Take them at their word

I “love” the way that my Latte sipping friends want to insist that Islam and its nutters do not want to conquer the world . Mainly because it seems to me to be a valiant imitation of the ostrich’s defensive head burying behaviour. The fact of the matter is that among the motivated believers  a [...]

Double or denial

KEVIN Rudd is preparing to double the size of Australia’s Christmas Island detention centre in a stark confirmation that his government expects a continuing flood of asylum-seekers from Sri Lanka.
The multi-million-dollar upgrade, sparked by a sharp increase in boatpeople arrivals in the past month, is expected to lift the facility’s capacity to as much as [...]

“They don’t need to integrate if they don’t want to or find it difficult.”

While the world burns under the pressure of mass migration the Latte sippers chill out believing in a “we are all one ” paradigm that will be laughed at (with more than a few tears) by the future generations who will face a world where  Europeans become a minority people  in their own countries…

How did [...]

Brother Number One proves that he is a “lite” version of John Howard

There is no doubt at all that Brother Number One has been caught on the back foot on the issue of illegal boat arrivals. His obvious softening of the treatment of the status of “asylum seekers” who arrive here illegally is a most obvious “pull factor” that encourages both the people smugglers and their clients. [...]

How else can they buy their way into Green heaven?

The idea of public protests has a very long pedigree, and in my life time I have seen and taken part in protests and street marches against the excesses of the Bjelke-Petersen government here in Queensland.
I was by no means obsessed with the issues but it was the thing to do and at the time [...]

Smiling wryly

When I heard Brother Number One  utter these words on the radio yesterday I could not suppress a very wry smile:

“I make absolutely no apology whatsoever for taking a hard line on illegal immigration to Australia,”

I smiled because this little statement says to me that he must now realise just what a political  demon he [...]

Geography and Empire

Leftist orthodoxy claims that colonialism and the age of European empires was a universally bad thing. This is an argument that has never rung true to me. I have always thought that, overall the British empire was actaully good for many of the parts of the world that were once coloured pink on the global [...]

Ahoy me hearties

Imagine, if you will, that you are a member of the Greens who has absolutely no interest in the environment. You have written many times complaining about the attempts to stop file sharing, you rile at any attempt to censor the internet. Your fondest desire is to see a kind of socialist utopia where [...]

128 boats and nearly 1500 people Vs seven boats and 161 people last year

This topic is a good example of how any sort of bad news can eventually become so mundane that it gets right under everyone’s radar. If we are entirely honest with ourselves we would have to admit that upon  hearing about another boat arriving we would be hard pressed to do a full 360 eye [...]

9/11, not forgotten

With due deference to the international dateline I publish this here today, as we say on Anzac day:
Lest We Forget
In remembrance Comrades

“Gender verification tests revealed evidence that she has no womb or ovaries and carries both male and female sexual organs”

Despite what some people think the gender of any individual can not be chosen by that individual in any meaningful way. If this report is correct then the young person is suffering from one of the intersex conditions that makes determining gender difficult with out medical testing.

THE athletics world was left reeling last night by [...]

Bjorn Lomborg makes sense.

To the AGW truthers like our own “PKD” the science is solved and the truth is out there. My, oh my, does he get grumpy when the major flaws in his argument are demonstrated. However a much more sensible approach can be found from people like Bjorn Lomborg who is quite critical of the cap [...]

Warministas; reinventing the past in their own image

I really wonder just how some of the nutty stuff that is written to support the Warminista liturgy gets past any sort of academic scrutiny. Because if this piece is to be believed ancient peoples were responsible for altering the climate as a consequence of slash and burn agriculture.

William Ruddiman, the paper’s lead author and [...]

Some people and their faiths

I have been watching, with some interest, the way that the latest terrorist cell arrests have been unfolding and especially the reactions to those arrests from the usual suspects. Many on the left seem to be in total denial that there is even a problem or that the problem has its genesis in the faith [...]

They are still here….

This looks very much like a “good save” by our police and security services and even though the target was our military personal (generally considered “legitimate targets” in a war) I wonder just how many of our latte sipping friends will insist that the sort of atrocity that it is alleged that these conspirators were [...]