Sexist politics

What do you think?

(I have to go to work!)

Weekend Sport Roundup - gutter splatter

Pickering nails it.

Well splained!

Excellent breakdown of the recent happenings in Aus Government at lolpolz.

***Oops, thanks to Nilk who sent me the link...***

Rudd calls a ballot for leadership 9am tomorrow

I must get to work early to listen to this on the radio...

Should be very interesting!

Julia had the doorstop leaving the rooms in parliament house. No comment except she is a contender.

She looked and sounded like she'd been sucking lemons...

Update:
Catallaxy has a transcript of Rudd's press conference from last night when he emerged from his office...

Bitter, old man. And nucking futz.

Keating.

Any sense he makes is swamped by his nonsense.

The Political Rooster

Butch the Rooster

John the farmer was in the fertilised egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets".... and eight or ten roosters, whose job was to fertilise the eggs.

The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time, so Farmer John bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so that John could tell, from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report, simply by listening to the bells. The farmer's favourite rooster was old Butch, and a very fine specimen he was, too. But on this particular morning, John noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!

John went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. But to Farmer John's amazement, Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. John was so proud of Butch, he entered him in the Boone County Fair and Butch became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result.... The judges not only awarded old Butch "The No Bell Piece Prize," but they also presented him "The Pulletsurprise," as well. Clearly Butch was a politician in the making: Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet, by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them, when they weren't paying attention?

Thanks to Wand.

Bill Leak in the Australian 2.1.10

Click here for more Bleak.

Click here for The Australian.

twits don't like Abbott

Gee. Too bad. I like him better than Turnbull and Hockey...

How old and from what demographic vote-wise would your average twitter be?

Sectarian clash?

Here's an example.

Reading on will show some of the code used to live by.

Though I wouldn't call it living.

Barbaric.

Hypocrisy and the war in Gaza

What about the fact that this war didn’t start on December 27? Since 2001, Hamas has been shooting rockets into Israeli cities. Not military installations, but cities. When Israel withdrew from every inch of Gaza in 2005, the rockets increased, not decreased. So for eight years Israeli cities were brutalised by Hamas rockets, but the media took notice only when Israel responded.

And when Israel did respond, people accused it of using disproportionate force. What do they want Israel to do? Would a “proportionate” response be to lob an Israeli rocket at a random Palestinian city for every rocket fired at an Israeli city? Would critics have Israel respond to a war crime with a war crime?

By Ben Carlill, On Line opinion.

On Line Opinion has a survey for Queenslanders.

This is just a quick reminder that our first poll of the year (which is on Queensland politics) is closing tonight at midnight. We've had a reasonable response so far, particularly given the time of year, but I'd like just a few more. If there is an early election, I'd like to be well-prepared
The poll is at:
http://polling.nationalforum.com.au/index.php?sid=39517&lang=en

Laughing with Steyn

As you do.

Thanks everso, Splice.

Vent here - OT Open Thread, or O/T Off Topic

There you go!

politics
religion
weather
news

Whatever you desire you can talk about.

It was particularly cold in the offices where I work thismorning. One of the senior academics was in the corridor and a colleague passed me rubbing her hands together and saying how cold it was.
I agreed and added "It's global warming, you know." The academic thought that was quite amusing.

This conservative makes a lot of sense

I've seen this around the blogs. I don't agree with everything, but plenty of it, even the stuff I don't agree with, makes sense.