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You Are a Threat to US Security
Boulleda HadjIf you can use a computer, you are a threat to the United States elissa Hoffer is one of those lawyers intentionally slandered in January by Charles Stimson, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, the subject of our...
Oh Pastor Ted, What a Jock You Are!
There’s a Lotta Love in This Place S House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s little girl, Alexandra Pelosi, has made a doco, Friends of God, starring Crystal Methodist, Pastor Ted Haggard, about evangelical christians. And quite an eye-opener it is....
Herald Accuses Values Australia of ‘Rhetoric’
Nothing whatever to do with the Government Values Australia does not want to pretend any false modesty. It is delighted to have been mentioned by its favourite page in the Sydney Morning Herald: Stay in Touch. We think that most people are probably like George...
Men and Whitlam of Australia
On Your Knees Men and Whitlam of Australia . . . he decision we will make on December 2 is a choice between the past and the future, between the habits and fears of the past and the demands and opportunities of the future. There are...
Migently Mountain Manifesto: 2
6. hen we swear to something, that is kind of a proper commitment. The word “swear” comes from an ancient word that means “to speak”; to say words. In one of the most savagely beautiful and exceptional works of fiction, the Book of John...
Joan Sutherland and Me
Vale Saint Joan ir Roger wishes to make a special personal note of his sadness at the death, of La Stupenda, Dame Joan Sutherland; the loss of one of the truly greats. Her career properly began when “she won a two-year scholarship for...
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via GIPHYA Rare and Precious Thing We interrupt this pre-recorded segment to bring you an impromptu message from our sponsor. ir Roger has been touched by the loyalty of one of his longterm readers and a fellow-blogger to muse on the...
Why the Long Face?
Joining the Elite ow do you think Australia’s economy is going, compared to the rest of the world? Sir Roger wonders because some rainbow-lovers say it’s magnificent and some shrill hurricane chasers say we’re going to hell in a handbasket and doom...
Just Checking our MASSIVE STUFF-UP
A note about the Haneef debacle/fallout... he police and the government — notably Howard, Andrews, Downer and Ruddock (all of whom would have purple dye on their hands if they stole a briefcase instead of hijacking the brief on Haneef )...
Drool Britannia
Unemployed Man Weds Fashion Accessory Buyer oday we celebrate the marriage of an unemployed¹ man, the son of a barking madman and a kindergarten teacher, to a fashion accessory buyer, the daughter of a flight attendant and a...
You can be charged for what you did today…
So here’s what Haneef was formally charged with on 14 July 2007, as revealed by Tony Jones on Lateline on Tuesday night: “...intentionally providing resources to a terrorist organisation consisting of persons including Sabeel Ahmed and Kafeel Ahmed, his...
A Moron in a Hurry – Part 1
Send out the Pages WARNING: POLITICAL DISCUSSION PROTECTED BY SECTIONS 7 AND 24 OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION. S ir Roger (or at least his amanuensis) was harried recently by the legal department of a minor university which happens to accommodate a “controlled...
You Are a Threat to US Security
Boulleda HadjIf you can use a computer, you are a threat to the United States elissa Hoffer is one of those lawyers intentionally slandered in January by Charles Stimson, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, the subject of our...
Mouldy Media Pop-Tart
ust a question: Why do we have to keep putting up with fatuous, mouldy, media pop-tart, Gerard Henderson, spouting all over the place? This pompous irrelevance who ludicrously has laid claim to being in the political centre, whose...
Lord Roger Migently?
Back to the Regency Future ir Roger Migently, as you must surely realise, has been quite unwell. He has been managed like an unlucky skier in an induced coma these many months since September 2013, when the floor of the Migently Mansions...
Now LOOK ….
Not this bloody time W e have held it in for a very long time but today was the last straw. For seeming ages journalists have been describing people who defend themselves against legal allegations, or who mount arguments against legal charges, as...
A Beautiful Thing
US Policy Adviser redefines “Beauty” We have noticed a report that Kenneth Adelman has claimed that what the Coalition has done in Iraq is “a beautiful thing”. And we agree whole-heartedly. It’s a pity so few people now are able to see it this way. It just takes a...
Sprezzatura – the New Cool
Only Connect! S ir Roger has been somewhat troubled of late that persons of his (ahem) “vintage” have become quite out of step with the young’uns these days. Not in terms of worldliness, because after all his generation have seen a lot more world (times Time), with...
Rude Britannia & Australian Values
How Very Dare You! Yes, we know, the British are the world leaders in "la politesse" and "cortesia" (ironically*). They will never be impolite to anyone. They would never call a black person a "nig-nog". Not to their face. They would never call an Australian a...
Money money money?
'In my dreams I have a plan' lthough we are proud of our reputation for being disreputable, confusing, harmful, misleading and offensive it is quite clear that all the best blogs have serious posts by Nicholas Gruen or Peter Martin, Fred...
Why Turnbull is Wrong
Isslikadreemcumtroo urnbull is wrong because it is foolhardy to stand between 20 million people and a shitload of money. (Thanks Paul) Turnbull is wrong because he thinks that there is any debate to be won about whether the pile of money...
Sir Roger Gets Ogd
es. It’s true! After everything he has said, Sir Roger’s scepticism has been swept away by his discovery of a new, an alien, religion. And who would not want to be part of such powerful theatre, such wondrous ceremony, gorgeous ritual and...
Hypocrite, Sociopath or Fool?
Almost Human? n her column explaining 'the key to understanding the Prime Minister,' Anne Summers offers an explanation for the Groveller General’s attitude towards Iraq, terrorisim and Barack Obama. But it is just not good enough, says our...
‘I’m Sir Roger and I’m Fucked’
This is not for you eally. We just want to acknowledge ourselves privately but publicly (it makes sense to us, anyway). It’s not meant to be onanistically self-congratulatory, except in the sense that we have achieved some things and...
Every Cloud Has a Saliva Lining
After Pavlov [Apologies to the source of the original of this image whose provenance we do not know.]
The Nation That Hangs Together
The Nation that Hangs Together Hangs Together The glorious lynching of Saddam was not meant to be “unprofessional", and "disgusting". No, no! According to Iraq’s National Security Adviser, the noted humanitarian, Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie: “This was supposed to be a...
Telemarketing Counter-Script
Now there is a way to get your own back ost people (92% according to one report) perceive commercial telephone calls as a violation of privacy. Have you ever received an unwelcome unsolicited marketing phone call? Have you ever wished you...
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