December 23, 2005
Merry XMAS All!
Ho, Ho, Ho.
See you all in January...
Well...I thought you wouldn't notice...
Here's the downside to living in a culture where women are required to cover up their tempting forms:
An Egyptian man discovered on his wedding day that his fiancee of three years was a man who had been concealing his identity behind a veil. When Mr Shehata confronted his fiancee, he broke down and revealed that he was actually an 18-year-old man called Ahmed Abo Zeid.
Oy.
Here's the kicker:
Mr Abo Zeid, whose face was obscured to Mr Shehata by a niqab or burka (face veil) said he had intended to tell after they were married, and had hoped to convince Mr Shehata to consummate the marriage.
What the hell is that? It looks like a...
Nothing honey, it's nothing. Now kiss me again...
December 21, 2005
God, schmod, I want my monkey man!
In "The Hell?" news, we get this:
THE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.
Doomed to fail?
Not according to this story.
Lock up your wives and daughters...
December 17, 2005
Yes, yes, bad whitey and all that...
They're still going on about the riots at Cronulla, a couple of days ago, and opinion is divided on the cause.
The left has quite happily settled into beating up a few usual suspects: Howard, racist Anglos and...somewhat bizarrely...individualism.
Elsewhere, there's a good article by Michael Duffy on the moral preening of some over this issue.
Most interesting for me, is some stats, buried in this opinion piece:
Studies by Monash University's Bob Birrell of the most revealing test of immigrant integration, the marriage rate, showed that by the end of the '90s less than 10 per cent of second-generation marriages of people of European descent were to someone from their parents' country.
Much the same was true of immigrants from south and east Asia.
Only 6 per cent of Indians married within their ethnic group, as did only 18 per cent of Chinese.
In short, most immigrants, whatever their race, married Australians of other nationalities.
However, for the Lebanese, of whom most of marriageable age were Muslims, these figures were reversed.
No less than 74 per cent of Lebanese brides and 61 per cent of Lebanese grooms married within their own ethnic group.
Moreover, these figures had increased since the early '90s, when they were about six percentage points lower.
Similar point is made by this article.
In essence, this is a dangerous trend, mostly for the Lebanese community itself.
In the first half of the 1950s, Catholic Australians rarely intermarried with protestant Australians, and this certainly contributed to the "apartness" that a lot of Irish Catholic descended Australians felt.
Nowdays the Catholic/Protestant divide is not an issue at all.
Food for thought, certainly.
(More on Cronulla-related items from Tim Blair)
December 14, 2005
Next Stop - Baghdad
Planning a trip to the Middle East? National Lampoon has a handy guide.... including how to deal with suspected hijackers.
"If you can get one terrorist away from the fatalistic mentality of the Muslim pack, you can begin a dialogue," says hostage expert and psychologist Dr. Daniel Hoffstra. "Remind him that you are both merely men. Perhaps demonstrate that by quickly and discreetly showing him your well-circumsized penis. Tell him you share the same interests. Mention that you have just converted to Islam. Then, speaking soothingly, place both hands gently on the sides of the his head and snap his neck with a quick twisting motion."
(via A Yobbo's View)
December 13, 2005
There's no justice like angry mob justice!
Things were "oh so exciting" this week in Sydney when Sharks fans and Bulldogs fans converged to fight over who was the bigger group of violent wankers.
Put the lot of the dickheads behind bars, I reckon - from both sides.
Of course, dingbat lefties are already blaming the thing on racism, or John Howard, or George Bush, or Global Warming etc.... but lefties do that sort of thing all the time, and so can safely be ignored.
Sure there were bigots there - but not all of them were whiteys....
Joing in on the fun is Indymedia, coming up with a truly original theory - Yep, you guessed it:
Gah.
Moving right along, here are some intelligent contributions to the discussion from Tony Parkinson and Gerard Henderson in the Fairfax papers and retired detective Tim Priest at the Australian.
And there's even more at Silent Running, Tim Blair and A Yobbo's View.
UPDATE: Dumb CNN can't even get a basic headline right: Anti-Arab Rioters Smash Cars
Um...the rioters in that situation were Lebanese Muslims....how exactly are they "Anti-Arab"?
December 11, 2005
I imagine that was a fun life
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December 07, 2005
It's in the stars
I am a Capricorn.
(Also known as "Goat")
My Horroscope starts like this:
" Cruel, cold and heartless, the Capricorn has all the warmth of an iceberg in January. He is a tyrant at work and an inquisitor at home. " (Read more | Find yours)
I sound like such a nice guy...
December 05, 2005
Another Festivus Miracle!
Proving once and for all that Political Correctness has broken through the "irony" barrier and is now merrily going off in to the stratosphere, we get this story:
Islamic-relations forum director, Kuranda Seyit, told The Sunday Mail it was time for Australia to fall in line with places such as the UK, where councils have renamed Christmas "Winterval" and replaced references to Christmas on signage with the words "Festive" and "Winter".
"Australia is now so diverse and there are so many cultures and festivities, we need to acknowledge the need to be inclusive of our identity."
He expected his plan would insult some people, but urged a "step-by-step" approach.
"A word like Festive is a good word but the community should make an effort to come up with an alternative to Christmas. Schools will take a leading role in terms of political correctness. The younger generation will grow up and say 'it's not fair'."
It's a Festivus for the Rest of Us!
I can't wait for the Airing of Grievances - my first would be the craptacular names they've proposed as a replacement.
Why not "Krusty's Non Denominational Holiday Funfest"?
Eh? EH?
Oh, forget it.
....So, how is it people these mindboggling stupid get out of bed in the morning?
I mean, seriously, 95% of Australia is either Christian or non-Religious. So there's not a lot of "Oooh! Xmas offends me!" gimps running around.
Besides, Christmas is huuuuuge in Japan, and they have a rather puny 0.7% of their population confessing to be Christian.
So, to Mr Keyit? Get fucked.
UPDATE: In the festive vein, some other bloggers have come up with renamings of their own.
The only question is which alternative for Ramadan do you prefer?
Silentrunning's "Rama-lama-diet-dong", Currencylad's "Night Binge for Allah" or ed at Protein Wisdom's suggestion of "Slamadan", which he says will be "celebrated in conjunction with pro-wrestling"?
Merry Xmas anyway!
....uhh...sorry.
Happy Holidays it is.
Exterminate the clothing!
The BBC are such prudes, that they'd kill off this enterprising project:
Those readers who have ever wondered in an idle moment how a couple of Daleks would respond to the presence of three naked lesbians romping in their Mothership might recently have found the answer in the shape of a sci-fi smutfest entitled "Abducted by the Daleks".
Sadly, however, you'll have to wonder on because the BBC and the estate of Dalek creator Terry Nation have moved swiftly to pull the plug on the the trundling salt-cellars' intergalactic rumpy-pumpy.
Sounds kinky.
December 04, 2005
And Adam Knew Eve...
From RWDB we get this story:
A German Protestant youth group has put together a 2006 calendar illustrated with erotic scenes from the Bible.
The 12 re-enacted passages feature a bare-breasted Delilah cutting Samson's hair and a nude Eve offering an apple.
The Nuremberg-based group said they wanted to represent the Bible in a way that would entice young people.
Hey....sex sells.
"The Catholic Church. We've made a few....changes."
(props to whoever can get the Simpsons reference.)
Truly wonderful is the mind of child...
Early contender for "Gimp of the Year" in the Daily Telegraph Letters to the Editor.
How easy it is to be "sucked" in. First the Harry Potter books and now, sadly, the film promoting dangerous occult and pagan views, foul language, rebellion, war and murder. These are very dangerous to impressionable hearts and minds.
- Judith Bond, Glen Alpine.
Gee, I bet old Judith's a riot to be with.
(PS: Did anyone see any actual Pagan views in the books or movies? I mean, seriously, did Ron drop to his knees and praise mighty Baal? It must have been when I went to the toilet.)
Craptacular comic writer and Christian loon Jack Chick agrees with Judith.
Good Lord there are some nutters around.
December 02, 2005
Sanctimonious Piffle
I must say the ongoing sobfest throughout the media about Nguyen verged on the ridiculous today.
As usual, they were led by Fairfax - as the SMH devoted half of its front page to headers like this.
Come on people, the man was a convicted drug dealer. He knew the risks. Sure, you can argue the sentence was excessive, but....Jeebus...
...the man wasn't a hero.
Don't make him into a martyr.
Oh, and in all the "growing anger against the death penalty"...somehow, this seems to have been ignored.
AS THE last days of Nguyen Tuong Van's life slipped by, public sympathy for him diminished. A recent Morgan Poll found 47 per cent of Australians believed the Melbourne man should go to the gallows, compared with 46 per cent who said the death penalty should not be carried out. Seven per cent were undecided.
However, 57 per cent said if an Australian is convicted of trafficking drugs and sentenced to death in another country where the death penalty applies, the death penalty should be carried out, while 36 per cent believed it should not. Again, 7 per cent were undecided.
Don't you hate it when the public stubbornly refuses to go along with the script?