Hypocrits and lunatics and twerps, oh my!

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First, an entrée to whet your appetite for narkiness:

NSW makes 'quantum leap' in infrastructure spending

And I believe it. If a government is going to spend money on something that can't be described as ‘pork-barrelling’, I fully expect any increase in expenditure to be the smallest increase possible.

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A question: why is it that when some dropkick self-proclaimed “Mufti” with seven followers and a chip on his shoulder says something mindbogglingly stupid, it is a direct reflection on the entirety of Islam, but when a bishop does so you can't say the same about Catholicism, let alone Christianity.

I mean, seriously, that's completely insane — and he is a bishop, officially ordained and backed up by the oldest theocratic state in the world, Vatican City. And if we were to make any wider allusions to the mental state of Roman Catholics, we would be castigated from one end of the letters page to the other. And rightly so.

But one tinpot dickhead in suburban Allah-knows-where says something much less insane (although still unpleasant), and the entire “Muslim community” is held responsible. Not even recognition of the difference between Sunni and Shi'a, yet. I mean, this Catholic Bishop said this stunningly stupid thing, why hasn't the Anglican Synod taken responsibility for condemning him and stripping him of power?

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For Gods' sake, call the election and SHUT UP!

‘"I defend all of those campaigns, they do provide information, the guidelines under which they're being conducted are the same guidelines that the former government had," he said.
[You remember, the guidelines which Howard spent so much time decrying as obscene and over-the-top at the time]

"I think it's perfectly legitimate to provide information."’
[Information about ‘how much we love you’, and ‘how much we've done for you’, and precisely how much you should be grateful to us. As well as our campaign to keep you scared of everything.]

For the love of all that's holy, John, call the damn election so I can vote you the hell out of my life.

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The democratically elected leader of a sovereign nation gave a talk at a University the other day. He was greeted in a somewhat less than civil manner.
By a hypocrit.

All you frothing lunatics out there, calm the hell down. Ahmadinejad is not what I would call a nice person either. I wouldn't particularly enjoy living in Iran any more than you would. BUT HE IS NOT HITLER!! He doesn't even come close.

You want mini-Hitlers to hate? Robert Mugabe, how's that for one. Or the Junta in Burma. (Aside: “Hoon-tah” dammit, not “Djun-tah"!!!1! ABC, I'm looking at you!)

Everyone who is buying into this hysterical bullshit about how EEEEEEVILL Ahmadinejad is, is drinking the Kool-Aid which is leading directly — do not pass go, do not collect $200 billion — to the invasion of Iran.

And when that goes pear-shaped, and it will, it will be at you that I will be pointing and calling out as having helped it happen.

Comments

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Actually, I think the way Columbia dealt with Ahmadinejad is a very good thing. They invited him to speak but didn't condone him. I think they should give George W. Bush exactly the same forum and the same courtesy.

Of course Ahmadinejad's not Hitler, any more than John Howard is Hitler, or George W. Bush is Hitler, (I've always wanted to work the phrase "John Howard is Hitler" into an internet post.;-)) any more than Hitler was Hitler. They are all populist politicians who use fear of the other and easy scapegoats to maintain control.

When any populist demagogue is treated with less than the respect he feels he deserves, it is a victory for intelligent discourse. I imagine that if Norman Gunston had been around to interview Adolf Hitler in 1933 the world might be a very different place.

Catholic Leaders

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We have our own idiotic catholic leader in Australia. His name is George Pell.

I am so happy he was banished to Sydney. We don't need that imbecile in Melbourne.

All imbeciles should be sent to Sydney. Sydney is for imbeciles.

-- mpp