Physio notes.

My physiotherapist, last night, decided that the regular beating she was inflicting were not having the desired result of fixing my neck. As a result, she moved on to the Rack.

Really. I had a go last night in traction for 15 minutes. A strap went around my chin and the base of my skull, and then got pulled taut, and fifteen minutes later the machine beeped and let go.

It felt ... interesting in a less than immediately good way, and I think I walked out of the clinic an inch taller than I walked in. For most of the rest of the evening I felt like one of the Kaminoans from Star Wars.

My neck seems a little better today. We'll see how it goes.

Alan Jones is a viscious thug, but Howard still loves him.

John Howard thinks that Alan Jones is a fine broadcaster, representative of most Australians. Which says much more about Ratbastard Johnny than it does about that frothing megalomaniac Jones. Despite Alan having, quite clearly, stated that Muslims and Lebanese are not 'Australians', then exhorting 'Australians' to go and beat up those dirty rapist brown bastards en masse. Howard thinks that Alan "would never make prejudicial comments."

"Anyone who knows me knows I've never encouraged violence or brutality in anything ... and I did the exact opposite, but our defences counted for nothing," Mr Jones told his listeners.

One excerpt Jones read from a listener on December 7, 2005 recommended that bikie gangs confront ``Lebanese thugs'' at the Cronulla railway station.

Because, of course, reading out a message saying "let's all meet at Cronulla and beat the shit out of any brown person we see", and following with "oh, that's a little harsh. I wouldn't go that far. Oh my stars and whiskers, oh dear, no," that's neither vilification nor exhortation to violence.

"I have a message here which reads: "Lets go and bash Lebs coz they deserve it coz theyr all rapist bastards lets take back OUR beaches," and I can really understand where these guys are coming from, they speak to a lot of reasonable people, " but don't actually hit anyone, because it's a little naughty, you know *wink*

And just when my disgust reaches peak, Rudd goes and joins in the praise, fearing -- presumably -- to lose the ignorant redneck fuckwit vote. Every so often I have faint hopes that Rudd will show signs of being an actual human being, and then he goes and proves he can suck up to the lowest common denominator with just as much aplomb.


Actually, I just thought of something which is even worse. This quote from Ratbastard:

"I don't think he's a person who encourages prejudice in the Australian community, not for one moment but he is a person who articulates what a lot of people think."

What that says, when you dissect it is that Alan Jones hasn't encouraged prejudice, but merely reflected the prejudice already there. In other words, Jones cannot possibly have made the situation worse, because real Australians are all prejudicial, racist and violent already.

The really sad thing is that the Cronulla riot showed that the Ratbastard might be right.

I think I'm going to go home and get drunk.