Cockeyed views

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-Sa...

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 perfo...

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...

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 t...