Holy S**t
From Craig Wallace at Streams
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.
RIP Razz
During a patrol in southern Afghanistan last week, an SOTG vehicle was hit by an IED, wounding two soldiers. The wounds were assessed as slight.
A spokesman for Defence, Brigadier Andrew Nikolic said the wounded soldiers were provided with first-aid by their fellow soldiers and evacuated to a nearby ISAF hospital for further treatment.
“One of the two soldiers received specialist medical care but due to nature of his injuries is to return to Australia for further treatment,” Brigadier Nikolic said.
The remaining soldier is expected to make a complete recovery and will remain on duty in Afghanistan.
During a later route clearance task an EDD and his handler encountered a second IED.
The bomb detonated on discovery, resulting in the slight wounding of the handler and the death of the dog, who was named Razz. The handler continued with his duties.
Defence Spokesperson Brigadier Andrew Nikolic said Razz was a veteran of the 2002 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. He joined Defence after beginning his career with Customs.
Brigadier Nikolic said the actions of Razz and his fellow EDDs had saved lives.
The pic is of Razz during training in Australia
From Defence Media
Someones getting frustrated
A MAN has been arrested after a flaming shoulder bag was thrown over the fence of the Prime Minister’s Sydney residence, Kirribilli House.
Local police were called at 11.48am (AEST) after the man allegedly ignited the woven cotten bag and threw it over the gate, a NSW police spokeswoman said.
The Prime Minister was in Canberra at the time and no one was hurt but it is a bad start to the election campaign.
Taking the unwanted gift back to the store
Angela Shanahan in todays Australian nails the Lesbian couple who are unhappy about the birth of a healthy baby.
THE yuck factor looms large in the case of the Melbourne lesbians suing Canberra obstetrician Robert Armellin for the conception of IVF twins, rather than a single child.
My wife and I are parents of twins. They arrived unheralded when I was a young Lieutenant on little salary and already with three kids under 6 in the house. The double birth was unknown until a trainee midwife noticed a double heartbeat moments before the doctor was about to induce ‘the’ baby. My wife and I could’ve sued but when you held them for the first time how could you have any feelings but those of love and protection.
These women are on $200,000.00 a year, have commercialized the wonder of birth and life and, in my opinion, are not entitled to the love of children. The kids are doomed to a confusing life. “I am the one they didn’t want” thinks Twin 2 while Twin 1 will remember her ‘parents’ didn’t want his/her soulmate. Not to mention…Mummy, why do all the other kids have a Daddy and we don’t?
Lesbians and other single women who have deliberately chosen a lifestyle that reduces the role of the father to carefully chosen but anonymous sperm donor have effectively decided to deny one half of the child’s genetic make-up, one half of who that child is. This tells us something about the basic ethical problem here, and it gives the lie to the politically correct argument that anyone should be able to form a family.
I don’t like it.
Al Gore’s being silly now
Mr Gore proposed that payroll and even income taxes be abolished and replaced with taxes on greenhouse gases and pollution to encourage employment and discourage environmental damage.
I can see the $1000-a-plate businessmen nodding sagely at that one.
The man’s loopy.
Keating reacts on-cue
PAUL Keating has attacked former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan’s memory of recent history after he failed to recognise the former Labor prime minister’s role in modernising the Australian economy.
“But if his book is any guide, especially as it relates to Australia, those claims do not extend to him being a noteworthy economic historian,” the former treasurer said.
I have some sympathy for Keating in this matter but I won’t let it get in the way of a good laugh at his expense.
Greenspan may have got Keating’s contributions wrong but anything else he says that denigrates Bush will be quoted as gospel.
Pumpkin’s mum long time finding
FOR at least six days, Anan Liu lay dead in the boot of her husband’s car outside their family home. For two of those days, police cordoned off the Keystone Avenue house while they looked for the young mother, clueless to her whereabouts.
Embarrassed Auckland police yesterday defended their decision not to make an earlier search of the car, saying they did not have the proper warrants.
Proper warrants!
Proper stuff-up. They should be embarrassed.
UPDATE: I can’t believe it happened on Keystone Avenue
Costello slips in the boot
Treasurer Peter Costello, in parliament yesterday, slams Labor’s plan to spend tax dollars for an indefinite cause.
IN Labor’s New Directions for the Arts, you find on page six, under the heading Supporting Australian Artists, that Labor will review the current state of artists’ incomes … It says that Labor will “review the current state of artists’ incomes and introduce initiatives that enable artists currently on welfare greater opportunity to produce work“. I will repeat that. Artists who are on welfare need greater opportunity to produce work. You might say to yourself: If you’re on welfare, you would have a lot of time to produce work if you were an artist.
The member for Kingsford Smith (Peter Garrett) said that I would never have thought of something like this. Well, blow me down. I never have thought of something like this: that somebody on welfare needs more time to produce art.
It’s the kind of rubbish that the ALP are presenting as policy. Is Garrett going to double their welfare so they can produce double the work?
Still, a sentence like that in policy statement may get a couple of votes.
Greenspan delivers
The Left have latched onto Alan Greenspan saying Iraq is all about oil however he didn’t actually say that. He just said it was a part of the mix.
From the Washington Post
Greenspan, who was the country’s top voice on monetary policy at the time Bush decided to go to war in Iraq, has refrained from extensive public comment on it until now, but he made the striking comment in a new memoir out today that “the Iraq War is largely about oil.” In the interview, he clarified that sentence in his 531-page book, saying that while securing global oil supplies was “not the administration’s motive,” he had presented the White House with the case for why removing Hussein was important for the global economy.
“I was not saying that that’s the administration’s motive,” Greenspan said in an interview Saturday, “I’m just saying that if somebody asked me, ‘Are we fortunate in taking out Saddam?’ I would say it was essential.”
Uh uh…the Left have gone from a loud roar to a muted mutter
JOHN Howard gets a big tick, as does Bob Hawke. Peter Costello is up there too, bracketed with Ian Macfarlane as “unusually perceptive on global issues”.
But when former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan discusses the remarkable transformation of the Australian economy since the mid-1980s, there are no accolades for Paul Keating. Not a single one.
I’m prepared to give Keating some credit for Australia’s economy but as he is the politician who defines hubris in Australia I’m happy that he doesn’t rate a mention with Greenspan. I trust he’s fuming and hope he has some comment in the media about it all. Every mention of Keating in the media helps the Coalition cause
and this;
“Prime Minister John Howard impressed me with his deep interest in the role of technology in American productivity growth.
“Whereas most heads of government steer clear of such detail, he (Mr Howard) sought me out on numerous visits to the US between 1997 and 2005.
“He needed no prodding from me on monetary policy.”
Keating must be beside himself with rage……brings a smile to my lips just thinking about it!
Loud applause and ‘told you so……..muted muttering……the sounds of silence.
That’ll be the last time the left quote Greenspan
Weird stuff
THERE was a time when Greg Withers, husband of new Premier Anna Bligh and Queensland’s first “first bloke”, went by the name of Greg Francis. The year was 1987 and Mr Withers and Ms Bligh were expecting their first child but were keen to avoid what the two referred to at the time as “patriarchal tyranny”.
She had no great desire to name her child after her father, so the couple chose the name Francis, after Anna’s mother but with a different spelling. Joe Francis is now 20 and a film student at Griffith University.
When Joe was born in 1987, in the twilight of the morally conservative Bjelke-Petersen regime, the only other option to putting the father’s name on the birth certificate was to put “father unknown”, which the two deemed too extreme. So Mr Withers changed his name by deed poll before Joe’s birth, and afterwards he reverted to being Greg Withers again.
So, she refused to take her husbands name in marriage and then refused to allow her son to take her surname when born. I wonder if she just hated her father or all men? If she forced her ‘husband’ to change his name by deed poll just to satisfy this weird convoluted thinking then I don’t like her. If her husband did it voluntarily then I don’t like either of them.
And she is now leader of one of Australia’s leading states.