Posted on 06/23/2006 2:05:03 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: "I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard."
For that, the good woman was ordered removed from the House, if only for a day. She might have escaped that little time-out if she had responded to the speaker's demand for an apology with something other than "If I have offended grubs, I withdraw unconditionally."
God, I love Australia. Where else do you have a shadow health minister with such, er, starch? Of course I'm prejudiced, having married an Australian, but how not to like a country, in this age of sniveling grubs worldwide, whose treasurer suggests to any person who "wants to live under sharia law" to try Saudi Arabia and Iran, "but not Australia." He was elaborating on an earlier suggestion that "people who . . . don't want to live by Australian values and understand them, well then they can basically clear off." Contrast this with Canada, historically and culturally Australia's commonwealth twin, where last year Ontario actually gave serious consideration to allowing its Muslims to live under sharia.
Such things don't happen in Australia. This is a place where, when the remains of a fallen soldier are accidentally switched with those of a Bosnian, the enraged widow picks up the phone late at night, calls the prime minister at home in bed and delivers a furious, unedited rant -- which he publicly and graciously accepts as fully deserved. Where Americans today sue, Australians slash and skewer.
For Americans, Australia engenders nostalgia for our own past, which we gauzily remember as infused with John Wayne plain-spokenness and vigor.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Anyone who is critical of the Canadian administration is immediately attacked by the full collective force of the Canadian posse.
This is a Conservative web site, in much the same way that Jim Robinson explained to everyone a few months ago that this site supports George W. Bush.
We Canadian Conservatives hope FReepers will support Stephen Harper, and the new Conservative Canadian government.
Fortunately, they could also be known as the gang that couldn't shoot.
I am not trying to shoot anyone. I come here to learn.
Border security?
Why I Love Australia (Krauthammer)
Loney says camp closing because of his homosexuality
Tourism Commission Looks to Woo Gay Couples to Canada
Defining Judaism down
Canadian Conservative MP Calls Christian Political Activists “Taliban” and “Flowers of Evil”
Canada slams \\\"ignorant\\\" US comments on security
Why are these the threads on which you've made the most posts?
With everything that Free Republic has to offer, I do see an agenda.
I don't think so!
Almost since you joined Free Republic, you've been on a mission.
You never mentioned which State or Province you reside in.
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"Almost since you joined Free Republic, you've been on a mission."
Does it never occur to you that maybe I just think I am right. Why is it so difficult for you to concede that Canada has a soft international image? Or, why can't you dispute that point rather than constantly attacking my character or motives?
I concede that you think you're right.
Good night.
You're scrambling, Snow-boy and are making the bigger fool of yourself for your definitive craven coward's need to drag your Euro-weinied bover-booted bully-boy gang along.
Here's my grand misère [Little FRoggy-boy Lingo for you there] picture of me with the maker of your rules.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1651473/posts?page=214#214
Your move I believe?
"I concede that you think you're right."
That is a start, thank you.
"Here's my grand misère [Little FRoggy-boy Lingo for you there] picture of me with the maker of your rules."
So help me God, I laughed so hard I thought I was going to piss myself.
<< I concede that you think you're right. >>
You are Right, spatso and are also Truthful.
And that makes it an impossibility that you will ever be understood by a native of the insignifigant few acres of ice and snow to the north in which the first word with which every kindergarten kid is indoctrinated is "duplicitous."
Explaining yourself to a subject of that sorry socialist state: -- in which envy-motivated, hesperophobically-hatred-engined and rage-driven America hatred is sucked up with mother's milk and has long, especially since the time of their traitor, Trudeau, been institutionalized -- is about as useful as using English and an FM transmitter to send signals to foreigners able to communicate only in Urdu and to receive only short-wave transmission.
What is the U.S. an older, fatherless sibling? or were both of our parents from the British Empire?
<< "Could not resist making the insinuation that Canada is not a real ally."
I find it strange, a writer for the Washington Post with strong Canadian ties from his childhood makes the comparison between Australia and Canada. Another poster writes about Canada's "gender identity" issues and you get upset with me. Do you not think your anger is with yourself and your powerlessness to change your soft international image. >>
Profound. You really have those guys figgered, spatso. No wonder they hate you, ignore your ideas, refuse to confront and/or to debate the point of any of your posts -- and ping their whole gang to feeding frenzied froth and foam flecked fling themselves upon your person.
One may even claim that while Britain was our mother, God is our father, and that He has been with us every step of the way since we left Britain's skirtfolds.
I have been pondering about moving myself & family to New Zealand.
New Zealand is the number 1 or 2 most anti-American countries in the English-speaking world. Let me quote from a New Zealand blogger David Farrar:
It is of course absolutely legitimate to object to the policies of the current US Government. But too many Kiwis really despise the US regardless of who is in Government there - they see it as the most evil country and as a bigger threat to the world than Al Qaeda etc. People on this blog have even commented that the world would be a better place without the US.
For my part I actually agree with Winston Peters when he said something like if the world is to have a sole super-power, he would rather it is the United States than any other country.
<< I have this warm fuzzy feeling that after you finish with them they may actually decide they like me. Indeed, I think they may have all decided to watch tv or go to bed early tonight. >>
Probably. Unless they cotton on to the twinkle in my eye. But either way they'll dust off their collectivized hatreds and hop into their American-owned Japanese car company built-in-America cars and RVs and come south again tomorrow to fill their gas tanks and buy American milk, butter, bread, groceries and outlet-center clothing, shoes, appliances and luggages, leaving those places parking lots littered with the detritus of their passing by and with the packaging of all the great American goods they'll all smuggle back to otherwise superior in aboot every imaginable way C-eh?-N-eh?-D-eh!
Eh?
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