tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39675882011-08-16T00:19:04.177-07:00Wog BlogWHAT AM I THINKING ABOUT?WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.comBlogger10191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-73698099573228496202010-04-24T17:50:00.001-07:002010-04-24T17:51:36.509-07:00ANZAC Day. Love.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-74026861270673969272010-04-12T05:16:00.000-07:002010-04-14T02:30:38.418-07:00Crikey Apologises to Tim BlairFinally. Properly. More on this in due course. UPDATE: When I write "more" I just mean maybe I'll put up a post about defamation law in Oz. But, as you'll see from my recent blogging history, which is infrequent at best, I wouldn't hold your breath. So maybe not.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-26940066713113900602009-10-03T15:19:00.000-07:002009-10-03T16:24:49.345-07:00Speak ClearlyMalcolm Turnbull, Leader of the Opposition in Oz, a nice man, a clever man, family man, says something like "I won't be a leader of a party with nothing to say about climate change". Lordy that's infuriating. 'Nothing to say'? Gi Fa.What he means is, if you're not prepared to acknowledge as a starting point that manmade greenhouse emissions, specially carbon, have to be taxed to stopWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-43443294885941970882009-05-22T04:46:00.000-07:002009-05-25T17:01:26.406-07:00O. Mo. Go. Ocarnbuhleevi.UPDATE: O. Mo. Go. Oshouldnabuhleevedi.She made the whole thing up for fun cos she's a camera happy bogan from the Northern Beaches and she didn't mean anything by it, not even the 'wog' thing. Clare reckons that it just isn't the bad word it used to be - 'wog' - and it can't be a bad word if you're proud of your background. She's proud to be a bogan. I'm proud to wog. WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-3422965252466468662009-04-24T19:29:00.000-07:002009-04-24T19:36:35.344-07:00ANZAC Day 2009Septimus Power. Love.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-42517561663894868732009-04-06T19:33:00.000-07:002009-04-06T20:20:38.306-07:00Teremoto L'Aquila 6 Aprile 2009Lacrime.It's meant to look like this.My family's all alright, thank Christ, but they're worried for pals. For all those who aren't alright or are lost, and their families and friends and colleagues, prayers and condoglienze. And for all the ambulance folks and fire folks and the police and carabinieri and the dogs and the charity people, you are angels.God, it's WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-43926371254397254622009-04-02T06:22:00.000-07:002009-04-02T06:33:51.252-07:00Where ya bin, wog?To quote former President George H.W Bush, "I bin getting around, doing the thing". Watched Obama win the US Presidential Election and I am okeedoke with that. The man doesn't wake up every day thinking "How can I ruin the country?". I don't care for his politics, but then hey. I don't expect he cares much for mine. No biggie. PM Rudd of Oz doesn't wake up every day thinking "WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-44535382812665408562008-11-30T03:25:00.000-08:002008-11-30T03:26:59.114-08:00MooksShame on you, Theo Spark.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-10654772869724805052008-09-08T04:31:00.000-07:002008-09-08T04:45:40.301-07:00Madness in the POTUS 08 CampaignJust want to capture two pieces that show nutty liberal think. 1. This piece by an actor, Richard Schiff, which he might just as well have titled "I Married a Racist" since that what he thinks of his wife cos she won't vote Obama. Seriously. Have a read and see what he's published on the internet about his own wife. Incredible. If she stays with him it will have toWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-38232026402374056542008-08-04T06:05:00.000-07:002008-08-04T06:07:04.345-07:00BEARS!From the incomparable Theo Spark.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-65844850395562235002008-08-04T05:58:00.001-07:002008-08-04T05:58:26.338-07:00PreachWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-3032864974124229032008-08-04T05:18:00.000-07:002008-08-04T05:45:40.671-07:00The Shorter KRuddMy name's Kevin and I am wordy, but not very bright. I think markets fail. I think they have to be regulated. I think Oz's past and present prosperity has to be hit hard because I want to differentiate my government from the Howard year. I am not interested in more prosperity. I am interested in big picture hoo-hah cos I want to be head of the UN one day Seriously, I was gonna WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-4202884677390004472008-07-31T04:39:00.000-07:002008-07-31T04:55:47.525-07:00Did I Do Something Wrong?About a week ago I drove home from work, in bumper-to-bumper traffic, lights on, raininess and coldness misery outside, and all clutch in, clutch out, clutch in, clutch out, absolutely crawling. And I was zoning out a bit, listening to something classical, maybe Schubert, a lovely attempt by the radio station to lift spirits in miserable weather. The car in front of me WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-17746938635561955742008-06-23T04:28:00.000-07:002008-06-23T04:30:08.101-07:00James May Says It All For MeWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-5181448024315452152008-06-08T16:54:00.000-07:002008-06-08T17:40:36.542-07:00Dylan Fans Are Sooo Into HimI know one personaly. Not just a fan, not just a student of the man, but a full blown professor of Dylan. It's all a very Jane-Goodall-and-the-apes kinda scene watching and listening to him wax lyrical about his no. 1 hero. The sitting up a bit higher in the chair, the moving of the hands, the pulling up utterly tedious facts like which bootleg comes from which gig. WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-58885268281412111702008-05-27T05:02:00.000-07:002008-05-27T05:47:30.358-07:00Obsessions: Bill Henson: A DocumentaryOn the ABC tonight. Lovely. "Profoundly ambiguous yet absolutely focussed at the same time". Henson describing his work. Two concepts that make no sense even in contrast. Clear arts blather. Come on Bill - hoping for more from you. "Contrast of squalor....strange ambiguity,...huge resonances... ." Edmund Capon. Again with the untenable matching of WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-45108280332692634802008-05-26T19:57:00.000-07:002008-05-27T02:50:12.545-07:00Never Fear, Adams HereThat gallumphing sound you can hear is Phat Phil Adams riding to a bloated "rescue" of Creepy Bill Henson of photos-of-nude-children-in-the-dark fame. Phatty admits: "...there’s little doubt that among those who crowd his exhibitions, camouflaged by sophistication of the setting, are pedophiles. (Of course, the high arts have always aided and abetted voyeurism...."Great. WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-30122771010541481472008-05-12T00:39:00.000-07:002008-05-12T01:17:27.357-07:00Hubba Hubba! Now This Is How Politicians Should LookWhoo, them Italian politico gals is easy on the eye, no? Thanks Rob at terrific Wind Rose Hotel. for this bit of news you can use and also for this tag (scusi for the delay, here. Took a couple weeks off to enjoy other blogs a bit). So here goes (albeit abbreviated to 10 questions):1. Last movie you saw in a theater? For the life of me I cannotWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-27603282475466018402008-05-12T00:36:00.000-07:002008-05-12T00:39:15.780-07:00In Bocca Al Lupo, TimmyThat is 'good luck', for youse ignorant skips. Link at left duly fixed for Tim Blair's new News Limited venture.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-44190743210047197082008-05-01T08:02:00.000-07:002008-05-01T08:08:18.825-07:00See You In Court, AlSuing Gore is some litigation I could really get behind, the lardy wanker.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-44696496195233729702008-05-01T06:57:00.000-07:002008-05-01T06:59:17.851-07:00What the ...?Who knew the Italians were so organised as to even have the nation's taxpayer details all online? Crikey, eh?WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-1296926371603676102008-05-01T05:25:00.000-07:002008-05-01T05:38:55.842-07:00Hillary on O'ReillyPoke fun at her all you like as the linked LGF post does and squeal about her selling out as this Huffington Post thread does , but I saw her today getting interviewed in the "No Spin Zone" and I reckon she did real well. Real well. And if it were down to me (which it is not cos I am an Oz citizen) I prolly would not be voting for her cos of her policies. But she knows her WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-52768838324839848452008-05-01T04:59:00.000-07:002008-05-01T05:04:22.374-07:00A Gigantic Waterfront OrbCheck out the Rem Koolhaas design for Dubai. Man's a genius. He got a vote from me in the Prospect public intellectual thingy. H/T WretchardWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-13578768277499545982008-05-01T04:54:00.000-07:002008-05-01T04:58:46.336-07:00Equal Treatment for GaysSame superannuation rights, same succession rights, etc etc as for hetero couples. I am for it. What possible reason can there be not to be for it? Gays can be couples too. Guh. I say Goooo, Gays.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-80075689966982099302008-05-01T00:53:00.000-07:002008-05-01T01:44:26.285-07:00Rightie Mayor WinsIn Rome, that is. In London, they vote ... any minute now I guess. A rightie win predicted in some quarters. And, in a show of tedious obviousness, The Guardian is appalled at the prospect.I say Gooooo, Boris. He hates bendy buses and I do too. They are wrong. Like those sand spiders in Iraq. Oooh. I have just given myself the willys with that link.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-84573176367282858602008-04-30T20:51:00.000-07:002008-05-01T04:11:03.617-07:00Obama down another 2 points in North CarolinaMan, we are living in interesting times. I am a happy wog living in the best country on earth - Oz, natch - and watching the U.S.A have one heck of a big ol' discussion about race, whether some folks want to realise it or not. Atchally, the discussion is about black grievance whining of the Reverend Pussy variety in an age when it has been 140 years WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-21128172244752105162008-04-30T07:49:00.000-07:002008-04-30T08:05:01.044-07:00WThanks to Theo and his team.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-19110377450245293052008-04-30T06:37:00.000-07:002008-04-30T08:04:23.276-07:00Barack Obama on Reverend Pussy - I Cut YouI do not have the energy to capture this whole thing for the blog (others have it covered) except to note that this is a lot like wogs fighting. And plus Barack's wife is a black grievance wallower like his pastor. His closest folks are....how you say? Not normal. Out on the spiral arm. I could almost feel for him - it has to be unpleasant, but his 'WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-80476959353343938912008-04-30T04:39:00.000-07:002008-04-30T21:49:16.039-07:00Acknowledging Aboriginal TribesBin busy today, a part of which was spent in the company of politicians (do not ask, I have only just washed off the stink of it). Anyhoo, opening remarks by politico number 1 was an acknowledgement that the Four Seasons hotel in the Rocks in Sydney "is on original tribal land of the somethingorother people", no disrespect, I just could not understand the names. WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-66404193303989774152008-04-30T04:32:00.000-07:002008-04-30T04:33:13.833-07:00Oooooh, GodWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-45468839474707975142008-04-29T04:53:00.000-07:002008-04-29T04:59:22.020-07:00Put the Foot Down AbirA Jordanian woman rally driver. Thanks to Foreign Correspondent for a great story showing a fab modern Arab woman who thinks "woman have the right to be just like a man". Damn straight.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-32684368699985083892008-04-29T01:41:00.000-07:002008-04-29T02:49:30.862-07:00Ah, the 80s52 GirlsHmm. "Hillary & Chelsea". These are the girls of the U.S.A. The principal girls of the U.S.A.Radio Free EuropeStands up, doesn't it?How Can The Labouring man Find Time For Self-Culture...Maybe it was not such a bad decade, eh?WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-85479264303957069202008-04-28T21:45:00.000-07:002008-04-28T21:57:31.656-07:00Wogs Behaving BadlyTim Blair links to the slapping-crying cricket incident in India. Read the comments in the YouTube thread. Apparently Punjabis do not get along with Mullases. They are like the Croats and Serbs of the subcontinent. Who knew?WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-18494159772535183772008-04-28T21:09:00.000-07:002008-04-28T21:58:30.213-07:00BrazilianI merely point out the nationality. I make no comment. That is all.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-69070637326120337472008-04-28T19:28:00.000-07:002008-04-28T21:03:34.332-07:00"Capisce?" Capisce? Capisce? What are you, a mafioso now? Va. Fa. Cu. Capisce?Reverend "Pussy" is back in the limelight, with all the class and scholarship that we have come to expect of a man who likes to pass off a 2 month "Doctorate of Ministry" course as if it demonstrates his academic chops when it is just barely one step up from an frickin' internet "university degree". The man is a WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-47103611842617356092008-04-28T04:06:00.000-07:002008-04-28T05:47:21.951-07:00Creeping ShariaHere's hoping the noxious weed does not make into Oz.UPDATE: From the fine David Thompson evidence that the snivelling to Sharia has made it to the UK but there are still folks there who mock it all.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-20051731963019241712008-04-27T22:50:00.000-07:002008-04-28T03:16:05.188-07:00Stop the Active Contribution. Please.Brace yourselves. Elizabeth MacGregor, who runs the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney has written a piece for the Daily Telegraph about her role at the 2020 summit. Is it any different to Cate Blanchett's blather before? Youse know the answer. Here she goes now - opens by patronising her audience, natch:...I am keen to address some of the misunderstandingsWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-17160180063957745152008-04-27T21:48:00.000-07:002008-04-27T22:48:02.283-07:00Facts in ContextThe very best kind. Another one I love is the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. They reckon that, in the 2006-2007 year, they experienced a jump in complaints of 42%. How awful eh? Except they did not. [You will be wanting part 4.3.4]. They used a lowered baseline of averages over previous years to generate that percentage jump. In reality the jump was 27%.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-91609914530567324012008-04-27T19:06:00.000-07:002008-04-27T19:27:58.111-07:00Mahmood is making TV......and it is good. When was the last you saw an Arab making jokes about Saudi?WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-82340443496821945172008-04-26T22:42:00.000-07:002008-04-26T23:12:47.377-07:00Mamma Mia! Che Brutte FacceOverblown Lefty Conspiracy Propaganda from ItalyBut with Ennio Morricone accompanying. So never mind the truth of any of it, never mind if there is even any message beyond that some folks is ugly. Just enjoy the whole tone. I have not seen Italia-as-evil and conspiracy-peddling this good since the 70s with the The Godfather and The Omen. Looking at all these faces, theyWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-44025850469465749192008-04-26T20:05:00.000-07:002008-04-26T20:26:41.413-07:00Opera FantasticaDiana Damrau as the Queen of the Night. She is brilliant, Mozart's opera is wonderful, the staging is perfect. Opera is art. And for it to be this good it ain't cheap. This is art I can get behind, funding wise I mean. You do not even need to like opera to get into this. Wowee!Thanks for this go to Andrew Bolt for putting up a bunch of opera clips on his blog of late which is WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-5506225342435749352008-04-26T19:16:00.000-07:002008-04-27T06:55:01.737-07:00Best of BreedWhen I was a toddler my parents made a decision. I think at that stage the car of choice was an FJ Holden. They got in it and drove it to a kennel in Northeastern Victoria and when they drove back home they had Duffton Massimus Caius with them, the world's greatest and most maginificent specimen of black labradorhood ever. Well, my world, anyway.They made the decision after some WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-42352987070952218632008-04-26T18:55:00.000-07:002008-04-26T19:07:57.887-07:00Must Mark ANZAC Day2008. Love.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-7340459161198858422008-04-19T21:02:00.000-07:002008-04-20T02:12:24.693-07:00Australia in 2020 will......have 16 (UPDATE: make that 20 now that the actual report is out - there is a new agency in Productivity and a new one in Rural too and another one in Health incredibly given they already have so many, and a new one in Families, that one to do with the government insuring people against serious injury) new government agencies. That is my count from the Summit WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-83869281763773041662008-04-19T17:34:00.000-07:002008-04-19T19:47:01.583-07:00Nuclear was not mentioned[NOTE: Link is to The Age's roundup. The Sustainability stream of the 2020 summit. It appears to have a consensus to ignore nuclear energy as a sustainable future energy source. Seriously. But this cannot be right, can it? Urgh.Gonna just let this thing go on and comment later in the week cos this process, day 2, is absurd. The Health stream has just proposed taxing fags,WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-58444870212770296072008-04-18T23:24:00.000-07:002008-04-19T04:07:28.112-07:00In 2020 drugs will be legal but junk food will be banned[NOTE: Link to The Australian's report on the legalise drugs idea. Somewhere on the Oz site they should address the food nazis.]Nannys at Work, eh? Cannot get idiots off drugs using current methods so, instead, the medical stream of the 2020 summit wants to legalise all drugs and set up a whole system so that government workers can WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-43995151393032359902008-04-18T22:47:00.000-07:002008-04-18T23:12:43.882-07:00By 2020 it will be illegal to get drunk. [NOTE: link this time to Sydney Morning Herald blog about the 2020 Summit - not specifically about this unAustralian concept but mayeb in comments.]That is the big idea of Reverend Tim Costello. His largesse will allow us all to drink. But not to get 'intoxicated'. Canyoubuhleevi? In Australia?What a wowser. That is not an Oz I wanna live in.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-28391415677601692812008-04-18T22:17:00.000-07:002008-04-18T22:46:04.610-07:00By 2020 Aboriginal people must be valued. As if they are devalued now, or not valued at all. Gi. Fa. [NOTE: The link is to Bolt's thread about the Summit. Scroll for the bits about Aboriginal stuff.]Aboriginal people are people, no different to any wog in the country, no different to any skip and if all they are is pissed or diddling their kids then they are disgusting wastful people who deserve WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-70776994892477448222008-04-18T20:55:00.000-07:002008-04-18T23:20:15.564-07:00I Really Appreciated Being Appreciated[NOTE: Link is to The Australian's page for the Summit. Bound to be something on there in due course about this arts bullshit.]That is the 2020 ideas Summit arts stream introduced by the retarded Cate Blanchett. She is such a honey to look at and such an egomaniac with no idea how stupid she is it is...how you say...sad. Cate could not resist a pissy WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-69765499470083679942008-04-16T22:43:00.000-07:002008-04-16T23:25:50.468-07:00They Do Not Like It Up 'ImObama fans, that is. They do not like it when their candidate is asked questions that are, in their view, off script.They do not like it when their candidate is not venerated. Natch, it is a "travesty" that folks do not ask the right questions and do not do enough venerating.Hillary fans, however, loved today's (Oz time) American ABC tv debate. Cos she showed him up as WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-21274735196980729142008-04-16T04:41:00.000-07:002008-04-16T06:07:50.312-07:00Why lie?Why assert that Aboriginals were horribly abused as medical guineapigs in the recent past if it is not true, there is no proof? Cos self-pity and victimhood are just how some people like to live their lives. By which I mean perpetualy feeling victimised about something and filled to the brim with self-pity cos of the victimisation they think they are laboring under. yeah? That is why. WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-49110191827326818562008-04-16T04:23:00.000-07:002008-04-16T04:41:13.178-07:00Italy under Berlusconi April 2008A great read from the UK Times about the Italian elections. If youse need more analysis hit the Italian blog links at left.UPDATE: ...he is a survivor. He has endured trials, articles and the incessant jibes of The Economist to rise from his own ashes on more than one occasion.Man, that is so true. I stopped getting The Economist cos it was just rubbish about WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-58135027788786140452008-04-16T03:34:00.000-07:002008-04-17T03:01:38.231-07:00Luvvie Still Full of ShitCate Blanchett has blathered her blather in the Sydney Morning herald on top of her lousy turn in the Daily Tele.Here she goes:Creativity is at the heart of every successful nation. It finds expression in great visual art, wonderful music, fabulous performances, stunning writing, gritty new productions and countless other mediums.Not that kind of "arts" creativity, it WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-82702650640894905722008-04-15T07:47:00.000-07:002008-04-15T07:50:20.155-07:00Steyn.I was in Italy a few years back and staying with a fab pal. She was driving and we were chatting. About Iraq. She was all in favour of Saddam staying put. She did not say it like that, but. Natch. When I asked her how she felt about the fact that Iraqis had held 3 elections to get a government of Kurds, Shia and Sunnis she said, and I quote: I don't care.Nice, eh? Do not ruin Iraq for me, WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-51380559364428830572008-04-15T05:46:00.000-07:002008-04-17T02:58:45.833-07:00Luvvie Full of ShitI know, I know, the sky is blue, breaths must go in and out, walking forwards needs one foot in front of the other. Actors are idiots. But this Cate Blanchett is a rolled gold arts snob. Good looking, top at acting, prolly nice lady, fine wife, caring mother, maybe even good mate and drinking buddy (when she is not up the duff) but whoo, she is a "artist" and she's the centre WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-88070635192668543092008-04-14T14:56:00.000-07:002008-04-16T04:25:57.402-07:00Berlusconi has won the Italian elections71 years old, billionaire, third time leading, apparently with enough votes to lead outright but also the weirdos of the Northern League may have made a good showing. Hmmmm. My father always said everything north of Modena was just a bunch of Austrians anyway. Maybe they should separate. Whatever. Italy rocks on regardless.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-64011985271380851942008-04-13T07:35:00.000-07:002008-04-13T18:11:33.521-07:00IncredibileWell, not, actually. Berlusconi getting back in the game is not so incredible. Seriously, if he was not there it just would not feel ... how you say...normal. Rob at the Wind Rose Hotel has nailed the weirdness. Me? I got a call in to cousin Fausto. He'll tell me the score. And cousin Renato too. He of the huge Alfa Romeo saloons. No point calling cousin Rita, she and her husband are WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-78005417826466960752008-04-13T06:51:00.000-07:002008-04-13T07:33:54.028-07:00The Patronising ToeragWhat the heck question was he answering? Here is ol' Barack Obama, again with the bloviating, this time describing middle Americans to a bunch of SanFran supporters. Ripe for another parsing, eh? Urgh. I do and do for youse.OBAMA: So, it depends on where you are, but I think it's fair to say that the places where we are going to have to do the most work are the places where WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-49905611010240022612008-04-13T04:48:00.000-07:002008-04-13T05:14:09.020-07:00BloviatorUPDATE: Whoo. Had a parsing of Obama’s big race speech up and it wrecked my blog. I have had to rebuild the thing as well as redo this post. Disastro! Except but, from this horror has come the benefit of cleaning up my template, tidying links, and, thank Jebus, working out how to collapse posts so’s youse do not have to read this whole bloviator race stuff on the front page, scroll WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-40812472174577856682008-03-20T22:26:00.001-07:002008-03-20T22:29:34.191-07:00Buona Pasqua a TuttiThat is Happy Easter for youse non-wogs.Here is a Easter Bunny.Good Lord, eh?WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-12473998966864986782008-03-18T00:05:00.000-07:002008-03-19T17:22:33.127-07:00US v UKTim Blair notes an American view of Old Engerland that is funny cos it is true. Americans do think the English are mostly filthy and ugly. And they're right. Oh, I am kidding. Why some of the cleanest folks I know...well, no atchally. I cannot swear to that.Bin thinking about the diff quite a bit of late, what with the Antique Roadshow in the UK and the American version. Was watching the WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-87535000081251431942008-03-17T18:54:00.000-07:002008-03-17T23:48:09.318-07:00A Reverend who says "Pussy"That would be the Reverend Doctor Jeremiah Wright Junior, Barack Obama's chosen pastor of 20 years. That would Barack Obama, Democrat senator currently engaged in a race with Hillary Clinton to become Democrat nominee for US President in elections in November this year. The "Doctor" title that the Reverend has earned is a "Doctor of Ministry". It is not a Doctor of WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-60528446745007522832007-12-27T14:36:00.000-08:002007-12-27T14:49:59.376-08:00Good Grief, eh?Benazir Bhutto shot in the neck and dead dead dead. Then the shooter blew himself (of course it was him, and doubtless an observant Muslim boy he was too) up and killed a bunch of nearby folks, Muslims all, natch. Hitchens has tapped out a quick and good piece about Benazir. Seems she might have been a Taliban fan once upon a time. ...Prolly the psychos who did this, with a bit of WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-28808949092529675632007-12-24T01:57:00.000-08:002007-12-24T02:07:18.038-08:00Buon NataleIt just would not be a wog Christmas without the Panettone and the rest of the delicious fixins. Thanks to all readers for readin' during this pretty neglectful year of blogging on my part. Must resolve to address this profound laziness in 08.Love.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-26589862147323988532007-12-09T14:43:00.000-08:002007-12-09T14:54:24.636-08:00KEVIN07 Out of the Darkness and Into the Light, eh?Ack. Not my voting choice but, hey, can I really complain when my preferred political team won 4 elections in a row? Nope. A goodly part of me thinks it is a good thing for Labor to get up, if only because. if they lost again, the sector of society that hates Howard and libs in general would quite simply go berserk. Degenerating into violence, WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-5805230527816775562007-11-21T13:55:00.000-08:002007-11-21T14:26:29.909-08:00What manner of idiocy is this?Natch, they are skippies who did this - the distributing of flyers from some bogusmythical Muslim organision saying 'Hey. Thanks Labour for going soft on Muslim terrorists' or some such rubbish. Skippies. Natch, fer sher. Unfunny and unfair, no matter how they try to dress this up. See, the problems of a modern multiculti society with a lot of "new australians" i.e WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-18717610265162212007-11-20T03:22:00.001-08:002007-11-21T13:55:34.756-08:00The Wog Blogger is...FiveAnd the Frog blogger too. I have been peddling the wog perspective on matters as well as judging what matters for some time now. And right now what matters is getting in to some serious celebrazione imbibing.Hat tips and hugs to all the readers and emailers, and to Blair for his occasional Blaivalanches and Norm for his Profile and the sadly retired Bunyip and silent WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-41308009755756855332007-11-19T12:45:00.000-08:002007-11-19T12:55:51.093-08:00How EmbarrassmentQuality tabloid reporting from the Daily Telegraph reveals Labor's crap ads featuring narky folks who have turned on the Prime Minister are scripted and filmed and wholly fake. Kinda fits with the party itself, seeing as how it is faking its policies by ripping them off the gumment.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-9314848123747269542007-11-19T12:25:00.000-08:002007-11-19T12:37:33.003-08:00Hey, this guy hates lawyers almost as much as me.... and he is a law professor too!WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-14940943173724830192007-11-19T03:33:00.000-08:002007-11-19T03:56:48.753-08:00Yeah, well yeahABC Lateline just did a tiny piece in Bennelong talking to some wogs there, in particular a couple Chinese small business owners - one restaurant, one office. Both voting for Howard, natch, because of the economy. The fellow was asked whether he was impressed that Kevin Rudd could speak Mandarin. Answer:"Not really. He was a diplomat so of course he should be bilingual. I speak WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-82255219862651639342007-11-18T12:56:00.000-08:002007-11-18T13:25:03.197-08:00Another comedy triumph from Annabelle CrabbThis time ridiculing Julia Gillard for her inability to just be straight with people. Say what you like about Howard but he'll happily confess to having an ideology that leaves people alone to get on with their own lives. Neither Gillard nor Rudd can even bear to expose to expose their ideology that insists on government interference in people's lives. WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-20498673003658726072007-11-14T09:03:00.000-08:002007-11-14T09:26:01.386-08:00Hmmmm, Climate Resistance, eh?This pleases me.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-72914161683915824192007-11-12T11:45:00.000-08:002007-11-12T11:49:02.371-08:00Finest country music album cover?It is good, but for my moneyLouvins.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-5133611616968813932007-11-11T14:32:00.000-08:002007-11-11T14:41:28.984-08:00"I never turned away from cathy, no matter how fat she was"Skips are rude.It is a gift.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-49026358576353617942007-11-11T14:23:00.000-08:002007-11-11T14:28:49.501-08:00Oh God. I am a Lazio FanGabriele Sandri, a 26-year-old disc jockey from Rome, was hit in the neck by a bullet while in a car at the rest area along the A1Autostrada highway near the town of Arezzo, about 200km north of Rome. The fans were heading to Lazio's match at Inter Milan.Arezzo police, reading a statement, said police in two patrol cars who had stopped on the opposite side of the highway WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-58357489469206389812007-11-10T17:31:00.000-08:002007-11-10T17:38:20.416-08:00Remembrance DayI remember it by thinking of Septimus Power.Wonderful and poignant.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-55987608024977385022007-11-10T16:54:00.000-08:002007-11-10T17:24:48.309-08:00Mafia 10 CommandmentsCan you believe this? Why, it is almost as if these violent retard drug-dealers are trying to seem honourable. It would be laughable, really, if it was not so damned sad. Good riddance to bad rubbish. 1. No-one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.What person? A person called Mario with many subwoofers in his hotted up WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-41295790138070187962007-11-10T16:34:00.000-08:002007-11-10T16:45:02.420-08:00Ah, Merry Old England...Here are two posts on the same topic.Not gonna stay merry for long with jackasses like Bari spewing their nonsense. I mean, pulp Rushie but leave the Protocols alone? Could this idiot be any more transparent? He is a Jew hating, poof hating woman oppressor who cannot fathom a life without his religion telling him how to think every second of every day. What a blight eh?WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-69046997270853306682007-11-10T16:21:00.000-08:002007-11-10T16:33:52.326-08:00Norman Mailer is DeadThat Powerline post about him is a goody. Captures Mailer quite well. Although the man was a leftie nightmare of idiocy and misplaced compassion:In 1980, Mailer spearheaded convicted killer Jack Abbott's successful bid for parole. He helped Abbott publish a collection of letters to Mailer about his experiences in prison. Abbott committed a murder within weeks of his release, WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-25173381486841008682007-11-09T16:17:00.000-08:002007-11-09T16:18:53.788-08:00Mahmood RocksWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-27519776866178476562007-11-08T23:52:00.000-08:002007-11-09T14:13:11.819-08:00Good Lord, Jonathan Steele is an Insufferable WankerHere he slags Sarkozy and here he flat out gymnastically defends Amadinejad (?). Now, I can accept that as an urban wog in Sydney I am doubtless late to the Steele Wankery and readers are already aware of the botulism Steele perpetuates in his writings. But seriously, read this shit and weep. See this cretin is one of them crap Brits, the ones WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-22565204534966232842007-11-08T23:14:00.000-08:002007-11-08T23:52:05.068-08:00Exsqueeze Me?... in October Italy became the first European Union member to be granted diplomatic representation in the 22-member Arab League. What genius decided this 'representation' was necessary? How embarrassment to be the first. Before even the French. Urgh.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-63511621285104582612007-11-08T22:36:00.000-08:002007-11-08T22:44:07.291-08:00A Brit SAS man speaks of IraqThis Brit. And it is mighty interesting and hopeful reading.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-14710962647873349072007-10-30T13:38:00.000-07:002007-10-30T13:45:39.364-07:00Excellent work from The TimesTop 20 blasphemies - natch it is the Ismalics that do the killing in response. Check it out, but. See how well behaved the Christians are in the face of so much nonsense.UPDATE: This, on the other hand, makes for depressing reading - Mosques filled to the rafters with violent woman hating, poof hatingm Jew hating blathery books. Still good work from the paper to WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-17397447463600561292007-10-29T02:55:00.000-07:002007-10-29T15:25:12.036-07:00Ya Gotta Accentuate the Peacefulness, Eliminate the VictimhoodBy which I mean, these guys, who are prolly not bad guys, need to understand what everyone on earth who is not a Muslim understands: Muslims commit more terrorism and have more violent reactions to simple stuff happening, like cartoons getting published, than any other type of person, full stop. Daylight between them and anyone else. WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-80238354639146458132007-10-27T22:56:00.000-07:002007-10-27T23:17:28.284-07:00Not a Good LookPictures of himself half-naked and holding his dick? Himself. His very own Family First self. Sheesh. It rather seems to me that at 22 this is not the end of his world. If you have ever had the grave misfortune of looking on the Facebook and the MySpace you will see the most stupid and future-reputation-injurious shots of folks all over the place. That they themselves publish. Of WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-19054767539135411122007-10-27T22:38:00.000-07:002007-10-27T22:52:14.619-07:00Say It Ain't So, Padre pioPadre Pio is everywhere in Italy. Every. Where. If he is shown to be a chubby ol' faker who liked a bit of rumpy pumpy with the ladies wll I am not sure how the nation will respond. Everywhere. When I was in Italy a coupla times back, I visited an elderly aunt in hospital. She was always telling me to come sit near her cos I smoke. Lovely lass, sadly passed on now. But WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-90309643919889703332007-10-27T13:59:00.001-07:002007-10-27T14:04:02.112-07:00Driving Rural EnglandHe is a cat man which is just plain wrong. But James May has done well with this column. H/T Theo SparkWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-27719142370594044132007-10-23T18:23:00.000-07:002007-10-23T18:27:25.634-07:00Nice Work SBSAiring a show called "Is Your House Killing You?" at 7.30 p.m AEST....While people are watching. From in their homes.Natch, none of the alarmist bullshit that is spewed is objectively true. It is all "may" and "potentially". I "may" "potentially" have to set fire to the SBS one of these days.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-12064285608097547322007-10-22T19:42:00.000-07:002007-10-23T01:50:21.494-07:00Read This and Weep...for ItalyBloggers have to register.In Italy. You have to be registered to blog.What on earth for? Why should they have to "register"? If stinking corrupt politicians are pissed off at being ridiculed and exposed in blogs, and feel they have been defamed or something, they can always find out about the authors by getting the ISPs to cough up the addresses etc etc. There are WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-3217206569356263882007-10-22T19:16:00.000-07:002007-10-22T19:30:46.350-07:00Pathetic 40% of the UK's Muslim population live in London. They make up 8.5% of London's population. London's population is seven and half mill. 8.5% of 7.5 mill is 637,500.Wembley Stadium seats 90000. 10000 of the 637500 Muslims who could have attended (never mind getting the train and coming from elsewhere in the UK) went to Wembley Stadium to "protest" Dthe Muslim atrocities being committed inWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-4257506517198361722007-10-21T16:30:00.000-07:002007-10-22T20:41:18.370-07:00Amsterdam Riots?Not sure how I missed all this but apparently we are up to day 6 after some Morroccan youths went berserk with the violence and the intimidation and one of them got shot by a female copper...and as a result "It's On!". Did she not know she was not meant to dance back? This is a lot like the MacQuarie Fields conflagration in Oz in 2005, when a young boy stole a car, and took his WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-88151111892309052872007-10-21T15:42:00.000-07:002007-10-21T15:58:21.760-07:00Yes there was an Election Debate last night but......but I did not watch as I am a devotee of quality teevee and watching an earwax eating man blather about "working families" is not quality teevee. He eats his own earwax and this revoltingness has made it in to the press now.There is only one kown antidote to the deadly poison of a disgusting video and that is to wash to your eyes with a real WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-58667828237536257142007-10-21T05:46:00.000-07:002007-10-21T05:49:56.610-07:00Ah, Hitchens.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-4297401349708616452007-10-20T17:29:00.000-07:002007-10-20T17:39:53.285-07:00No Pizza for You, Mafia ScumBriefly, Palermo foccacceria, in business for ever, feeds Lucky Luciano a lot when he is doing his mafioso thing in the 30s and 40s, then gets hit on in the noughties for protection money and stands up against it, hiring a lawyer with real balls, Stefano Giordano, to take the scum to court. Natch the lawyer has had death threats. Glad to report, natch he is not backingWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-70063585496704024722007-10-20T17:16:00.000-07:002007-10-20T17:18:45.395-07:00He eats his own ear waxYou cannot vote for a man to be the leader of Oz when he eats his own ear wax!WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-75839032909086159452007-10-20T16:35:00.001-07:002007-10-20T16:45:42.238-07:00First you buy it, then you wait a year for a half-rebateJust saw the insufferable Wayne Swan, putative treasurer to be, talking up the ALPs this-time-around-nanny-statism of funding half a cheap laptop but only for families.Amemba the last election when Latham introduced his "Real Aloud Australia" idiot polic of making parents read to kids?Well this is the same patronising nonsense, only now withWBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-86445078025763712302007-10-20T16:18:00.000-07:002007-10-20T17:40:20.264-07:00MerdaJust, for Christ's.....oh, for...urgh. Can it possibly actually happen?How does WndRoseHotel manage to sound so sanguine about it? Must be plenty vino coursing through his veins to keep him calm. Disperazione. I think youse get it.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-58264017688951160172007-10-19T16:33:00.000-07:002007-10-19T17:12:16.794-07:00"It's the stupidity, economists"Hmmmm. That Steyn. He makes you think, like.But I do maintain the reason for "partners" rather than just plain old marriages is because of lawyers. Bear with me here. Lawyers, you see, love to craft new rights and one favorite is the de facto hetero sexual couple, too lazy, cheap and godless even to hire a $50 celebrant to marry 'em, getting all the same property, WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967588.post-15211881286904928052007-10-16T16:47:00.000-07:002007-10-16T16:52:02.239-07:00Well Done, AnnabellThat's Annabell Kiddybody, writing with some wit. Noice.WBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977032562177889822noreply@blogger.com0