So, Anglo saxon parents must be better - at least in Australia

So once again, we decide to to take the one action we know, when we feel some non white Anglo-Saxon kid or parent does something stupid. Stupidity is unashamedly reserved simply for white Anglo Saxons. Yes, for others, it must be a bad upbringing and we need to come to the rescue and whisk them away from their baaaaad parents to the safety of being abused by some catholic clergymen or other white individual. As history shows it works all the time.

OK, it wasn't the smartest thing for a mum to get a young kid to hold a Packard about beheadings and then take a photo! But could it have been just a thoughtless act in a moment of passionate euphoria? No, that would be impossible if it was from an ethic mum. It's gotta be baaaaaad parenting.

Heck, I took my 2 year old son to the anti-war demonstrations in Sydney where there were images of Howard on all fours nosing Bush in a part of his anatomy I need not mention! That sure must be baaaaad parenting cos I ain't white Anglo-Saxon. No, I wouldn't dare suggest there is a double standard nor some good ole Aussie ignorant hysteria. I could have DoCS at my door step anytime!!

Ban Muslims from coming here, says Ross Someone on ABC radio - where on earth did Richard find that clown?!! I gather he used to be a politician gone wrong.

I wonder how many kids were captured and driven to sexual abuse after the totally acceptable behaviour at the Crunulla incident a few years back?!!

Let's get our fingers off the trigger, take a few deep breaths and take the recent Sydney event for what it was - a small minority of people, most of whom went there for a good natured protest but ended up in something that became ugly. I'm still not sure what triggered the violence, but hey, who cares, it was Muslims, so it has gotta be a fault in their religion and culture, doesn't it?! Yes, I suspect there is a hand full of radicals involved and for the well being of the Muslim community as much as any other, we need to identify them. If there were criminal acts involved then lets prosecute as appropriate.

But taking kids from their families?!! Let's calm down, take it ezy n have another VB, mate!!!

Ah! . . . the circus continues!!

Context: I don’t quite recall the context of this one, but it appears to have been during the Gillard years, sometime in Winter (The winter ball was on the 27th June in 2012), where a Labor Party legislation relating to asylum seekers was defeated in the upper house – possibly the Malaysia proposal. I suspect the Greens would have been insisting that all refugee centres were on the mainland (one of their good looking chics must have shed a tear or two for the camera) and the Libs, true to form, would just vote “No” regardless!

The Government makes compromises, the Libs say the only word they know for everything  - "NO" -  isn't that what mummy taught her to say?! . . . and of course the Greens are on another planet smokin' some environmentally friendly substance.

Crocodile tears from the Greens (was n't that good?!! Greens - environment – crocodiles, Get it?!!) and maybe from a few others but guess what - it's our way or the Highway ..  and now that the performance to the cameras is over, it’s off to the Mid Winter Ball!! or had they already been?!! Don't we expect so much from our politicians these days?!

So the upper house interferes again! Did someone say there were too many politicians? Well, there's a solution right there!!

I love the Greens . . . all care no accountability. To think I voted for them once! In my defence, it wasn't 'cos I thought they were good (though they probably have the best looking members of parliament. . . ooops that's probably politically incorrect in so many ways!!), it was just that I didn't want to vote for the others. I learned my lesson real quick, the next elections were invalid votes. I guess you need someone to balance out the Pauline Hanson party!! One day we might have a green policy that is realistic.

Ok, let me divulge my true colours - I have always had views to the left of centre and used to vote Labour. But I now live in what is probably the safest Liberal seat, so my vote is irrelevant.

And so the boats will keep sinking. Most Aussies don't care, really - "they're bloomin' terrorists or some coloured skins" are the not? "We don't want them on our shores"! "Let it be someone else's problem, rather than them taking our jobs and crowding up Australia (that's funny)"!

Hear, hear, let's keep the charade goin'!!!

An apology to Sadako

My son was taken to see the play "Sadako and the Thousand Cranes" yesterday. I had vaguely heard about it before, but while talking to him about it, I could not stop my mind from wandering about this atrocity.

How is it that we make such a fuss about apologies by nations on various scales but the most horrific of atrocities to mankind has never been the subject of this discussion? How is it that we are able to justify this in our minds and not think there is an apology due? It is the most horrific war crime ever.

This true story, in it's simplicity, is a reflection of the beauty of the culture that produced it. One that we have been unable to fully appreciate due to our successful efforts to demonise it.

It was wonderful to observe my son grapple with a complex set of emotions that were taking over him that he didn't fully understand. He said he hated America!! - a temporary feeling, I'm sure.

 

Well, Sadako I unreservedly apologise to you and the very many other beautiful children, women and men of your people, who represent one of the most exquisite cultures in our world. I hope your dad’s story and your magical response resonate in our minds forever.

Hi all!!

this is my very first BLOG entry. So now I am officially a “blogger”!

Someone please red card that boof head Gallen! Cos the refs did not have the ooomph to do it yesterday.

NSW obviously went to the game wanting to bash-up it's opposition not win the game. You appoint a boof head as skipper and then take a team of thugs with names of feathered animals on to the field - what do you expect. Was anyone surprised that the thug was involved in two of the incidents of thuggery on the field (His feathered friend, not Gallen)?!!!

As for the refs, when are they going to take control of the game. Gallon should have been red carded for his total disrespect for the game the spectators let alone the referees and suspended for 4 weeks preventing him from taking any further part in the series. He should be given the rule book and told to get someone to read it for him and explain the fact that there are rules and the meaning of them. I hope the totally NSW biased beaurocracy has the decency to do that.

I was watching the game with my 10 year old and was appalled at the language and gestures being used by both him and Robby Farrer. Fortunately he plays a different code of the game where such loutish behaviour will not be tollerated.

One bit of advise to the coach - get rid of the louts and get some intelligence in the team. That is the only way NSW will win the game. We have the better players, we just let politics get in the way.