ideas carry much more weight than yours.
Like hell. Most of these “celebs” have no more cerebral activity than a gaggle of muppets.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 07 at 03:26 PM • permalink
I just got some shiny new bang bang for my last Birthday, but I could always use more ammo…. better put my order into Precision Amunition Company and Ordinance
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 02 07 at 03:26 PM • permalink
Oh, and we have 240 acres of heaven in the least populated county in all of Michigan, now THAT’S secluded….
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 02 07 at 03:30 PM • permalink
#42: Believe it or not, it is in the Lower Peninsula, but WAY northern lower pen. The county has only ONE stoplight in the entire county (Presque Isle county)
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 02 07 at 03:54 PM • permalink
Keep clicking on that redevelopment link and there’s a story about a naked samba dancer.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2008 02 07 at 03:57 PM • permalink
- &startFaine is pretending to be wickedly provocative, while putting his own point of view forward.
He thinks he’s being very clever, using the publicly funded airwaves as his own personal soapbox.He embarked on a career as a lawyer with with noble aspirations no doubt, but ended up with a radio show – a sort of failed Jeremy Sear, I suppose.
I read the article about the St Kilda triangle redvelopment yesterday. I don’t live in St Kilda and hitherto I’ve known nothing about the redevelopment. Occasionally I visit clients there and see heroin-chic streetwalkers hawking the hips. Interstate or overseas visitors I take to Acland St for coffee and cakes, of course.
But when I say who was against the redevelopment my immediate reaction was, “It’s a great thing – a wonderful thing! Let’s do it ASAP!” As a reader hinted above, these are are lot of C-grade ‘celebrities’ who know nothing about nothing.
Posted by walterplinge on 2008 02 07 at 04:22 PM • permalink
“Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion.”
No thanks. I don’t care to live in a country where men can enter into “marriages” with nine year old girls, which is allowed, under the Iranian version of Sharia. I’d prefer not to have that kind of social cohesion in my neck of the woods, thank you very much.
Rowan Williams is a total ass.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 02 07 at 04:48 PM • permalink
Paco—the liberals always threaten to move to Canada, but they never do. I offered several a lift to the airport after the last election, but they all declined.
One other thing about the difference between liberals and conservatives (which is important to remember come convention season).
When conservatives don’t get what they want, they boo, and jump up and down, and sulk, and hold their breath, but then decide to work harder at winning next time.
When liberals don’t get what they want, they break things, especially if they feel they have been cheated. Obama and HRC are going into the convention essentially tied. HRC now represents the old Democrats, Obama the new Democrats. Hillary gets the beer drinkers, Obama the chardonay drinkers.
The Democratic nomination may be decided by the “super delegates” (who are not chosen by primaries or cauci). Add in the issue of the Michigan and Florida delegates, and it could get ugly in Denver.
Remember, the police are here to “preserve disorder”
So the future they would want seems to be this:
1: Jail those who disagree with you
2: Silence those who would report such dissent, and make sure the media reflects the postion of the government.
3: Cave into relious fundamentalismSo are they collectively advocating That we live in Iran?
I’m particularly worried that the protesters of the development brought a guillotine.
The Reign of Terror seems to be what they are advocating.
Building codes are not restrictive at all and the price of acreage is still pretty low on the East side of the state. The west side (Traverse City) is getting pricey and that’s where the eco freaks will show up first. Michael Moore owns property over there.
We have about 1/2 mile of lake front on a lake with only 3 other properties. When I’m up there I can completely forget about the world. Hunting, fishing, shootin’, cross country skiing, man I could keep going and going……
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 02 07 at 05:15 PM • permalink
- a sort of failed Jeremy Sear
Can there be a more damning dismissal of one’s human value?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 07 at 05:30 PM • permalink
Here is the Archbishop of Canterbury’s contact page: http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/102
I suggest everyone here write something to Williams telling him where to stick his views and to step down as Archbishop.
Godspeed.
In a real sense, a tragedy that there are still many old men and women still alive to hear this stinking perverted freak spout its vile gangremous vomit. Folk who fought to preserve their land, and the free world, from “a new dark age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted by the lights of perverted science.”
Have a nice day!!
#52—After the French elected Sarkozy, I went on a website and offered to switch appartments with any bitter socialist in Paris. I had no takers.
#56, #59—how long before the Archbishop, in the name of tolerance and friendship, hands over one of the old Cathedrals of England for use as a mosque?
Now press SUBMIT!
John Faine shows yet again that under the skin of every socialist beats the heart of a Stalinist. But Faine is a nobody because he preaches to his fan club and the other 99.9% of Australians have either never heard of him or think he is a goose.
A much more influential and dangerous person is Rowan Williams. Henry II’s line about his Archbishop of Canterbury – “Who will rid me of this turbulent priest” – has never been more appropriate.
[badpun]With Williams in charge of the C of E Britain’s Rowan up shit creek in a barbwire canoe[/badpun]
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 07 at 05:56 PM • permalink
Do any of the “celebrities” or “celebrities by blood” actually LIVE in St Kilda?
The shouty sheila looks like a recently hosed off hippie. Anti-shops… no money, of course. However, she might be willing to trade some beads and incense for stuff.
G’day JLC. Where were you?
Any truth in the comment I read, somwhere, that Traveston is not the best place for the dam as it’s flat, not a valley. I don’t recall where I read it. Sorry. Wolfdene would be best…
I now find myself in London, where I blieve sic) the head honcho of the CofE also resides.
My collegues here in pommieland are poms, walish, USAians,etc.
We are trying to bring hydroelectric power to energy-deficient parts of Africa.
I find it interesting that so many of the commenters here are catholic (like me) and I wonder why that should be. I know we were all brought up to fend for ourselves.
I wonder how many of those St K protesters can take their heritage south of the Yarra as far back as I can?
I strongly suggest tahat they go fuck themselves. And the CofE guy and his Mozzie buddy Charlie Windsor should also go and fuck themselves.
…ramblings from an Australian-Canadian forced to spend time in pommieland
Jeez, Kae – I posted without reading down through the comments. Sorry about that.
Of course this is strictly between you and me.
As far as TCD is concerned, one side of the river is perfect for a dam. The other side – not outstanding.
Fundamentally, it’s a political decision. I can tell you categorically that I and my collegues can build an environmentally acceptable dam, just as we did on the Burnett.
I’ve been there. I’ve seen all the stupid signs.
What I didn’t see were any contrary signs.
EG: “Gyobs for Gympie”, “let the fish fuck in tranquility”.
Up to youse. We encountered no opposiion to project during recent visit. Landowners hqppy with buyout.
jlc
Yes, Sharia law is good,
but he doesn’t mean to carry it to it’s conclusion, like there’ll be no stoning.
Camilla Hussein, lecturer in Islamic Law at Uni of Technology, intervewed in Aus about Sharia says that they are mostly happy with Aus law, but the family law would be better if it was Sharia.
It’s awkward for muslims to have to go to family court.
paraphrased.
Now she’s saying that there are hardly any countries who use sharia criminal law. Saudi and, one other she mentioned.
Honestly, why come to Australia and change it? Didn’t you come here for the freedom and the better life? If you want to have the minutiae of your life controlled by someone else stay away.
Now comparing the call for (bits of) sharia in the UK to the Jewish court and the advisors of Jewis law…. sorry, missed some of that.
Can’t find anything quoting her on ABC news site yet.
Did I just get 69 and not notice?
Story of my life.
Hi JLC
Hmm. The whiner about Traveston said that it would only be 5m deep and evaporation would be high as opposed to, er, somewhere else in, in a valley.
I think it’s much more important for humans to have water than to save the lesser spotted, putrid scented greenie.
Peter Costello, well Said that Man.
Interview with Paul Murray
6PRFriday, 24 February 2006
8.30 am
(Perth time)
“Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion.”
Accused: “Look, all I said was that piece of fish was good enough for Allah!”
Jury/hysterical mob: “Blasphemer! Stone the Infidel”.
With apologies to the pythons.
Naturally, all stonings and beheadings will be conducted in accordance with EU Workplace Health and Safety mandates.
Posted by anonymous guest on 2008 02 07 at 06:42 PM • permalink
- #71 True enough, Kae,but look at the date -Feb 06 Ancient History, . PC and multiculti will be back with a vengeance.Soon.
It is tasteless to speak ill of the dead (politically) but one of the coalitions real failures was not to cut away this gangrene which is rotting us.Easy to say. But some of us, many our kids and all our grandkids will pay a great price.
Say, I wonder how Hillary’s doing among Jewish voters these days?
Napoleon, that Braveheart fellow, Hitler, the IRA; all quietly smiling to themselves.
Winnie spinning in his grave.
Would be great to see Betty Two Strokes make a two word address to the nation: “Pig’s Arse”.
Does she have the power to remove this nut and put his head on a pike ?
On the other hand, a statement such as this from a person such as this must surely jolt the poms into some sort of action. The situation is beyond serious.
My thread! My thread! Two Canadians and a brit.
First Mark Steyn IS A CANADIAN. I am proud of it.
Second, the fruit-fly guy is a canadian, and I am embarassed by it.
And as for the Mullah of Canterbury, less said the better. Can someone remind him he is a Christian.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 07 at 07:01 PM • permalink
Has anyone else noticed the lady in the pic only has two teeth?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 07 at 07:03 PM • permalink
Britain’s creeping appeasement is a major concern and may lead to the end of the “mother of the free.” It would break my heart and hopefully arouse the fury of the Anglosphere. But its far more likely that the everyday Briton has woken up since 2005 and the next generation of political leadership is still asleep. I don’t underestimate British pride. They’ll turn it around.
In any case William Wentworth had already considered it many years ago;
And, oh, Britannia! shouldst thou cease to ride
Despotic Empress of old Ocean’s tide—
Should thy tamed lion—spent his former might—
No longer roar, the terror of the fight;
Should e’er arrive that dark, disastrous hour,
When, bowed by luxury, thou yield’st to power;
When thou, no longer freest of the free
To some proud victor bend’st the vanquished knee;
May all thy glories in another sphere
Relume, and shine more brightly still than here;
May this, thy last-born infant then arise,
To glad thy heart, and greet thy parent eyes;
And Australasia float, with flag unfurled,
A new Britannia in another world!
- #69. kae.
Where ever these people migrate to, their first loyalty is to their ‘cult’ and ensuring that their host nation becomes a part of that system. It says something along those lines in the Quran. The way to do it, is to infiltrate our institutions and universities etc. Get elected to our parliaments, not to make a difference to their host nation, but to pave the way for their system, hence the talk of appeasers like Williamson et el. They also encourage the adoption of laws to make dissent illegal, ie; racial vilification laws etc. Thus slowly pushing ‘non believers’ into the ‘racist’ category, dhimmitude by slur, (or try to get Sharia law inserted into the legal system of a nation). Make a lot of noise or play the victim card, do anything within the law of their host country to undermine it. Hence you will hear the apologists of the left (how split minded are they) saying things like, ‘but there is only a minority of Muslims involved with that,’ or other such mutterings. With the bomb throwing terrorists, you know who they are and what they are capable off, with the other type, well, just look at Europe. After all, their first and only loyalty is to their belief system, everything else is secondary.
When you think about it, the old Indian custom of suttee is not far removed from present day “honour killings”. One longs for another General Sir Charles James Napier, Governor-General of India, who famously said:
You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.
The General was not big on multiculturalism.
#13 murph, when you receive crap like that from someone like that, don’t just throw the literature away in disgust, take the time to inform the wanker of his wankerness.
They are always asking for blowfeedback.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 07 at 07:09 PM • permalink
Why would I lift my cook? I don’t understand.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 07 at 07:13 PM • permalink
hey, Paco, I’ve previously heard of this Jindal. You are right, he does have something. But, bet you dime to nickel, that his Louisianna opposition will try to entrap him in a scandal.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 07 at 07:21 PM • permalink
Rats, “submitted” too soon. That last post should have ended with:
Just look at the travails of our local mayor..
He simply wants to cut waste at City Hall. Imagine that! The horror! He potentially could be put in jail by all the vested interests he is taking on.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 07 at 07:25 PM • permalink
#28 #33 I assume the democrats will win. This will be the first time we the states will have a majority “minority” president.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 07 at 07:27 PM • permalink
#43 Old Tanker, but isn’t it dangerously close to Canada?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 07 at 07:30 PM • permalink
#83 The Napiers were a long line of successful Scots; I always remind folks here in N.America that it was the “British” empiure after all, not the English empire.
One of the Napiers invented logarithms, among other things.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 07 at 07:38 PM • permalink
ah yes but oh so far at the same time…..
But at least I didn’t buy land too close to the Sault…. all those Canadians crossing the border and all!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 02 07 at 07:40 PM • permalink
When Sharia comes to town, I hope they build a brick wall on a soccer field and let if fall on your head, you walrus faced, limp wristed, incense burning poofter.
P.S Suck my nuts sideways.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 07 at 07:40 PM • permalink
You owe me a keyboard! The Bishop already gave in to the dark side!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 02 07 at 07:42 PM • permalink
- #88. kae.
Read your link; re – Peter Costello. He hit the nail on the head. Unfortunately, this will more than likely change. Under Labor, not only will the economy suffer but they will put our social cohesion on a more internationalist footing via the UN, thus further diluting our national identity, this, to a certain extent, I think is happening in Europe now via the EU, making the task of certain minorities a lot easier.
“And you forgot to mention using our tolerance and freedom against us.”
Personally, I’m not so tolerant that I’m willing to live in a country that applies Sharia law to anybody.
I’d kick every last Muslim out of the United States before I’d go along with that.
Freedom and tolerance be damned.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 02 07 at 07:54 PM • permalink
Can Betty II remove the archdhimmi of dhimbury??. She just might, the English Constitution being a body of precedent rather than a formal written document, might allow it -she is after all, defender of the faiththat that this catamite is trying to destroy at least what vestiges remain. Don’t think she can have him Hd, Dn and 1/4d any more though. Shame in a way…could be seen as society reaching out to the musses love of violence.
Another Catholic here – go along to mass at North Sydney next time you’re up there – it’s all global warming, stolen generations and justice for Palestine. If it wasn’t for the masthead and mass timetable at the top of the parish bulletin it could be an issue of “Resistance”.
On a positive note – at least it forces you to listen – if you’re not careful during the intercessions you could find yourself praying for the destruction of Israel.
Posted by Pig Head Sucker on 2008 02 07 at 07:58 PM • permalink
- #107
Pig Head Sucker, Murph and others offended/annoyed/angry at the Church preaching AGW etc, perhaps if you attend church you should be pointing out the error of their ways? Surely there are like-minded people who do not go along with the leftist view of the world, and who object strongly to it being preached?
#104 Hey, precident says that the monarch has the Mullah of Canterbury assissinated.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 07 at 08:06 PM • permalink
#26, Yojimbo, According to the Australian newspaper its because he ran out of cash:
‘Mr Romney’s plan had always been to win the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, a classic momentum-building strategy — backed by his $250 personal fortune‘
Ive spent more than US$250 on a pair of boots, dont they edit the Aussie?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 07 at 08:08 PM • permalink
#69 Now comparing the call for (bits of) sharia in the UK to the Jewish court and the advisors of Jewis law…. sorry, missed some of that.
The next time someone tries to compare sharia law to Jewish law, remind them that rabbinical court rulings are only binding on religious Jews who agree to abide by them. They have absolutely no legal standing under civil law anywhere but in Israel. But Muslims intend very deliberately to force civil governments to bend to sharia law, something Jews have never done (anywhere but Israel).
#80 Wimpy. Only two teeth. She seems to have not developed emotionally as well as physically. Most likely the vegan diet, too many joints, too long waiting for the public dental system to do its job, too long on the dole (or at Uni) and the peer pressure from her toothless friends.
Did you notice all those young brain washed children holding the small signs in front of the brain washed un washed adults?
I think it depends on which church you go to and a short distance can make a long difference.
Sth Brisbane is as you describe Nth Syd. However, if you go about 3kms up the hill to St Francis you get a congregation of 1st 2nd and 3rd generation Vietnamese and Lebanese “reffos”.
None of that lefty rubbish at that one, probably because they’ve been at the sharp end of communism and islam. And fled it.
- #83
Regarding the origins of suttee:‘The Hindu practice of “Johar” or “Sacrifice”
started in medieval times, when Muslim armies were conquering Hindu India. The muslims would lay siege to forts/cities and when the worn out Hindu soldiers came out to surrender – they would all be brutally massacred, followed by the mass rape & forcible conversion to islam of all remaining Hindu women.This may have been customary islamic tradition, which they practised in all lands they conquered.
However, physical violence against and denigration of womanhood in this manner was considered the most intolerable of all insults in Hindu civilization.Therefore, the Hindu women would pray to God & commit collective suicide before their men left for battle – to avoid the humiliation of rape and forcible conversion to Islam.
But, why burn themselves, you may ask?
Why not just kill oneself in a less gruesome fashion, such as consuming poison or something similar?Well, the Hindus discovered to their horror that the Muslims were such perverts that they even
indulged in necrophilia. Therefore, the supreme sacrifice was to be undertaken to protect chastity and honour at all costs.This tradition was still relevant for the protection of Hindu widows as long as Muslim rule lasted in India, i.e. until the establishment of British rule, who were quite barbaric themselves, but infinitely better than the Muslims.
This was a noble tradition and I as a Hindu am proud of it, no matter what anyone may say out of their ignorance and arrogance.’
– copied from a post by a Hindu commentator at Jihad Watch.
Nth Syd isn’t my parish; it’s the one I usually attend when I’m up there. Down here is Tas we don’t get that sort of stuff – instead we get anaemic sermons about nothing that warble on for a few minutes and send you to sleep. I’m generally woken up by the rattling of the collection plate.
About 18 months ago I attended St Mary’s in Sydney – the priest (not Pell) started the sermon with, “Today I’m going to talk about the church’s position on Purgatory…”. It was fantastic!
I’ve even heard the word “abortion” mentioned from the pulpit at St Mary’s. That’s a word that hasn’t been spoken on 90% of Australian churches.
Posted by Pig Head Sucker on 2008 02 07 at 08:30 PM • permalink
The_Wizard_of_WOZ—consdiering how the dollar has fallen, maybe all he has left is $250.
In any event, there are a lot of people who think he was really paving the way for a 2012 run. Most GOPers (such as myself) figure the Dems have this sewn up. Alternatively, Romney figures McCain is a one termer given his age.
Has anyone else noticed the lady in the pic only has two teeth?
<Insert beaver joke here……>
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 07 at 08:34 PM • permalink
- But there is no appeasment so base the Gaurdian newspaper wont print an apologist for it.
In the archbishop’s vision of a kinder, more feminist, sharia – a vision shared by some reforming Muslims – Islamic law would become an instrument of the liberation of women from their cultural shackles, and the British state would ease the process along.
What a maroon.Heres the full text of the bearded testicles sermon, Here.When purile crap like this “..To recognise sharia is to recognise a method of jurisprudence governed by revealed texts rather than a single system..” is called a good thing I truely wonder at the sanity of the person calling for it.
Bollocks, “..Sharia is not, in that sense, intrinsically to do with any demand for Muslim dominance over non-Muslims..”
Textbook Marxist bollocks alert!! “…have argued recently in a discussion of the moral background to legislation about incitement to religious hatred that any crime involving religious offence has to be thought about in terms of its tendency to create or reinforce a position in which a religious person or group could be gravely disadvantaged in regard to access to speaking in public in their own right: offence needs to be connected to issues of power and status, so that a powerful individual or group making derogatory or defamatory statements about a disadvantaged minority might be thought to be increasing that disadvantage…”
Otherwise known as “sticking it to whitey”
This is from the first half of this uberdhimmis speech, someone with more tollerance for crap can fisk the rest of it much better Im sure.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 07 at 08:54 PM • permalink
We do like to keep pretending that there is any real moral value, or even long term survivability, in pursuing the obviously bankrupt policy of attempting to peacefully coexist with those who’ve given themselves over to supporting the agenda of the enemy.
As we see now, as one wave (the aging hippy neo-communists) fades out, the next wave (pomo multi cults and other forms of reformed neo-communist/western jihadi apologists) ride in and fill the void.
Not only does this never go away, but each wave starts at the high water mark left by the other.
Equivocation is just the first step along the road to capitulation.
- Shame on you all for mocking the “invisible fellatio rapist mans” last victim in her pain!!
Caught in mid-assault in Tims top picture.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 07 at 08:57 PM • permalink
My dad used to play at the Palais de Danse, and after it burnt down in the 60s (a stocktake job) they built the Palace nightclub. The Palace saw some great acts, but I stopped going years ago because their last PA was murdering every act I saw there.
FFS, the St.Kilda triangle has been nothing but a dirt car-park and a crappy live venue for decades, and now even the nightclub is gone. Just to make their inner-city lefty minds explode they should have announced a illegal immigrant detention centre for the spot.
I probably have friends who were at that meeting last night. Groan.
Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2008 02 07 at 08:58 PM • permalink
I should have opened that up with the qualification of O/T since it was in response to “stinky hippy” and dhimmitude comments in this thread, instead of the topic starter at the top.
Locals bitching about local development is a local issue upon which I don’t have much of an opinion unless it’s local to me.
She was from Blenheim ?
That should have given it away
“#115 Mike W. That is fascinating.”
It might be fascinating, but it isn’t correct.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 02 07 at 09:22 PM • permalink
OT: Aborigines in Canberra are having a blue because one mob says the wrong elder has been appointed to “welcome” Parliament. Fear not – Kevni has a solution. A second “elder” from the other mob will also “welcome” our representatives.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
- O/T
Just got an email from a freind who once had a teenage son.I said it couldn’t be her son, too many words in his vocabulary, and he’s not lying on the sofa sying “Pass the remote”.
From Chapter 3, Muslims Invade India
The Legacy of Muslim Rule of India
by K.S. Lal“When the Rani saw her doom inevitable, she assembled all the women in the fort and addressed them thus: ?God forbid that we should owe our liberty to those outcaste cow-eaters. Our honour would be lost. Our respite is at an end, and there is nowhere any hope of escape; let us collect wood, cotton and oil, for I think we should burn ourselves and go to meet our husbands. If any wish to save herself, she may.?16 They entered into a house where they burnt themselves in the fire of jauhar thereby vindicating the honour of their race. Muhammad occupied the fort, massacred the 6,000 men he found there and seized all the wealth and treasures that belonged to Dahir.”
Jones will be sorry that he didn’t go with the Premium Assurance Chest-hair Organization.
The article also has this: “The most famous rear end in the world – the one belonging to Jennifer Lopez – is also said to be insured by the London-based insurance house.”
I wonder who the lucky appraiser was who got that assignment.
#131, Pickles, When in doubt, look to the Pythons for wisdom.
And for Gods sake watch out for the crack suicide squad of the Judean Peoples Front…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 07 at 09:59 PM • permalink
- #117, Room 237, I am not so sure the election is in the bag for the democrats. McCain can beat either one. Hillary has high consistent negatives. Osama Obama will look like the green, inexperienced pup he is next to the “wise” elder statesman, McCain. The fact that Congress is Democrat doesn’t hurt the Republicans either, since the country seems to seek a balance between branches.
Or I could just be talking out of my ass because the thought of a Democrat in the White House scares the crap out of me.
#73 – Naturally, all stonings and beheadings will be conducted in accordance with EU Workplace Health and Safety mandates.
Folks, that is one of the great lines posted here for many a month.
In just one sentence the dual tragedies of European cultural capitulation to Islam and centralised, socialist bureaucracy come together in a way that is both amusing but, frighteningly, also possible.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2008 02 07 at 10:24 PM • permalink
Or I could just be talking out of my ass because the thought of a Democrat in the White House scares the crap out of me.
Latino, maybe you should take the
Interactive Collective Quiz and find out the true meaning of, The Common Good™
What is Sharia’s view on Roquefort Cheese and fruit wines?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 07 at 11:09 PM • permalink
Even the British Prime Minister has distanced himself from the Archbishop (for what that may be worth).
60-strong mob ‘in attack on police’:
POLICE say they were attacked by an angry mob of up to 60 people during an arrest at a house in south-western Sydney.
Hmmm.
Posted by We apologise for the inconvenience. on 2008 02 08 at 12:13 AM • permalink
How about Archbishop Cranmer to take over from that idiot Williams?
Shari’a may be a complex and convoluted legal system, but it means only one thing in the UK: oppression, barbarism and injustice. This judgement may in itself be unjust, but the word is alien and, like ‘jihad’, has taken on its own meaning. Shari’a law is in fact profoundly complex, and varies in interpretation and application from Islamic community to Islamic community. In one place, one may be publicly flogged merely for being in the presence of a member of the opposite sex, in another, one may be hanged. And it is the women and children who are executed, since the word of the man outweighs all others. Shari’a covers religious rituals, behaviour, dress codes, grooming and diet, and also legislates in matters of finance, trade, marriage and family – in short, it is a religio-political system for the whole of life. While the Archbishop may have been referring to the first of these – the ‘private realm’ – it is the application of Shari’a in the latter – the ‘public realm’ – which is utterly unacceptable in a modern, democratic and free society.
Either Dr Williams knew what he was saying, or how his words would be interpreted, which would be an abdication of his authority, or he was simply utterly naïve, in which case he should be removed from Canterbury. That the Archbishop has not been clear, and that he has permitted his words to be taken to imply his support for the application of Shari’a in the public realm, is a grievous error of judgement, and for this reason alone he ought to consider his position. It is politically unacceptable that the words of the leader of the Established Church should embolden those who advocate a parallel system of law for any group. He has given succour to those who would establish an Islamic theocracy in the UK, and has hastened the day when ‘Mary’s Dowry’ becomes another room in Mohammed’s Dar al-Islam.
As ever, our dear departed Archbishop nails it.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 02 08 at 12:21 AM • permalink
Well, the twat Williams was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by crypto-Catholic Tony Blair, who has now openly converted. A cunning Papist plot to wreck the Anglican Church?
Murph, sorry to hear about the state of Blackheath church. I used to worship there (about 12 years ago) and the quality of vicar was a lot higher then.
- Tiger,
Roquefort cheese is probably OK but wine is strictly prohibited, at any rate until the believer arrives in the Paradise Brothel and gets to party for eternity 24/7.If you remember that Mo bedded Aisha when she was nine you gotta wonder how old those 72 virgins are supposed to be. Ayatollah Khomeini was a big proponent of “catch ‘em young” too, although I think the Islamic Republic later found it necessary to raise the marriageable age for girls from nine years old to a mature 13.Posted by Michael Lonie on 2008 02 08 at 12:42 AM • permalink
- #151 Squakbox,
I don’t think the Anglicans need any help from the Papish to ruin themselves. They’ve been working on it many years, and very effectively too.They should translate the AB of Nigeria to Canterbury, or maybe promote the B. of Rochester. Those are guys who know what is going on, and believe in traditional Christianity.I’m looking forward to the day when missionaries from Africa travel to the Dark Continent of Europe to try to save the souls of the pagans there by converting them to Christianity.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2008 02 08 at 12:50 AM • permalink
I haven’t read everything above, but I hope I’m not the first to make the connection to today’s 15 Minute Lunch. Disturbing: See the “American Standard 7.0.
“When the Rani saw her doom inevitable, she assembled all the women in the fort and addressed them thus: ?God forbid that we should owe our liberty to those outcaste cow-eaters…”
That’s a totally different kind of female suicide, called Jauhar (suicide by women to avoid dishonor by being captured, usually carried out by immolating themselves en masse).
Sati or suttee is the term for females suiciding (somestimes involuntarily) by immolating themselves on the funeral pyre’s of their late husbands, and has been practiced in India at least as far back as Alexander the Great’s time, hundreds of years before Islam existed.
It’s a nasty custom, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the bad habits of invading Muslims.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 02 08 at 04:36 AM • permalink
139 – My thoughts ran to a similar conclusion. Wasn’t she Miss NSFW of 2003?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 02 08 at 05:09 AM • permalink
Friend of yours, Infidel Tiger?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 02 08 at 06:29 AM • permalink
#116 Spot on. PHS. The most conspicuous back off by the Catholic Church in Australia is on abortion. The silence is deafening. Our local Catholic homage home has one shallow leftie who encourages the kids from the local schools to yack on about left wing politics at the regular youth masses. The other is a Vietnamese chap who is just wonderful, and as pickles noted, as this guy is Vietnamese he doesn’t want a bar of the left crap because he has seen it in action.
#164 Unfortunately, Rowan Williams being hacked to pieces in Canterbury Cathedral might solve a few immediate problems, but consider the likely long-term effects. Look at what happened to Thomas a Becket afterwards. Do you really want Williams canonised, carbon-free pilgrimages to the site of his martyrdom, scraps of his ridiculous beard sold as holy relics?
Much better just to set him up with a choirboy.
on the shops thing, i am with the protestors not because they oppose shops, but because the land in question is crown land, owned by all us citizens of brumbistan, & ought not to be given away to some developer. st kilda is a magnet for relaxing melburnians & tourists, and the grass in the nearby tiny park is worn threadbare from overuse. there are shops galore within 100 metres of the site which cater perfectly adequately for the needs of all but the prada set. the developers have to build high to get a return, because they are required to restore the state-owned palais theatre on part of the land in question. i would also put money on the shopping centre being an absolute dud & the developers failing to restore the theatre. crown land was originally set aside is for essential state purposes and the enjoyment of the citizens. in the old days, most of it was occupied by a funfair with iconic laughing clowns that spawned lot of rude jokes & a pop band. now most locals & visitors would prefer a bit of greenery & some benches, and maybe a barbie for those summer evenings after the beach
band nostalgia here
gruesome clowns here
#164, Murph, 4 Knights? I’ve heard of a Horseman who sounds like hes up to the job, you might not even need to feed his pale horse.
#168, KK, Crown land isnt just owned by you victorians, its owned by ALL Australians. Just be happy they dont want to build a brickworks there.
Not that I’m complaining about ours, we need all the bricks we can get here in WOZ. You’d think the average house price hadn’t doubled in three years the way these twits carry on.
The Perth Airport is smack bang in the middle of our industrial area for those outside WOZ, therefore if you live near there, you know all about pollution.
Then theres the fact our ‘planning minister’ (oxymoron alert) has had a beef against Buckeridge since she got elected.
Dont get me started on that bitch.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 08 at 09:39 AM • permalink
Frankly, if the British let him get remain as the Archbishop after this effort they deserve to be enslaved.
The British are enslaved. They really, really have no say in the matter.
By the way, the Aussies stuffed Sri Lanka in the one-dayer and Bracken took 5 wickets (he was obviously hitting the one dollar pieces nearly every time). I’m puzzled why Bracken doesn’t play Tests as well – is he a one day specialist?
With the retirement of Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor now imminent, many Catholics are hoping for a more cultually robust Archbishop of Westminster – a man with a pair of the items mentioned in #6, above.
The point about testicles and Catholic archbishops is that although they may possess them, they are not allowed to use them.
It’s a nasty custom, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the bad habits of invading Muslims.
According to this source on the origins of sati , instances of sati might go back as far as 5500 years ago but the invading Muslims certainly added to the popularity of the practice:
“One finds a large number of satis committed just after the war (like the Johar in Rajasthan (map – topics), when the women must have died to protect their honor from the invading enemies after their men perished in the battlefield.”.I find it interesting that this sati timeline begins at approximately the time of Islam’s first attacks on India by Caliph Umar (634-44 C.E.).
#165 murph—When I was in law school, one of our chaplins was a Francisican who was devoted to John Cardinal Newman and loved all things English. I think he secretly wanted to be an Anglican.
At one point, during a meeting to discuss a papal letter, he and got into a shouting match. He felt that the Pope in the letter was trying to open up to the Orthodox Church and ignore the “Western Catholics” (as he called the Anglicans). My reaction was “good”. The shouting then began.
Am I the only one to notice the link about the retail-distressed young lady and Islamic Rage Boy? Are they by any chance related?
#170, John, He doesn’t get a run in tests because the selectors think Lee, Clark and Johnson are better than he is.
I wont argue with Lee and Clark, but I rekon Bracken has more right to be in white than Johnson or Tait.
Basically we have too many good bowlers. Watch me as I shed a tear for Australia.
😀
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 08 at 01:38 PM • permalink
Lee is a world-class strike bowler – definitely on my World XI
Clark I’ve been moderately impressed with, he’s not that quick but he’s quite accurate.
Johnson is still not accurate enough. Quick though.
Bracken has a laser sight on his right arm so as to bring his left to just the right angle. Frighteningly accurate.
Hopefully Sri Lanka will learn how to bat and make their matches worth watching.
#1 – Canada has not sunken to the level of dhimmitude of Britain (at least outside of the Socialist Republic of Toronto.) And unlike Australia, we have not established a national Mea Culpa Day or confiscated legally owned handguns. (Yeah, I know, the latter is a little off point, but it goes to the substance of political correctness.)
I love Aus. Been there a couple of times. But I think you guys are further down the slippery slope than we are.
On Easter, they will screw in a low-energy bulb … replacing high-energy light bulbs with dimmer low-energy ones seems a perfect image of the slow extinction of Christianity in England.
From Spiked: Taking the Ash out of Ash Wednesday
#178, John, I rate Clark as the logical replacement for McGrath. He’s very accurate and gets that kind of sharp bounce that only tall guys can produce. Makes him very hard to score from.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2008 02 09 at 07:02 AM • permalink
So this is what has become of a great nation. So much for multiculturalism. The Brits would not let Napoleon’s France get a leg in, nor Hitler’s Germany and they were European nations. Yet they will cave into a backward and violent cult, with a barbaric legal system. Talk about appeasers and internal subversion. Wonder when we in Australia will start feeling the effects, like Canada and England.