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September 07, 2013

Conservative'ish govt sweeps into power in Australia
— Purple Avenger

I figured the Aussies would eventually start coming to their senses and pull the eject handle on that lunatic Labor crew...and they did. ~52% majority. Not an overwhelming win, but a damned good start.

...Abbott, 55, built up a strong opinion poll lead on the back of promises to rein in government spending, scrap an unpopular tax on carbon emissions, and stop the flow of refugee boats arriving in Australia's northwest...

Here's the problem -- Americans aren't nearly as willing to call abject failure what it is as Aussies are. We've come to embrace the fail, perhaps even celebrate it to a degree. It takes Weiner class fail before Americans start to blanch a bit.

The funny thing about getting good service from any provider/supplier of goods, services, govt, etc is if you don't constantly expect it, and demand it, you gonna be getting the Weiner pretty much every time. Most people deliver what you'll tolerate, not what you actually want. If you want good service, don't tolerate bad service.

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1 Good on 'em.

Posted by: huerfano at September 07, 2013 08:21 AM (bAGA/)

2 it does help when someone actually articulates what you stand for too.

Posted by: Iblis at September 07, 2013 08:21 AM (rVtil)

3 t takes Weiner class fail before Americans start to blanch a bit. It's even worse than that. Because Weiner had to double fail before people stopped taking him seriously.

Posted by: blaster at September 07, 2013 08:24 AM (5Xlg3)

4 Most people deliver what you'll tolerate, not what you actually want. If you want good service, don't tolerate bad service. ------ NOT THE HILL TO DIE ON!!!

Posted by: the Smart Set at September 07, 2013 08:24 AM (5H6zj)

5 And how about the SCOAMF? Let me count the ways....

Posted by: blaster at September 07, 2013 08:24 AM (5Xlg3)

6 Speak like an aussie day?

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at September 07, 2013 08:25 AM (AWmfW)

7 Peruvia considers this a coup and has threatened to cut off aid.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 07, 2013 08:25 AM (9unm6)

8 t takes Weiner class fail before Americans start to blanch a bit.

It's even worse than that. Because Weiner had to double fail before people stopped taking him seriously.

Posted by: blaster at September 07, 2013 12:24 PM

You can't keep me down!

Posted by: Anthony Wiener at September 07, 2013 08:25 AM (bAGA/)

9 How about a 30 word or less education here, what is it about this government which makes the "conservativeish" instead of just conservative?

Posted by: BurtTC at September 07, 2013 08:26 AM (BeSEI)

10 Too bad the GOP is too ar gone to benefit from Austalia's example.

Posted by: eman at September 07, 2013 08:28 AM (AO9UG)

11 They're all in cahoots with Big Wallaby.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 07, 2013 08:28 AM (ZshNr)

12 'Americans aren't nearly as willing to call abject failure what it is as Aussies are. We've come to embrace the fail, perhaps even celebrate it to a degree.' That's 'cuz we don't do things half-assed here in the States. "Aww, that's not Failure! THIS is Failure!!"

Posted by: exhelodrvr at September 07, 2013 08:29 AM (edmTQ)

13 if you don't constantly expect it, and demand it, you gonna be getting the Weiner pretty much every time

Posted by: Purp at 12:17 PM

Prepare to receive my limp boener.

Posted by: John Boehner at September 07, 2013 08:29 AM (AWmfW)

14 Still too many damn snakes and crocodiles down there.

Posted by: eman at September 07, 2013 08:29 AM (AO9UG)

15 >it takes Weiner class fail before Americans start to blanch a bit.

no, I think King Putt's re-election indicates we haven't found the bottom just yet

this tells me the bottom will be damn-near apocalyptic

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 07, 2013 08:29 AM (8sCoq)

16 there is no such thing as a conservative win. there is only 'minority voter suppression." Any Democrat here in what remains of the US can tell you that.

Posted by: Mallfly at September 07, 2013 08:30 AM (bJm7W)

17 Aussie girls go topless at the beach

just sayin '

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 07, 2013 08:30 AM (8sCoq)

18 What we consider "fail" the left considers "Winning!".The LIV's go along because,well,isn't everybody cool a Democrat?

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2013 08:31 AM (9XBK2)

19 Paul Hogan was pretty funny at one time.

Posted by: Mallfly at September 07, 2013 08:31 AM (bJm7W)

20 They have refused to receive our limp peni.

Posted by: Labor Party Spokesman at September 07, 2013 08:31 AM (Aif/5)

21 17 So,what you are saying is ,America needs more bare tittehs?I go along with that.

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2013 08:32 AM (9XBK2)

22 I would love it if Anthony Weiner's name becomes synonymous with "failure." That would be great.

Posted by: Null at September 07, 2013 08:32 AM (P7hip)

23 International Business Machines Corp. plans to move about 110,000 retirees off its company-sponsored health plan and instead give them a payment to buy coverage on a health-insurance exchange, in a sign that even big, well-capitalized employers aren't likely to keep providing the once-common benefits as medical costs continue to rise.

The move, which will affect all IBM retirees once they become eligible for Medicare, will relieve the technology company of the responsibility of managing retirement health-care benefits. IBM said the growing cost of care makes its current plan unsustainable without big premium increases.

Posted by: Thomas Edison at September 07, 2013 08:32 AM (e8kgV)

24 from Aussie Tim Blair: "Very serious, very measured. No showbiz. Hits all the right notes. Also relatively brief and to the point..." Sounds like a positive.

Posted by: Mallfly at September 07, 2013 08:32 AM (bJm7W)

25 Conservative-ish is someone who wants other people to supply the smallpox blankets to the aborigines.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 07, 2013 08:33 AM (9unm6)

26 The lefties hate his guts.

Posted by: Aulus Papirius Rufus at September 07, 2013 08:35 AM (NHMrq)

27 The lefties hate his guts.

Always a good sign...

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 07, 2013 08:35 AM (9MLX+)

Hello, can one of the cobs get me in touch with The Dude or whomever is running the gaming thread this weekend?

I'd like to write a feature that I think will appeal to gamers and non-gamers alike while still being on-topic.

Mods can contact me through the supplied email address and/or leave a message in this thread.

Thanks

Posted by: Gerbil Space Program at September 07, 2013 08:35 AM (4AGHH)

29 I'm starting to think America is 'doing it wrong'

Russia has the flat tax

Australia has bare tittehs out and proud at the beach

Canada is exploiting their mineral resources

MEXICO HAS VOTER ID FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

And the US has Obama

jeebus weepin crikey it's enough to make you wanna eat a bullet

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 07, 2013 08:36 AM (8sCoq)

30 It is nice to see the AGW hoax continuing to collapse. Sadly, Al Gore will still die a billionaire. One born every minute, as they say.

Posted by: eman at September 07, 2013 08:36 AM (AO9UG)

31 Fair dinkum, mate!

But let's be honest here.. Any country that would allow the confiscation of all their firearms has already turned into a bunch of pussies. I wouldn't go all crazy and shit about how "conservative" they are.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 07, 2013 08:36 AM (AYOav)

32 Thank you Purp! This great news.

Posted by: tasker at September 07, 2013 08:37 AM (r2PLg)

33 Obama will pass.

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2013 08:37 AM (9XBK2)

34
Aussie girls go topless at the beach

just sayin '

Largest importer of American sperm? Australia.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at September 07, 2013 08:37 AM (0IhFx)

35 25 -

I was under the impression the Croat immigrants were bigger headaches these days than the native peeps.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 07, 2013 08:38 AM (BeSEI)

36 And there's Angus, my favorite Aussie Why can't we have their 52% instead of ours? Can we just do this the easy way and make a trade?

Posted by: L, elle at September 07, 2013 08:38 AM (0PiQ4)

37 33 Obama will pass. Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2013 12:37 PM (9XBK2) Eventually all turds do.

Posted by: eman at September 07, 2013 08:38 AM (AO9UG)

38 But let's be honest here.. Any country that would allow the confiscation of all their firearms has already turned into a bunch of pussies. I wouldn't go all crazy and shit about how "conservative" they are.

The combination of gun ownership and vegemite is too volatile for any population to handle. It had to be one or the other.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 07, 2013 08:38 AM (9unm6)

39 31 They even banned toys.No shit.

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2013 08:39 AM (9XBK2)

40 37 Yep,even if it takes an enema.

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2013 08:39 AM (9XBK2)

41
The move, which will affect all IBM retirees once they become eligible for Medicare, will relieve the technology company of the responsibility of managing retirement health-care benefits. IBM said the growing cost of care makes its current plan unsustainable without big premium increases.
Posted by: Thomas Edison
................
Well, it's pure stupid for any retirement plan to provide full healthcare benefits after Medicare age. That's one of the big perqs public union retireees receive. It's just stupid. Pay for a supplemental if you want to be generous.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 07, 2013 08:39 AM (AYOav)

42 It's even worse than that. Because Weiner had to double fail before people stopped taking him seriously.

Posted by: blaster at September 07, 2013 12:24 PM (5Xlg3)

-- But it was New York

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at September 07, 2013 08:40 AM (R8hU8)

43 31 Fair dinkum, mate! But let's be honest here.. Any country that would allow the confiscation of all their firearms has already turned into a bunch of pussies. I wouldn't go all crazy and shit about how "conservative" they are. Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 07, 2013 12:36 PM (AYOav) ********** Eh, bull shit. Aussie military are bad asses. Always have been go read up on them in some military history books. And last time we had them with us.... Dan it-- Obama didn't even get the Aussies or Canadians to support his action with anything other than money and pom poms. The Canadians, the Aussies and the Brits have always been our best allies--and they are not there. Funny how the media doesn't highlight that.

Posted by: tasker at September 07, 2013 08:42 AM (r2PLg)

44 A step back from the abyss. 52% is about as good as you can get in a multi-cultural western democracy with female suffrage.

Posted by: Beef at September 07, 2013 08:42 AM (XERws)

45 It just kills me that this country could be-IS- so great- and could be greater still, ...

I can't complete the thought. So disillusioned. feel betrayed.

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 07, 2013 08:43 AM (8sCoq)

46 Got a few leftard Aussie friends. Been enjoying the gnashing of teeth and whinefest. I wish it was a whole big chorus of American leftards doing that, but I'll take my guilty pleasures where I can.

Posted by: bigpinkfluffybunny at September 07, 2013 08:44 AM (aqORt)

47 The Canadians, the Aussies and the Brits have always been our best allies--and they are not there.

Funny how the media doesn't highlight that.

That would be anti-black.

Posted by: Ed Assner at September 07, 2013 08:44 AM (9unm6)

48 The Aussies aren't puusies but they did allow themselves to be disarmed.I guess it's the Brit heritage.

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2013 08:45 AM (9XBK2)

49 I enjoy it when the left loses anywhere in the world.

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2013 08:46 AM (9XBK2)

50 Other people's money and good will is running out. That's why the Left is starting to lose and is getting more and more shrill.

Posted by: eman at September 07, 2013 08:46 AM (AO9UG)

51 47 The Canadians, the Aussies and the Brits have always been our best allies--and they are not there. Funny how the media doesn't highlight that. That would be anti-black. Posted by: Ed Assner at September 07, 2013 12:44 PM (9unm6) *************** LOL! Oh ya I saw that crap--jeezuz.

Posted by: tasker at September 07, 2013 08:47 AM (r2PLg)

52 Why can't we have their 52% instead of ours? Can we just do this the easy way and make a trade? Posted by: L, elle
---------------------

Sigh. It just doesn't seem to work that way.

I longed to trade Jimmy Carter for Moshe Dayan, but the Israelis wouldn't take the deal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 07, 2013 08:49 AM (aDwsi)

53 fuckin obama's not black

i've been outdoors riding the mc all summer and I'm now darker than that jug-eared fuckstick

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 07, 2013 08:49 AM (8sCoq)

54 Oh ya I saw that crap--jeezuz.

The fucking idiot Left. And we're losing to these clowns.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 07, 2013 08:49 AM (9unm6)

55 Here's the problem -- Americans aren't nearly as willing to call abject failure what it is as Aussies are. We've come to embrace the fail, perhaps even celebrate it to a degree. It takes Weiner class fail before Americans start to blanch a bit. To wit, Charlie Crist is running for governor of Florida again.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 07, 2013 08:49 AM (xSegX)

18 well,isn't everybody cool a Democrat?

why yes!

Posted by: navycopjoe at September 07, 2013 08:51 AM (1MCcX)

57 The thing about disarming though, you have to start with the belief that there was something important about the way THIS country was founded, and the belief in an armed citizenry being a well-ingrained principle, enshrined in the Constitution. Without that, we would have been disarmed by now too.

Why?

Because political "logic" goes that way. People notice a problem (i.e. people getting shot and killed), politicians go the route of pandering to the most emotionally hostile, vocally rabid interest groups, and before rational people can stop them, we're living with a disarmed citizenry.

If the Aussies and the Brits could not stop that process, it's because they lacked our founding principles, and our Constitutional protection. And all we've done so far anyway, is slow down the process. We haven't exactly stopped them.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 07, 2013 08:52 AM (BeSEI)

58 Hillary! is the coolest!

Posted by: Mallfly at September 07, 2013 08:52 AM (bJm7W)

59 56 Sarah Palin though.Sarah Palin in a tank top and yoga pants.

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2013 08:53 AM (9XBK2)

60 59 doing jumping jacks

Posted by: navycopjoe at September 07, 2013 08:54 AM (1MCcX)

61 50 Other people's money and good will is running out.

That's why the Left is starting to lose and is getting more and more shrill.
Posted by: eman at September 07, 2013 12:46 PM (AO9UG)
They won't go down without a fight. I bet it will be nasty.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 07, 2013 08:54 AM (74gkr)

62 57 Exactly.

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2013 08:55 AM (9XBK2)

63 60 No bra?She'd knock herself out.

Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2013 08:55 AM (9XBK2)

64 You probably didn't see this in the news: "4 shot at anti-violence vigil in North Carolin". Note that the 'vigil' was for a guy who was shot while he conducting a hold-up.http://www.kgw.com/news/4-shot-at-anti-violence-vigil-in-North-Carolina-222700651.html

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 07, 2013 08:57 AM (aDwsi)

@Purp,

I originally read "Wiener class" as "Weimar Class"

Sadly,

Still works.

Posted by: tsrblke at September 07, 2013 08:58 AM (GaqMa)

66 62 Be right back.

Posted by: exhelodrvr at September 07, 2013 08:58 AM (edmTQ)

67 But how will this effect Obama!? *sniffle*

Posted by: John "limp" Boehner at September 07, 2013 08:58 AM (AWmfW)

68 Still works. Posted by: tsrblke
----------
Or,
Whiner class

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 07, 2013 08:59 AM (aDwsi)

69 How does attacking Syria help Michelle's children?

Posted by: blaster at September 07, 2013 08:59 AM (5Xlg3)

70 Should have been 60 Be right back.

Posted by: exhelodrvr at September 07, 2013 08:59 AM (edmTQ)

You probably didn't see this in the news: "4 shot at anti-violence vigil in North Carolin". Note that the 'vigil' was for a guy who was shot while he conducting a hold-up.

That is actually pretty funny. In a twisted, Alice in Wonderland, Mad Max, liberalism run amok kind of way.

Posted by: LGoPs at September 07, 2013 08:59 AM (PG5wD)

72 My uninformed take on the Australian election: The Australians had a notably successful Liberal (the conservatives) government under John Howard for almost a decade. His party finally lost government in 2007 over a combination of a contentious change in workplace regulations and general exhaustion. Labor under Rudd took over. His government dismantled Howard's very, very successful policy of picking up illegal migrants at sea and shipping them to camps on Nauru; now they were permitted into Australia and the trickle of boats turned into a flood. Rudd was popular with the public but widely hated within the party; Julia Gillard's palace coup knocked him off, but the subsequent 2010 election left Labor without a majority. She ended up leading a coalition government with the Greens and a couple nominal independents from some of the most conservative electorates in the country. Her government soon became a puppet of the Greens leader Bob Brown, and brought in policies such as a carbon tax that Gillard had quite specifically run against in the election. Anti-business policies and runaway spending turned a surplus into a deficit, and some very visible corruption problems ate even further into Gillard's credibility. With an election looming the Labor hierarchy booted Gillard and reinstalled Rudd, still mistrusting him but hoping his public popularity might drag them over the finish line. Labor and their captive media have long painted a picture of Liberal leader and PM-elect Abbott - Catholic, a fitness buff, marathoner, firefighter and surf-rescue volunteer - as an extremist, a cartoon-superhero wannabe - and tried to paint the Liberal rise in the polls as the nefarious work of Rupert Murdoch. In any case, the election's outcome gives Abbott a solid majority to work with, but so far it looks to have fallen ten seats short of the stomping some of the polls had predicted. Rudd will get credit for having 'saved the furniture' - several Labor party leaders whose seats were thought to be lost or in grave jeopardy have pulled out wins in their districts. The Greens, unfortunately, seem to have held their one lower-house seat (Melbourne, the San Francisco of Australia), but otherwise bled voters as badly or worse than Labor. Billionaire Clive Palmer - hero or buffoon depending on who you listen to - set up a personal party, stuffed with relatives and flunkies, and appears to have won his own election to the House and at least one Senate seat for his party (Australian electoral rules are weird as hell even for the lower house and I can't even begin to explain how Senate elections work). The reviled 'independents' who threw over the interests of their districts to prop up the crypto-Green Gillard government are gone.

Posted by: JEM at September 07, 2013 09:01 AM (o+SC1)

73 Obama will pass. Posted by: steevy at September 07, 2013 **** Waitress: Anything else this morning? Diner: I'll have another bowl of Bran Flakes. Guy on the left: Wow. That's your third serving. Diner: I really, really need to pass a bad meal.

Posted by: Beto at September 07, 2013 09:01 AM (MhA4j)

They can't experience "abject failure," because it's not about results for them; it's about the process. This is their religion. If they tax the rich, raise the minimum wage, promise more generous welfare benefits, give everyone "free" healthcare, decry the racism of white people (And by white people, they mean "all white people except me"), they have done their good works. They have succeeded, regardless of what the outcome is for the people of the country.

The only way they can see themselves failing is by giving up on their leftist policies. It's like any other religion - Stay true and faithful, and you can't fail.

Posted by: Ted K. at September 07, 2013 09:01 AM (VG4SW)

75 Sigh. 29 comments to get a crikey!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 07, 2013 09:02 AM (BAS5M)

76 >>>>Charlie Crist is running for governor of Florida again<<<<

Left, right, and center in FL, Charlie Cheetoh is a joke.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at September 07, 2013 09:03 AM (E3gqr)

77 64 You probably didn't see this in the news: "4 shot at anti-violence vigil in North Carolin". Note that the 'vigil' was for a guy who was shot while he conducting a hold-up.http://www.kgw.com/news/4-shot-at-anti-violence-vigil-in-North-Carolina-222700651.html
Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 07, 2013 12:57 PM (aDwsi)
SPLC hardest hit.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 07, 2013 09:03 AM (74gkr)

78 Not linking Tim Blair, Stalwart of Oceanic Conservatism? 40 lashes. http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/

Posted by: 13times at September 07, 2013 09:05 AM (fGPLK)

79 Remeber back when today's newsstories could only be found in dystopian novels and short stories? It's a madhouse. A madhouse!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 07, 2013 09:06 AM (BAS5M)

80 The reason that the Charlotte item about the vigil isn't news, is that the perps were black. Now..., had the perps been whites, banner headlines.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 07, 2013 09:06 AM (aDwsi)

"4 shot at anti-violence vigil in North Carolin". Note that the 'vigil' was for a guy who was shot while he conducting a hold-up.

The perp's name was Javon. I love it. No doubt he was an honor student as well.

Posted by: LGoPs at September 07, 2013 09:07 AM (PG5wD)

82 64 -

Wow, they sure do dance around providing too many details, don't they?

Let's see, start with an "anti-violence" vigil for a guy who was shot trying to rob a convenience store. How about an anti-robbing convenience store vigil instead?

Then move on to the decidedly silent discussion of the races of the various victims and perps. I want skin colors listed. The convenience store clerk, the guy he shot, the people holding the vigil, and the drive-by shooters.

Then we need gang affiliations to be spelled out. This is a gang style move. Wait for the one gang to all be gathered in one place (like a funeral or an anti-violence vigil), then the rival gang shows up and starts shooting.

Or we could pretend the "bad guy" in all of this is the guns themselves.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 07, 2013 09:07 AM (BeSEI)

83 I am simply amazed at the Dems and press (BIRM) saying that not supporting the President hurts the US in the world. The audacity of audacity. That is Obama's political innovation.

Posted by: blaster at September 07, 2013 09:07 AM (5Xlg3)

84 The more a country embraces the ideals of freedom, as the Anglosphere and America especially have, the greater the need of the Left to destroy and replace, rather than slowly mutate over time. In many countries, it is not necessary to overthrow the culture, but cause the culture can easily be brought into the fold of the Left. In the Anglo-sphere it takes the lobotomization of the country and culture. In the United States, it will take cultural euthanasia. But hey, at least the lobotomies are covered under ObamacareÂ…

Posted by: The Political Hat at September 07, 2013 09:09 AM (Vk2pI)

85 Or we could pretend the "bad guy" in all of this is the guns themselves.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 07, 2013 01:07 PM (BeSEI)

-- Don't forget Whitey!

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at September 07, 2013 09:09 AM (R8hU8)

86 jeebus weepin crikey it's enough to make you wanna eat a bullet Posted by: Jones in CO at September 07, 2013 12:36 PM (8sCoq) I'd prefer feed said bullet to someone who deserves it...forcefully if necessary.

Posted by: model_1066 at September 07, 2013 09:10 AM (QMWjL)

87 Another polar bear hunting attack in NY, leaves 62 year old white guy brain dead: --- [Jeffrey] Babbitt [62 yrs old] was minding his own business as he walked through the crowd near the chess boards in Union Square when a man made a hateful announcement and began his rampage, witnesses said. Â“He said Â‘the next white person who walks by IÂ’m going to [expletive],Â’Â” one woman said. Â“His fist went in and the manÂ’s head bobbed and he hit the ground and you could hear his skull hitting the ground.Â” - See more at: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/#sthash.NrhEHuCd.dpuf

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 07, 2013 09:10 AM (ZPrif)

88 No comment, from Jesse, Sharpton, or Obama.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 07, 2013 09:11 AM (ZPrif)

89 In the United States, it will take cultural euthanasia. But hey, at least the lobotomies are covered under ObamacareÂ… Posted by: The Political Hat at September 07, 2013 01:09 PM (Vk2pI) Public schools are taking care of the cultural euthanasia...lobotomies will be mandatory for the home schooled kids - to level the playing field.

Posted by: model_1066 at September 07, 2013 09:13 AM (QMWjL)

90 I've gotten the Weiner from government agencies many times.

Posted by: Lucky Pierre at September 07, 2013 09:15 AM (5fSr7)

91 87 Another polar bear hunting attack in NY, leaves 62 year old white guy brain dead: Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 07, 2013 01:10 PM (ZPrif)
The word is out that we are not to mention race because that would make us as bad as the other side.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 07, 2013 09:17 AM (74gkr)

92 85 -

That's why I want skin colors listed. If the convenience store clerk turns out to be white (or at least not black), that would be the perfect ribbon with which to tie a perfect bow on this perfect little story.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 07, 2013 09:17 AM (BeSEI)

93 Australia now has two things going for them, adding "having a conservative government" to their already impressive status as "place Yvonne Strahovski is from".

Posted by: Big T Party at September 07, 2013 09:19 AM (YVWNt)

94 What a scary thought, someone actually ran on cutting the government intrusion into private life, and won big. Pass it on.....

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 07, 2013 09:20 AM (/i3Yt)

95 Posted by: JEM at September 07, 2013 01:01 PM (o+SC1) Thanks very much. You sound very well informed and I appreciate your take on it..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2013 09:22 AM (DjFMZ)

The audacity of audacity.

That is Obama's political innovation.

-----

I don't know, Clinton was pretty good at it.

Posted by: Beef at September 07, 2013 09:24 AM (XERws)

97 I'm guessing that Kaboom was not a big seller in Australia.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 07, 2013 09:26 AM (/i3Yt)

98 94 What a scary thought, someone actually ran on cutting the government intrusion into private life, and won big. Pass it on.....

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 07, 2013 01:20 PM (/i3Yt)

We're trying to contain this outbreak .

Posted by: MSM at September 07, 2013 09:27 AM (AWmfW)

99 If you want good service, don't tolerate bad service.

OH, now you sound like Romney...that you love to fire people.

Posted by: Paladin at September 07, 2013 09:28 AM (Sx7Kg)

100

Ellow mayts! Oi've a li'ewl news faw ya. Choina is throwin' some shrimp on the barbie...
http://tinyurl.com/lbkjfld

Posted by: Crocodile Dundee at September 07, 2013 09:28 AM (POUrM)

101 I love Australia. Can't hate a country that brought us this: http://wickedweasel.com/en-us

Posted by: EC at September 07, 2013 09:28 AM (doBIb)

102 Do they really say "throw some shrimp on the barbie" down there?

Posted by: Albie Damned at September 07, 2013 09:29 AM (Yhu4q)

103 The word is out that we are not to mention race because that would make us as bad as the other side. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at September 07, 2013 01:17 PM (74gkr) Of course the libtards won't say anything about the Pres because he is black and it is racist, the mental gymnastics they perform is Olympic worthy.

Posted by: Madamex at September 07, 2013 09:29 AM (islXR)

104 So does this mean that Pixy Misa will be too drunk to fix a possible broke blog for a few days/

Posted by: Albie Damned at September 07, 2013 09:32 AM (Yhu4q)

105 Well, it had to start somewhere.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at September 07, 2013 09:36 AM (4p5/2)

106 Recall that Murdoch fanned the Port Arthur flames as diligently as he did with Dunblane, as he tried to do after Sandy Hook. Also as Robin has pointed out, Australia was one of the testing sites, for the leftwing Common Core
curriculum, focusing on the Indigenous question,

Posted by: Jeffrey Pelt at September 07, 2013 09:37 AM (Jsiw/)

107 Naw, we say "Shrimpin' with Barbie" on those lonely hawt noights down undah.

Posted by: Crocodile Dundee at September 07, 2013 09:38 AM (POUrM)

108 >>Posted by: EC at September 07, 2013 01:28 PM (doBIb)

Thank yew for that, but I think that one "chick" in the slideshow is a dude

Posted by: Albie Damned at September 07, 2013 09:39 AM (Yhu4q)

109 White people are racist because they won't let a black man bomb brown people.

Posted by: Ed Asner at September 07, 2013 09:40 AM (/IROz)

110 Middle Earth will eliminate the Carbon Tax.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2013 09:41 AM (0axsw)

111 I think Australia is a particularly sad case. It went from a country that seemed to represent the essence of freedom - individuality, risk-taking, the struggle against nature, a good-natured cynicism - and in just a couple of generations turned into a disarmed, politically correct, multi-culti nanny state hell.

I've always loved the idea of Australia so it breaks my heart to read when they prosecute a conservative writer for hate speech, pass a law preventing more than 1 child from blowing out birthday candles, give extra-special rights to native people and all the other assorted progressive bullshit.

I buy/watch a lot of Australian TV, or rather, I used to until the social justice drumbeat got almost too strong to bear. So, like us, their media is responsible for most of this. They just seem to be on a much faster trajectory than us.

Posted by: jeannebodine at September 07, 2013 09:41 AM (KLWgj)

112 A pre-school teacher in California played a "tongue touching" game with a student. http://tinyurl.com/m3eftv6 Note that the "investigation" didn't involve the police and the union somehow is keeping the perp's name out of the paper, even after a social services "finding" that it happened.

Posted by: MTF at September 07, 2013 09:42 AM (qf2kI)

113 69 How does attacking Syria help Michelle's children?

Posted by: blaster at September 07, 2013 12:59 PM (5Xlg3)

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They will eat less so there is that...

Posted by: Molly k. at September 07, 2013 09:44 AM (sVKy/)

114 Ed Asner never was funny and he's nothing but a poo stain communist.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 07, 2013 09:44 AM (zEeUf)

115 Great post with lots of good places to find source material on NSA from John Schindler over at XX Committee today: http://bit.ly/17Nm57l

Link to my blog's post about it "you know where".

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at September 07, 2013 09:46 AM (4p5/2)

116 Thank yew for that, but I think that one "chick" in the slideshow is a dude Definitely a butterface. Check out "katya" this week. She's got her own blog called Two Clovers and is quite exceptional.

Posted by: EC at September 07, 2013 09:46 AM (doBIb)

117 I support teaching French in schools! Oh, Frenching? Never mind.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 07, 2013 09:48 AM (ZshNr)

118 Kerry is speaking French with some frog.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2013 09:50 AM (0axsw)

119 In the sidebar story about Ed Asner's asininity, the fucking imbecile Mike Farrell of M*A*S*H fame is quoted as saying that Obama is "flaunting the law".

What an I*D*I*O*T.

Part of the storyline of Farrell's character B.J. Honeycunt was he refused to tell what those initials stood for because that would allow him to keep a little part of himself to himself.

Oh, I think I know what they stood for. Why do you think Klinger was smiling all the time?

Posted by: Albie Damned at September 07, 2013 09:52 AM (Yhu4q)

120 Been giving his some thought, watching "Game of Thrones". Here at my folks place in PHX, so I'm watching thru Amazon, season 1.

It's the Ruling Class that's the problem. In this country we are center-right, as Limbaugh says; but the Ruling Class is Left & Hard Left. It's what they think needs to happen to keep the peons in check. Wasn't it William Penn, that said the population needed to be educated just enough to be ruled. Or something like that. We've had upward mobility thru capitalism. Which pisses-off the aristocracy. During the middle ages, didn't the merchant class get wealthier than the Nobles? So the Nobles pass laws that only Nobles could wear purple, i.e. royalty. Now, the middle-east is getting educated peasants, but no economy for them to better them selves. Much like the Banana Republics of South America in the past. For the most part people want to work, and benefit from it. Sure there are some that want to be house cats, and be taken care of. Not trying to start a dog vs. cat flame war. But dogs want to be watch-dogs, protect, have a job for their food. The Ruling Class of both parties want every thing to say as it is, THEM in charge. Bread and Circuses, as long as we call the shots. So, go for the LIV & FSA, to buy their love with there own money. Always goo business to do what you want with somebody else money. It's the lower classes that are becoming educated that spark Revolution.

Posted by: Paladin at September 07, 2013 09:55 AM (Sx7Kg)

121 Has Agarn from F-Troop weighed in yet?

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 07, 2013 09:56 AM (ZshNr)

122 The only actor I respected from MASH was The guy who played Maj. Burns.

Posted by: EC at September 07, 2013 09:56 AM (doBIb)

123 Him and Trapper.

Posted by: EC at September 07, 2013 09:59 AM (doBIb)

124 >>122 The only actor I respected from MASH was The guy who played Maj. Burns.

Wayne Rogers didn't turn out half bad

Posted by: Albie Damned at September 07, 2013 09:59 AM (Yhu4q)

125 Larry Linville

Posted by: EC at September 07, 2013 10:01 AM (doBIb)

126 LIV?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 07, 2013 10:02 AM (0axsw)

127 Low info voter.

Posted by: EC at September 07, 2013 10:04 AM (doBIb)

128 They call them prawns, not shrimp.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at September 07, 2013 10:18 AM (wYUsI)

129 When I got down there, the first thing I did when I checked in was flush my toilet. That was pretty bad ass. Then I ordered 2 shrimp cocktails a bottle of champagne and some orange juice. The prawns came with heads. Interesting morning.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at September 07, 2013 10:30 AM (4p5/2)

130 Aussie girls go topless at the beach

just sayin '

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 07, 2013 12:30 PM (8sCoq)

And yet, people have a problem with that. *sigh*

Posted by: KG at September 07, 2013 10:34 AM (IPz9m)

131 130 Aussie girls go topless at the beach just sayin ' Posted by: Jones in CO at September 07, 2013 12:30 PM (8sCoq) And yet, people have a problem with that. *sigh* I remember reading about some incident at one of the beaches where some youths of indeterminate ethnic origin caused a lot of trouble for the beachgoers. They fucking ruin things for everyone wherever they are.

Posted by: EC at September 07, 2013 10:38 AM (doBIb)

132 Who knew that the song "back in black" was about getting out of debt?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 07, 2013 11:04 AM (fvV0D)

133

The UK is trending conservative these days, and trying to shed layers of socialism.

Canada is under conservative leadership, and their economy is getting better each month.

Now, Australia is figuring out what's causing that headache.

This is encouraging...

Even though the media here will try to ignore this for as long as they can...we have to keep the fires lit and keep pointing out that socialism only creates decay and despair.

Posted by: wheatie at September 07, 2013 12:45 PM (Hy+VQ)

134 #31 - not ALL our firearms, you conspiracist dolt. There are a hell of a lot of bolt and lever action rifles and double-barrelled shotguns out there which will kill you just as dead as an AR-15, and heaps of pistols as well, believe it or not. And the commercial feral pest cullers still get to own semi-autos for their work if they wish.

It's not as bad as some people think. It could be a whole lot better, true, but it's not even as bad as some parts of the US right now.

#133 - We'd figured it out three years ago, but the Other Side back then told the mother of all lies that got them across the line, and then two turncoats stabbed their electorates in the back to deliver a minority government to the bunch of criminally incompetent slimeballs we've just finished voting out.

And by the way, by no means ALL Aussie beaches are topless. Do be careful about where you disrobe, ladies. Guys, think with your minds and not your dicks before you emigrate. :p

Posted by: perturbed at September 07, 2013 01:56 PM (+ylC5)

135 @133 - it's difficult to consider what passes for government in the UK as 'trending conservative'. There's a bit of fitful fiscal-con in Osborne, but for the rest Dave has been letting the LibDems run the place into the ground.

Posted by: JEM at September 07, 2013 01:57 PM (o+SC1)

136 The reviled 'independents' who threw over the interests of their districts to prop up the crypto-Green Gillard government are gone.

Walked of their own accord before being turned out on their arses (as they well deserved to be).

Otherwise, and apart from the fact that Howard's government lasted ELEVEN years rather than the not-quite-ten specified, Poster #72 has summed it up pretty well. I might (as an Australian) take issue with a few of his/her interpretations, but these are differences of opinion that IMO fall within the scope of reasonable doubt.

Posted by: perturbed at September 07, 2013 02:04 PM (+ylC5)

137 I'm sure this new conservative coalition does not please everyone, but dispatching Labor is a hell of a good first step.

Conservatives in the US need to figure out what parts of their message sell and set aside some of the more polarizing shit. Get rid of the Socon nonsense that only sells in the Old South (and not even there anymore) and find a new playbook.

The perfect is the enemy of the good, and I would be really pleased with just how good Abbot is.

Too bad we can't have a figure like him in the US.

Posted by: Jeepers at September 07, 2013 04:43 PM (XDRsa)

138 Not a perfect result, but good riddance to the leaden Kevin Rudd and Labor's tainted alliance with the Greens.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 07, 2013 05:35 PM (2yngH)

139

"Here's the problem -- Americans aren't nearly as willing to call abject failure what it is as Aussies are. We've come to embrace the fail, perhaps even celebrate it to a degree. It takes Weiner class fail before Americans start to blanch a bit."

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I do not think this is true. Okay let me rephrase that. Americans have not been exposed to critical thinking and analysis of the reasons for abject failure of liberal policies. When Detroit is in the news for its failures only Fox News has any commentary of why it failed. Every other channel ignores it or presents a defense of Detroit's failures. If Republicans point out the failure they are called racists and this seems to work. A great many otherwise sensible people in California have zero idea of what is actually causing all the problems. I have had to explain Barney style to people: These are California's policies and these are the effects. Then the light comes on but one at a time is not as effective as advocates being on the news. In San Diego there is some guy that looks like a Mexican Fred Flintstone, I see this dude at least once a quarter on the news pimping amnesty. The right side of the political spectrum needs to get busier in this aspect. If most Americans of good conscious and sound mind do not know why things fail then that is the Right's fault.

Posted by: theworldisnotenough at September 08, 2013 07:08 AM (R09Xy)

140 ** I'm sure this new conservative coalition does not please everyone, but dispatching Labor is a hell of a good first step. ** Oh, it doesn't - not by any means. There are some who would gaze askance on Ayn Rand as a little too leftist-Nannystatist for their liking who will never be satisfied, but the best is the enemy of the good enough, and we have the good enough right now - including the promise of a number of small players in our new Senate who, if they can be bargained with at not too great a price, will make our Labor and Greens parties utterly irrelevant for at least the next six years.

Posted by: perturbed at September 09, 2013 11:30 AM (u6Ueb)

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