Hackworth is dead
David Hackworth, soldier, critic and author has died
Author: Kev
Retired infantry officer. Conservative by nature and politics; Happily married and father and grandfather of eight. Loves V8 powered Range Rovers, Golden Retrievers, good books and technology and think there should be open season on Greenies.
Born in the mid forties and overdue for servicing but most parts still work.
It’s a trifecta!
Blair has a reduced majority but a majority of 58 seats is still a majority. Of the 646 seats in the British parliament, 552 have gone to parties who supported the Iraq war and 62 have gone to those who opposed it.
Not that the MSM will put it that way. Most are concentrating on his loss of seats.
Paul Reynolds at the BBC says;
The clipping of Tony Blair’s wings by a British electorate angry over Iraq probably means that the highly activist and interventionist foreign policy which marked his first two terms will be diminished.Maybe, but the job in Iraq isn’t finished. Everybody will take a different spin on the results from Blair had his nose bloodied to Historic third term win. Either way he is still in power. The three countries of the Anglosphere that are fighting for a democracy in Iraq have all had their governments returned, much to the chagrin of the Left and the relief of those who know that democracy is worth fighting for.
Fish beats up angler
In a variation of Dog Bites Man a fisherman in Queensland comes off second best in a fight with a fish. The fish beat him up and then escaped.
IN a fishy tale with a different ending, an Australian angler on Tuesday described how a five-foot mackerel jumped into his boat, knocked him down and injured him – and then got away.The one that got away
Victimless Crimes
If ever there was a victimless crime, this is it.
A female teacher has been sent to goal for 6 months for having sex with a student. Watching the student in an interview the other night left no doubt in my mind that he thought he was the cat’s pajamas.
She is attractive, he seems to be a well adjusted young man and will be the envy of all his classmates. Not only did he score but it was all over the media.
At that age many conversations among young men start with ‘I scored last night’, to be met with calls of Oh yeah…right…like no-way man.
His biggest problem must be keeping the ‘chessire cat’ smile off his face when he was discussing it with his mother who is quoted as saying;
… she was happy with the final outcome. “Justice has been done with this woman, and for other victims of sexual abuse, I feel for them as well.”On being sentenced, Karen Louise Ellis felt alone.
She was all alone, at the lowest point in her life, and no one – not her plumber husband Stephen, none of her three beloved children, nor the seventeen year old with whom she had an illegal sexual relationship – was there to comfort her.I wonder why.
British Elections
Blair looks like getting back in according to all the pundits but I note the Left are arguing he is going to looses seats due to his pro-Iraq war stance.
Like, ‘He is labour so we have to back him, but there has to be a loss in seats to prove we were right about Iraq and because he isn’t as far left as we would like’.
After Howard and Bush being returned with increased majorities the Left do need a bit of a morale booster. You watch, if just one seat changes hands then they will be beside themselves with the ‘evidence’ that the war was wrong. They will be salivating with pleasure if the seat fall to the Lib Dems.
If not they can always return to their “the votors are stupid” mantra.
The Liberal Democrats seem to be not unlike our Democrats at least with their soft, warm and fuzzy approach to everything, however they are polling at about 22% which, to me, reflects poorly on the future of Britain.
Tomorrow will be interesting
UPDATE: 10:30 AEST 6 May
Obviously to early to pick a trend but figures at BBC reveal;
After nine results out of 646, Labour is down 7.1%, the Conservatives are up 0.7% and the Liberal Democrats are up 4.73%.
Joh’s gone
He will be remembered by many. Don’t you worry about that.”
Noy much to be said about Joh that hasn’t already been said but my take on the whole affair is to remember, with pleasure, Joh sacking the ETU thugs that held the state to ransome over power supply. I also seem to recall his saying that if you don’t let the power back on I’ll release your names, addresses and telephone numbers to the press.
Young mothers and businesses going to the wall over union thuggery. Joh read the peoples feelings and reacted.
They folded, of course, as they knew Queenslanders were ready to slaughter them for their arrogance.
I’m glad they still feel the pain. Maintain the rage, fellows – nobody cares. Have a street march every May – it’ll always bring a smile to my face.
The Fall of Saigon
This letter in todays Australian serves to highlight another reason to recall the embarrassment of being an Australian when Whitlam was in power
Last days of Saigon still linger
04 May 2005
RODNEY Dalton’s article (“Pain lingers for deserted four – fall of Saigon: 30 Years On”, 30/4) recites, without comment, unfounded and hurtful criticisms of my late father, Geoffrey Price, the last Australian ambassador to South Vietnam. My father, as Australia’s ambassador, was obeying direct and specific instructions from the Australian government, which he had bitterly but unsuccessfully disputed over the preceding days, in not evacuating the Australian embassy’s 55 Vietnamese staff on the RAAF Hercules sent to evacuate the other few remaining Australian staff and him. He certainly was not loading the aircraft with his personal possessions or any pets during the scramble on that day. In an article The Australian ran on the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon in April, 2000, Stuart Rintoul reported my father’s enduring sense of shame at the way Australia abandoned all but one of its locally engaged Vietnamese embassy staff, together with many other Vietnamese at risk of being punished by the incoming North Vietnamese for their associations with Australia. I can confirm that my father’s shame at Australia’s petty betrayal of Vietnamese colleagues who had worked alongside him for many months did remain with him until the day he died. Christopher Price Bellevue Hill, NSWWhitlam wouldn’t have anything to do with ‘those f**king Vietnamese Balts’, as he put it at, least not with the ones from the South. Stuart Rintoul, of course would blame the military, or the Diplomatic Corps, or the Ambassador, or the…..well , anyway, anyone but Whitlam.
Lyndie’s going down
If ever there was a woman with ‘victim’ written all over her face, it is Private Lynndie England. From my reading of her life, the word was most probably endorsed on her birth certificate…if there was one.
Today’s Australian carries the story under the headline… Jail awaits the mistress of Abu Ghraib. Can anyone imagine a less likely ‘Mistress’ of anything, let alone a goal complex like Abu Ghraib.
And yet, here she is, looking down the barrel of 11 years in goal for…. umm….for being photographed standing, with a cigarette in her mouth, pointing at a man’s genitals….I think that’s what it’s all about.
I admit, the cigarette bit is worth a couple of years in today’s Nanny State society but, really what else has she done?
Humiliated and scared some people from a tribe that slits people’s throats for media supported recruiting clips for psychos to join the Jihad.
Just as well she’s not educated and a Lawyer in South Australia. She may have actually killed someone and got a $3,000 fine.
I’d hate to think she’s going down to still the braying of the anti-US media but it’s my bet that’s the case.
Iraqi Hostage Situation
Aljazeera has some balance coverage of the Aussie hostage in Iraq. They quote Howard as saying;
“We can’t have the foreign policy of this country dictated by terrorists.”
Tragic as it may seem, this is the only approach viable. It must make the family feel they are in a no-win situation but to take any other stance would only serve to turn the whole war in a twenty-hostages a day situation.
The Australian reports that Australia is setting up a Response Team and they will be deployed to Iraq, if they aren’t there already. There will be SASR comms and language experts as well as police and defence personnel
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the emergency response team, which left Sydney yesterday, would be led by former Solomon Islands regional assistance mission chief Nick Warner and would include federal and state police and defence personnel. It is also expected to include SAS communications and language specialists and will set up headquarters in the secure zone close to Baghdad airport.Linguists and comms specialists don’t have to be SASR unless there are other SASR teams on-board. I would suggest there is a snatch team going as well and if the Response Team get a fix on these guys then the days of the Shura Council of the Mujahedeen of Iraq are numbered… and the number is small. Sometime in the very near future, they can expect to hear a large noise and while they are recovering from that and muttering ‘what the hell…in arabic, they will feel the sting of 9mm bullets, double-tapped into each and everyone of them. God! I hope they locate them.
Al Grassby
Al Grassby’s dead and some want a memorial in Griffith to commemorate his contribution to multiculturalism. There are others in Griffith who remember his siding with the Mafia in the heated debates of yesteryear about the murder of Donald Bruce McKay, supposedly by the same Mafia and would just as soon have him buried in an unmarked grave under a ton of cement.
The story in Griffith, and I visit there regularly, is that McKay is buried under tons of cement at a construction site.
In the 1980s, Grassby claimed to have been given evidence that, in fact, Donald Mackay’s family were implicated in his death. The National Crime Authority investigated and stumbled upon Grassby’s alleged links to a notorious drug dealer and murderer, the late Robert Trimbole.As a result of his spurious claims about McKay’s death, Grassby was convicted of criminal defamation in 1991. Grassby’s wife remembers;
Grassby was nicknamed the “Ostrich” because of his naivety, in dress and character – he wore loud ties, dyed his hair black and flaunted a floridly grown moustache. As an example, Grassby’s wife once said he had found it difficult to believe homosexuals existed. “He could not understand how it could happen physically, so he thought it was somebody making up stories,” she said.Now there’s a man in touch with his electorate. In my opinion he was a fool and a peacock, had no intellect to speak of and did irrepairable damage to our society with the polarization effect of his multiculturism. Headstone only. Al Grassby, 1926~2005. Here lies another of Whitlam’s fools. UPDATE: This report in the Herald Sun says it all
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