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Packer memorial service upsets luvvies

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Age readers aghast at memorial service for Packer.

But since news of the state memorial service broke, The Age has been deluged with letters from aggrieved taxpayers.

Noel Howard, of Heathmont, asked whether the memorial service would involve “a conga line of Coalition MPs delivering their eulogies to their patron saint and number one supporter”.


How sweet the sound; the politics of envy.

The Opposition spokesman for public accountability, Kelvin Thomson, said: “I would suggest the guidelines might be in need of some review.”

Don’t make the review to big or Gough Whitlam will dumped in a hole at midnight when he finally departs. Whatever you think of Packer, his life had more positives than Whitlam’s.

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Council reconsiders

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The no-flag issue at Waverly Council gains the council media coverage for two successive days. Today they are reported as having a rethink.

“I have called on the Premier and Mr Turnbull to meet with me to discuss the appropriateness of putting flags on the pavilion and also how it can be funded,” she said.

Just bloody fly them woman. You don’t need funding and you don’t need to involve politicians who have a real job to do.

Ms Main and fellow Green, George Copeland, had led a group of Labor councillors, including Mr Newhouse, Peter Moscatt, John Wakefield and Ingrid Strewe, who wanted to ban the flag from the pavilion, sparking outrage.

Ah ah. They’re Greens. That explains it

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Council Surrenders

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Waverley Council last month voted 6-5 against flying the national flag over the iconic beach, saying it may cause racial tensions to flare, inciting further surfside violence.

Can someone publish the names of the six idiots who voted not to fly the flag so the local voters can get rid of them next time they have an election.

Premier Dilemma has urged the council to reconsider its “disgraceful” decision not to fly the flag but too date has said very little about the problems in his own electorate. Neither have I heard him say anything about instructing police to actually police the state.

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Saudi questions students going overseas

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Maha Al-Hujailan, Al-Watan, a reporter with Arab News, raises some issues about sending teenagers overseas for education.

One of the bad habits that our students take with them when they go abroad is the culture of sexual harassment. They cannot take this culture to America. American woman can easily report sexual harassment to authorities. Saudis that engage in sexual harassment can end up arrested, charged, jailed, and deported. In this system that often sides with the woman in sexual harassment cases, what do you think happens when the accused is an Arab?

Good question but a better one is why not educate your youth to respect woman and law to start with.

Furthermore, Saudi students will face a justice system that doesn’t recognize the Saudi practice of “wasta??? (connections with higher ups that can get you out of trouble with the law).

And what about the Saudi way of driving? With highly organized and patrolled traffic systems in America, and the West in general, I do not think Saudi students would last very long on their roads.

Well, now that you have admitted the Kingdom is failing Saudi youth what about addressing these problems. It’s not as if the law of western societies is all that radical.

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Hicks running out of friends

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As expected, the British Home Secretary Charles Clarke has launched an appeal against a High Court ruling that David Hicks, who has been in US captivity since late 2001 when he was captured fighting for the Taliban, was entitled to British citizenship and that it should be conferred without delay.

The Brits show bipartisan displeasure at the High Court decision and call Hicks for what he is…deeply undesirable and an opportunist Pom.

Labour and the Tory opposition are united in opposing the citizenship move. Opposition homeland security spokesman Patrick Mercer labelled Hicks “deeply undesirable”. “He only starts showing an interest in being British when it is to his advantage,” Mr Mercer said.

Meanwhile, The Sun newspaper carried an editorial praising Mr Clarke for his decision to appeal the citizenship bid.

“British citizenship should be reserved for those who have a burning desire to serve this country – not take advantage of it,” the paper said.

Damn right and there could be a case to reserve Australian citizenship for those who have a burning desire to be Australian. Too many come here because we have the best Social Security and medical services in the region.

War on Terror

Nine killed in jail gun battle

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All the media can come up to fill their daily ‘what is wrong in Iraq and here is proof that it is a civil war’ quota is a story about some prisoners having a stoush.

AT least nine prisoners and guards were killed in a gun battle at a Baghdad high-security jail overnight after detained guerrilla suspects, some of them foreign, grabbed weapons and tried to flee, officials said.

Big deal.

Still on Iraq, Andrew Bolt has recently visited Iraq and reports Why might is right

It is this spreading of freedom that, for me, was the aim of it all — a spreading of democracy to Muslim lands that had festered with poverty and lethal hatred under hard scabs of tyranny.

But that was the theory. Here are some of my snapshots of the up-close reality.

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ID card next on the agenda

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PHILIP Ruddock is treating the controversial national identity card as the “the next cab off the rank” for the Howard Government’s security agenda following the passage of its tough anti-terrorism laws.

I know there is a lot of opposition to an identity card but for the life of me I cannot imagine why. Unless you are a criminal or in Australia illegally what on earth is there to be afraid of. For example, I think I should be called upon to identify myself when I vote and can only imagine if someone doesn’t want to be identified at the polling booth then they have something to hide.

What’s the problem readers?

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Tell someone who cares

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MELBOURNE’S 10 terrorism suspects are spending Christmas in solitary confinement, dressed in “Guantanamo Bay orange” and banned from touching their loved ones.

With about 23,000 prisoners in gaol over Christmas, some of whom are incarcerated for victimless crimes, I am less than sympathetic about a brace of potential mass murderers being deprived of liberty in a society where they were planning to deprive people of their lives.

I just wonder why the Age feels a need to take on the roll as witness for the defence.

War on Terror

Merry Chrismas

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I wish a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year to my supporters, detractors and those I have yet to meet and call on all of you to remember that whereas we differ in opinions we still live in a great country. Adrian at A man of Lettuce has a nice human interest post with a military bent and I commend his post to all of you.

20 plus in-laws and outlaws will be here at my place tomorrow (my own family are in West Australia) and some old Army friends will drop in.

The bar is rebuilt, the fridges and eskies loaded, the pool clean and inviting. I will buy a mob of ice tomorrow morning and throw in the pool to try and bring the water temperature down from today’s 34 degC. The weather forecast promises a typical Brisbane Christmas….39 deg C.

Muslims, Christians, Agnostics, Athiests, Hedonists, Caucasions, a Jew, Aboriginies, Chinese/Malay, Poms, Kiwis and Paddies. Hate Howard, laugh at Kim, Left-wing, Right Wing, Don’t know and Don’t care will all gather at my home at Taigum – symbolic of what is good about Australia.

My forward scout from Vietnam days, Rob Edgell, has been our house guest for a couple of days complete with wife and daughter so if you have noticed the lack of posts then that should explain it. We had to catch up with what the guys are doing and refight the battles again. We won them all this time (and the last time for that matter)

Christmas Eve 1970 I lay in ambush with very few “peace to all mankind” feelings in my heart. I was lonely, missing my wife and very hopefull that no VC would venture out of the Long Hai enemy stronghold that night…..please Santa! If nothing else, that ambush patrol gave me a base to judge all subsequent Christmases and surprisingly they have all been better ones. So tomorrow, spare a thought for all those men and woman overseas away from their love ones.

Whatever you think, they know they are defending your freedoms and that is all that matters.

Enjoy your day.

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