Part Four of Sir Roger Migently’s exposition of Australian values as revealed during his epiphany on The Mountain…

The Migently Mountain Manifesto   Australian values have lately been enthusiastically asserted by some Australians and Sir Roger has been much impressed – in much the same way a washed-up prize fighter feels the repeated impressions of his opponents’ fists in his guts.   These assertions of “Australian values” tend to be energetically debated in [...]

From today’s New York Times: Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen The Obama administration’s secret legal memorandum that opened the door to the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen, found that it would be lawful only if it were not feasible to take him alive, [...]

  The Pacific solution didn’t work. We know that. It made too many people go mad (unless, of course that’s the point and Tony Abbot is in favour of that).   Here’s an idea! While Julia and Tony are cat-fighting over who can think up the most brutal, vicious and inhumane treatment of people seeking [...]

Can’t help drawing a parallel between Jon Stewart’s speech and Obama’s at the Democrat Convention when Al Gore was nominated for President.

Jon Stewart at his outraged and outrageous best in this must-watch report:

How about a bit of slippery language? Forget that cynical “Pacific Solution” with the promise of Peace and Closure. Now it’s the “Regional Protection Framework”

Well, the Lego-haired Gillard has been whistling the dingo dogs. Of course, when you whistle the dogs these days you have to be slightly more refined.

But which mental disease? … probably all of the below …

America’s Tea Baggers want to know what we think of them. Have fun with this poll!

in frustration the Vatican has proved Godwin’s Law – earlier than one might have expected, really, which shows just how rattled Ratz and the Vaticannibals are

Less than two weeks after converging upon the site of a devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake, American anthropologists have confirmed the discovery of a small, poverty-stricken island nation, known to its inhabitants as “Haiti.”

James A. Fitzpatrick on Copenhagen in 1937 and “the manners and customs of a people who have contributed much to the stability and progress of the white race”

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

We certainly think that the “subservience to authority, the belief that ‘important people… blokes in an official capacity’ deserve a little bit of respect’ ” is more alive and more hearty than ever and that this is probably the most dangerous characteristic of middle Australian culture for a healthy democracy.