Today, Sir Roger celebrates his 1,000th post in 1277 days – or exactly 3½ years – since the inaugural, ungainly, embarrassing post – Minister von Rock Opens Australian Refujesus Exhibition – on 15 October 2006. Since then he has improved marginally, been mentioned in the Press and on numerous websites, and been [...]

It’s enough to make you want to just give up and forget it all and look at some funny cat video.

when you know you’re confronted by a pile of shit – politicians’ lies, corporate propaganda and media trivia for example – it’s refreshing when there’s someone who has the guts and the intellect to name it for what it is

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John Howard is against a Bill of Rights and that’s enough for us. The little shit has always been so wrong that anything he is against is certain to be right

a cold and heartless bastard in whose presence blood congeals, water freezes, flowers wither and die; a wraith who sucks the breath out of the mouths of babies

“Yes, I was the Torture Master and I think it was good. Torture is good, and hey, let’s forget about all those “high ideals” that America used to wrap around itself. It was all pretend and you know it.

It was, inevitably, never a question of if but of when Barack Obama would buckle and capitulate to the power machinery of the Washington political and military establishments. Sadly, the answer is a shockingly short time.

Mad. They’ve gone mad. Quite mad.

my hopes have leapt in the last few days. There is a new spirit abroad in the US of, not quite forgiveness, perhaps, but of, I don’t know, overlooking crimes for the greater good.

The concept of “putting the past behind us” and “focusing on the future”, using our energies on “fixing the country” rather than on “grudges” is all smoke and mirrors and spin designed to get the criminals – people who can on the evidence be prosecuted for breaking the law – who happen to be politicians, apparatchiks or well-connected politically – off the hook.

What are we going to do with our terror laws now that terrorism no longer exists?

Our protection of those people from murderous religious madmen and murderous greedy corrupt warlords is the only possible way to justify the loss of Australian soldiers. But it now seems there is no reason for us to be there.

Shit, man, we tap-danced every morning between 0800 and 0805 and sacrificed a bunny rabbit at midnight every full moon and Australia wasn’t attacked either! Where’s our testimonial?

Gonzalez can’t get a job. Or a friend. Sarah Palin’s family honours Australia with birth of new grandson.