Polics In a Ten Gallon Hat
I sense a certain inspiration at work in this Australian campaign ad for Bob Katter:
Compare to the similarly-hatted and always ALL CAPS DALE PETERSON:
This bodes well, my friends. GUNS HORSES HATS CROCODILES ON THE LOOSE.
Categories: Politics
Sniffle XLXI
Finally had a moment to watch this election night video Brett McS left in my comments the other day:
Wayne Swan (“The Hapless”) is Federal Treasurer, which is the equivalent of the US Treasury Secretary (but with somewhat more policy setting power, relatively speaking). Michael Kroger is (or was last time I looked) president [...]
Categories: Politics
Australia Had a What Now?
Um, I knew I’ve been busy and sick and readying a new house and planning a kitchen remodel and a few other things besides, but did I really miss a whole election?
Wot, no aussie election coverage? Well, OK, we’re not that important. But, very good result! Tony Abbott (my fav) looks like being [...]
Categories: Politics
The Aborigines Might Have a Point About All That Being-Robbed-of-Their-Culture Stuff
Indigenous Australians in traditional costume:
Modern white lady hoping to win a beauty pagent in “traditional costume”:
Curtsy: Rueful Red.
Categories: Entertainment
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXL
Curtsy: Brett McS.
Update: Brett sent this to me THREE WEEKS AGO! How did this NOT GET PUBLISHED?! Why is it STILL IN MY DRAFTS?!?!!?
Categories: Politics
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXIX
27b/6 – “yeah thats not what I was looking for at all.”
From: David Thorne Date: Monday 21 June 2010 10.28am To: Shannon Walkley Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poster Dear Shannon, It’s a design thing. The cat is lost in the negative space. [...]
Categories: Catblogging
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXVIII
Besides it being a serious and ESSENTIAL question, RC2 makes me laugh:
Wheat & Weeds – Oz Left Rudderless
Rudd resigns, ninme/wheatandweeds blog corridor breathlessly awaits explanation/assessment from on the scene correspondent Brett McS.
Categories: Politics
Aussie Angels
AP:
SYDNEY — In those bleak moments when the lost souls stood atop the cliff, wondering whether to jump, the sound of the wind and the waves was broken by a soft voice. “Why don’t you come and have a cup of tea?” the stranger would ask. And when they turned to him, his [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
While Aussies Have Been On the Hunter Valley Wine
They had to do something with all that lager…
Telegraph – ‘Drunk’ parrots baffle vets as they fall out of trees in Australia
Update: “The sad toll on the innocents,” hahaha.
Categories: Science and Nature
Cultural Crisis Unfolding in Oz!
Telegraph – Australians ‘don’t give a XXXX’ as they abandon beer for wine
Beer consumption in Australia has dropped to a 60-year-low as the younger generation abandons the “amber nectar” in favour of wine.
Oh noes!
Categories: Food
Anzac Day (+2)
Aussies Saving the World, One Uranium Mine At a Time
Brett McS reports that the Climate Skeptics Party is looking for a slogan. He favours “Aussies Saving the World,” which I’ve improved on slightly. Any others?
Categories: Politics
China: Just In Time For Earth Day
Telegraph – Australia to prosecute over Chinese ship’s Barrier Reef shortcut
Those responsible for a Chinese ship that crashed on an illegal route at the Great Barrier Reef, leaking tonnes of oil, will be prosecuted, Australia said on Sunday.
It’s a good thing a couple people turned their lightbulbs off the other day. Cuz, you [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
I’m Finding This Very Wearying Today
The Australian – Menace in mad march of the thought police, by Janet Albrechtsen
THE dark spectre of illiberalism is slowly poisoning Western liberal democracies. You won’t hear about it from much of the left-liberal press. It is part of the problem and its silence only confirms that basic liberties integral to Western liberal [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Australian Climate Skeptic Speaking Tour Correspondent Brett McS Reporting!
I’m just giving up now. There was no way I was going to get anything done today and tomorrow I get to go on a quick 2-night trip home! Woohoo!
So for today’s post, as all you ninmates are doubtless aware, Lord Monckton is on tour in Australia and Aussie Brett McS was on the [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
