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Andrew Bolt was on Speaking in Tongues last night.
Honest to Goddess, he stated that Third-World Sweat Shops are a good thing, and that those who work in them should be thankful that they do (as opposed to being unemployed, or getting a living wage or living conditions fit for a dog, or human rights, or whatever).
His thesis was that Conservative politics are the real way to help the Poor and Underprivileged. Indeed, he implied that the bleeding-heart (lower-case 'l') liberals and Lefties actively harm the poor people they claim to want to help.
Father Bob asked him "So, what do you do?"
"Well," replied Andrew, "I donate to..."
"No, what do you do -- on the coalface, where I am every day."
Andrew didn't answer.
I love Father Bob.
Andrew continued by saying that conditions in Afghanistan (which he had visited recently) prove something or other.
Here's what I think conditions in Afghanistan prove:
When a country is bombed flat by a Superpower, has fanatical thugs (who were sponsored, trained, organised and otherwise encouraged by the other Superpower) rule it by banning anything not found in a paranoid schitzophrenic's interpretation of a 1300-year old (and badly edited) book, then is bombed flat again by that same other superpower, and has more, different thugs handed the country on a platter, who immediately return to the national pastimes of growing heroin and killing each other and everyone else who looks at them sideways, the only thing you can expect is that that country is comprehensively fucked, and unlikely to get better without a lot of effort, and not at all in the short term, like, say, a generation or five.
Christmas/Yule/Hannukah/Gregorian New Year was good. Saw Mum (hi, Mum! Did you have much trouble on the highway getting through Great Western and Stawell?). Saw Dad's mother. Saw other family. Saw (some) friends (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tooticky, usuakari, we should have dinner or something). Mostly kept out of the heat. Weathered Abbi's tantrums. Got some nice presents. People seemed to like the presents I got them.
Generally worked out OK.
Andrew Bolt was on Speaking in Tongues last night.
Honest to Goddess, he stated that Third-World Sweat Shops are a good thing, and that those who work in them should be thankful that they do (as opposed to being unemployed, or getting a living wage or living conditions fit for a dog, or human rights, or whatever).
His thesis was that Conservative politics are the real way to help the Poor and Underprivileged. Indeed, he implied that the bleeding-heart (lower-case 'l') liberals and Lefties actively harm the poor people they claim to want to help.
Father Bob asked him "So, what do you do?"
"Well," replied Andrew, "I donate to..."
"No, what do you do -- on the coalface, where I am every day."
Andrew didn't answer.
I love Father Bob.
Andrew continued by saying that conditions in Afghanistan (which he had visited recently) prove something or other.
Here's what I think conditions in Afghanistan prove:
When a country is bombed flat by a Superpower, has fanatical thugs (who were sponsored, trained, organised and otherwise encouraged by the other Superpower) rule it by banning anything not found in a paranoid schitzophrenic's interpretation of a 1300-year old (and badly edited) book, then is bombed flat again by that same other superpower, and has more, different thugs handed the country on a platter, who immediately return to the national pastimes of growing heroin and killing each other and everyone else who looks at them sideways, the only thing you can expect is that that country is comprehensively fucked, and unlikely to get better without a lot of effort, and not at all in the short term, like, say, a generation or five.
Christmas/Yule/Hannukah/Gregorian New Year was good. Saw Mum (hi, Mum! Did you have much trouble on the highway getting through Great Western and Stawell?). Saw Dad's mother. Saw other family. Saw (some) friends (
tooticky, usuakari, we should have dinner or something). Mostly kept out of the heat. Weathered Abbi's tantrums. Got some nice presents. People seemed to like the presents I got them.Generally worked out OK.
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