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.

Phillip Adams in a quandary

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Poor Phillip Adams – doesn’t like Julia, doesn’t like Tony, doesn’t like the ALP (He’s resigned) and his hatred of Abbott is so palpable he tries this line;
The lack of enthusiasm for a Mad Monk regime is palpable in public opinion and the polls. People would prefer root canal work without anaesthesia to having him in the Lodge. They’d prefer to be making a different choice – between Rudd and Turnbull. And, in all too rare an example of bipartisan accord, so would Rudd and Turnbull.
You should check the polls before writing such swill, Phillip. Turnbull is only preferred by the ALP and/or Climate Change worshipers and Rudd has had his day – and stuffed that big time. Abbott improves every day and is turning into a potential PM while he systematically tears the ALP apart. Good to see the old fool Adams not getting his way – good for the country and anything that troubles the old commo is fine by me.
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Thompson cleared but not really

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So the NSW police find Thompson has no case to answer on fraud allegations. I would say there is no case of fraud simply because the HSU Union doesn’t have hard and fast rules on the use of members monies. Ie, this sort of shit has being going on for years and unions think it’s OK. If the police had found any evidence that someone else had forged his signature and produced his drivers licence as proof of ID then that person would be subject to fraud charges. So that that makes Thompson guilty. Not of any crime but of being a low-life who, while in a position of trust, used members hard earned money for sexual gratification and then publicly denied it. The Coalition has vowed to continue their pursuit of Thompson and so they should.
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A rewrite of history

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Lyndsay Murdock needs some history lessons. Talking about Julia Gillard’s gaffe about General Vo Nguyen Giap’s death he finds the General alive in Hanoi. Giap could be forgiven for commenting that “the rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated” (refer: Mark Twain) Lyndsay goes on to comment;
Two decades later his poorly equipped North Vietnamese army and Vietcong guerillas defeated the US and its allies, forcing them out of the former South Vietnam.
Look up Paris Peace Accords Lyndsay. In 1973, a couple of decades later, all players decided to call it quits and go home and North Vietnam promised they would not initiate military movement across the DMZ and that there would be no use of force to reunify the country. This is communist talk for “We need to rearm” They had been defeated in battle in Vietnam thus forcing them to the Peace table in the first place and they needed this time to rebuild. Two years later, in 1975, Lyndsay’s “poorly equipped North Vietnamese army” now richly equipped with new tanks, artillery, new AK47s, RPD MGs and AA batteries by the USSR and China invaded South Vietnam and defeated them. They attacked in WW2-like waves and the US, with Gerald Ford in the White House trying to send aid to South Vietnam, being thwarted by a Democrat majority in both houses, watched as South Vietnam folded and the night of the long knives began. Get it right or get out Lyndsay!
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Vietnam

HSU are panicking

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From Graham Richardson in the Oz
Then of course there is the Craig Thomson effect. This bloke is damaging the Labor brand every day he hangs around the parliament like a bad smell in a lift. Gillard is not responsible for this either but what a dilemma she has. Dump him and lose government or cling on to him to maintain the parliamentary numbers and watch the slide in the polls continue. Thomson is the suicide bomber’s vest, wrapped tightly around the Prime Minister and the Labor Party. It cannot be defused and at some stage it is destined to explode. Police investigations will take a while. Then, if a decision is made to charge him with a criminal offence, Thomson will be lost in the justice system for a couple of years.
The Health Services Union are infighting.The need to be very careful here as there exists the real possibility that this case will bring down a government. Their actions will be gone over with a fine tooth comb by all the ALP luvvies from now and forever as in Whitlam’s “Maintain the Rage. When in doubt be honest and Good luck!
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Mike Kelly – soldier extraordinaire…….not

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Besides running this site I’m also Webmaster for my regimental site and this morning I had occasion to post a letter from Neil Weekes, AM, MC, to Dr. Mike Kelly,AM, ALP Mp for Eden Monaro. I have written on this turkey before and to get a feel for the man and what we ex-military think of him, and conversely, what he thinks of us, you should read both posts. He is on record as saying …..”my career in many war zones came at great threat to my life in countless situations…..I was forced to fight with my rifle in every way it is possible to use it, including butt stroke and bayonet….” Considering he was, in my memory, a military lawyer, I thought this a bit rich. The article quotes the Australian War Memorial, as stating the last bayonet charge by Australian forces was carried out in Vietnam by 5 Platoon 6RAR during Operation Bribie on February 17, 1967. According to Wikipaedia however, a later bayonet attack by Australians was conducted in May 1968 at the Battle of Coral when a then Lieutenant Neil Weekes ordered his men to fix bayonets.
Even with the artillery and mortars concentrating on close defensive fire tasks, the assault was largely held at the perimeter, although they did succeed in over-running part of 3 Platoon, A Company. Commanded by Lieutenant Neil Weekes, the platoon had been hit heavily by indirect fire during the initial bombardment and had suffered several casualties. Concentrating on the gap created in the Australian perimeter, the North Vietnamese then assaulted with the support of 12.7 mm DShK heavy machine-guns. Ordering his men to fix bayonets, Weekes successfully reorganised the defences however, and called in close mortar fire to stabilise the position, resulting in heavy casualties among the assaulting force. He was later awarded the Military Cross for his leadership.[78][80]
Link – look under Second attack on FSB Coral, 16 May 1968 Nice bit of symmetry there, don’t you think? One wonders if Kelly knows of Neil’s history and if he does, does he cringe when he thinks of what he himself has claimed to have done. I doubt it. In this article in the Townsville Bulletin he denies saying he was involved in a bayonet attack but “butt stroke and bayonet” clearly suggests to Infantrymen that he is claiming he was. Another article in the Canberra Times entitled “Somalia to Eden-Monaro: How Mike Kelly fought a murderous warlord all the way to a firing squad’ only refers to Kelly being involved in the legalities of having a warlord executed. The article is, however, short on details of “butt stroking and bayoneting” unless that’s how the warlord was disposed. Seems more like a puff piece by the Canberra Times aimed at getting Kelly elected. He claims to be one of us yet deserts us when we need him – typical ALP. Bastard!
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Defence, Politics

Implausible Thompson

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Tony Abbott raises a fair point;
“I think it’s very hard for someone who can’t answer questions about his own credit card to credibly ask questions of the Governor of the Reserve Bank about the nation’s credit card.”
Do the ALP really believe that the public are happy with Thompson’s denials – surely not! On the face of it, the NSW and/or the Federal ALP coughed up a six figure sum to prevent Thompson being declared bankrupt which would force him vacate his position as the member for Dobel and thus bring on a bi- election that the ALP would surely loose. I can only imagine that Julia would do anything to prevent that happening including standing in front of the people and saying “He’s doing a good job” What a hide that woman has. It appears he is also involved in procuring the services of prostitutes using his Union credit card and in the face of overwhelming evidence makes barefaced denials. How can anyone think he is a worthy representative for his electorate? the ALP will be busy scurrying around briefing a battalion of lawyers with a view to stalling the legal process until the public are distracted by another huge ALP stuff-up. I just hope it doesn’t work. If we have a lying criminal stealing from his employer masquerading as a respectable politician then we need to know and if it is the case then he needs to go. UPDATE: Today’s revelations on the matter courtsey Andrew Bolt UPDATE 11: And more from Tim Blair
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Indigenous issues

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Filthy…unwashed…alcoholics… A couple from Melbourne being confronted with Aborigines for the first time. Camped at Kununarra I can’t really disagree other than to say I have come across some who aren’t like that. They are shocked and obviously haven’t been out of their suburban comfort zone before now. They aren’t racists either, just describing what they have seen. They tell me their friends are totally unaware of the real circumstances that exist in the North and I could only suggest they go back and tell their friends the truth. If you go to South Headland don’t expect to sit down in the shopping centre. The seats are full all day with aborigines waiting…talking …yelling out at each other. You can get a seat for the days after “Payday” however, as they have money for grog and are in the pubs or long grass. They really do call it Payday as if they have done something to earn the money the government gives them. Its the seamy side but it is what the foreign and southern tourists are witnessing. We all know there are success stories but you have to root them out. If you camp at the Crossing Inn at Fitzroy Crossing don’t go to the bar if you are white and civilized as you will be very lonely. The bar is full of aborigines all day and into the night. Fights, spitting and yelling very loudly is all the go on the banks of the Fitzroy River. I traveled along the road from Windjana Gorge to Fitzroy River and experience two tyres slashed by the rough road, all in about 20 minutes. I was looking at the tyre after the second flat trying to get on top mentally when a vehicle stopped. Malcom, big, black and friendly took one look at the situation and me and said “I’ll fix it” He wielded the tyre plug kit like the pro he was – “done hundreds mate!” He comments further “Funny really – you white guys invented cars and us black fellow fix ’em” We all laughed -I let him have his moment and thanked him profusely. He was the deputy manager at Leopold Downs and a very likable man with his two year old daughter in tow who he obviously loved and looked after. Any amount of aborigines have helped or joined in conversations but they are in a minority and their less able brothers and sisters tar them all with the same brush. Sad really.
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General Musings

Senate inquiry into ruining an industry

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I can’t imagine anything more stupid than ruining an entire industry based on a TV programme unless it is doing same based on a TV programme where ativists pay someone to act in such a manner as to cause distress to sensitive viewers thus forcing the government to make a stupid decision. From Christopher Pearson;
I saw Liberal senator Chris Back, a vet with years of professional experience dealing with cruelty to animals, talking on Sky News about the abattoir footage, and he was pretty convincing. He said he’d studied it carefully and that there was an element in it that didn’t quite ring true, something formulaic and gratuitous about the violence.
Am I prepared to believe that animal activists would pay someone to mistreat animals so as to enhance their vegan based closing down of the meat industry? Damn right I am! Pearson again;
It’s strange to contemplate the possibility that Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig may have made a career-ending blunder on the strength of televised displays of cruelty, which may in turn all have been choreographed by a local activist and-or an over-helpful driver keen to get the customers the footage they were looking for.
and this;
Some $100 million has been spent on turning thriving farms and businesses into pools of welfare dependency. At least 320 jobs, including many jobs for Aboriginal stockmen, have been lost, probably permanently.
Joe Ludwig’s closing down of the live meat export trade has to rate as his best “unintended circumstances” debacle yet. Did he think any of it through or do the ALP hate farmers that much that anything that cripples them is good? I can only hope that there is something in this article and that Ludwig, the ALP and the insane animal activists get burnt real bad. Hundreds of millions of dollars lost; cattle properties bankrupted and hundreds of jobs gone forever. Good one ALP
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There, there now….

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Hater of everything conservative, Marylin Sheppard is having a very bad day
Australia, I hate your guts. I suspect as well that tourists, students and migrants will be averse to a country that tortures innocent people in this manner and I hope the entire place collapses in a deep, dark depression brought on by a lazy, racist moron
I feel her pain and the feeling is exquisite. I am beside myself with pleasure that this prime idiot is upset.
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