I love the Hammah! What a great mind. He puts it where it's at.
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.
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Great piece.
Well done, Charlie. Hear. Hear.
A great ally is one that behaves as we SHOULD behave--such as in the "wants to live under sharia law" comment.
Unlike the Ozzies, in the US,even the politicians I like are reticent to call 'em like they see 'em and damn the polls that break every reaction down by ethnic type. Don't people realize that standing by one's convictions is its own defense when one's convictions are based on reality?
Then again, like Charles, I'm hot for Australian women, too, so maybe that's all there is to it. :)
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Bump, ping, whatever.
Sorry, there is a slight spelling error in your message, it is "Aussies", not "Ozzies". And sorry, I am already taken.
Wonderful.
Spot On!
I love the Hammah! What a great mind. He puts it where it's at.
To be fair to Australia, Canada's mother was British, but its father was French. That only makes them half siblings.
The French bastard abandoned Canada before it was born, and left it to its mother to raise. France went on to get its butt kicked in several wars, until it got tired of running around with every little whore in Africa. After the last big war (WWII) France just stuck to screwing its friends with benefits, and occasionally tormenting a couple more of its adopted children in the Pacific. France wasn't too concerned about its adopted kids though... France is pretty sure that it wasn't the father, no matter that they all speak French... Kind of.
Lately France has been getting tired of the heterosexual scene, and for the last few decades its been looking for strong, abusive men. For a little while, during the 1990s, France wanted to spice up its love life and revived a few of its umm... explosive phalluses. Surprisingly, they still worked.
However, the last few years have been rather slow for France. Its social life has really been off kilter since its last lover, a strong man named Saddam Hussein, was arrested in a police action by Uncle Sam. For a few months France tried to play with its old flings in Africa, but they weren't too happy to see France again.
To make things even worse, France got some bad news this year. Apparently they have a sexually transmitted disease they got from some of their flings in Africa, and a couple more from Saddam Hussein (that bastard). And to pile tragedy on top of irony - France got AIDS. That's an autoimmune disorder that destroys you from within. It is an acronym for Angry Islamic Delinquents Syndrome.
It has been a rough few years since 2003 for France.
Canada however is doing somewhat better. Its "fatherless" childhood created some gender identity issues, but it seems to be slowly getting over them. As for mother Britain... well, she's still the grand old lady with a sharp tongue and a ready whip. But in her old age, I suppose she's slowed down a bit. She has some fumigating to do to get rid of some FLEAS, and if she's not careful, those FLEAS might be carriers for AIDS. Oh, FLEAS is short for Faithless, Lethal, Extremists of Arabic Stock.
If you want to see something funny, to get a little Japanese girl upset, ask her if she's Korean.
Now gentlemen and lady, this is an ally!
The Australians remind us of our cowboy past, all right--except that they have fixed things so that they don't allow themselves to have guns anymore. That act of self-castration has always puzzled me.
Australia, Australia, Australia, we love ya!
Or vice-versa.
Great new mascot idea for the Democrats here in the US. They should drop the donkey and take on the symbol of a sniveling grub.
Thanks for the post. I love this guy.
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