never apologize.....it's a sign of weakness.
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 ...
Fosters always does come in such memorable containers. Good beer, too.
The other poster actually had some insight and presented it in a humorous way.
On the other hand, after watching your posting history
with its fixation on homosexuality and denigrating Canadians,
I have come to conclude that you are a flaming newbie disruptor,
a vacuous attention whore, a pimple on the butt of FR and a probable troll.
You confuse my disdain of you for anger.
And are loaded for bear. Buck, slug, buck, slug, slug. Mrmmm...
Stop insulting my country, or we'll go Vimy Ridge or Kapyong on you.
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?
One of the reasons liberals detest GWB, and for that matter Canada's new PM, Harper, is that both call it like they see it. People are scared of politicians who say what they mean and mean what they say.
Australia, alone among allies, has stood by its English-speaking brethren in the UK and US at every turn.
never apologize.....it's a sign of weakness.
There are "oil cans", and then there are better looking ones...
Austrailia is great. I loved visiting there three years ago. I recommend everyone vacationing there. It is very worth it.
I absolutely love Australians and Australia. They are the only ones with any balls left.
“I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard.”
Seconded?
My goodness, you guys are easily agitated. I don't understand why your all so fragile. I did not think I said anything particularly new or insightful. I simply responded to an article and a particular post that came pretty close to confirming my own perspective on Canadian vigor on the international scene.
It seems curious how comfortable you are ganging up on me. But when you encounter a few other comments tending to affirm some of the things I may have implied you appear to react far too strongly to the situation. Perhaps you all need to calm down and ask yourself if Canada does in fact have an image that is soft.
<< Well done, but I don't think you should ping the Canadian Freepers, they are very touchy about their masculinity. >>
As well they might be after confronting the sad Truth that for the past 61 years "their" masculinity has been provided them, along with our blood and our treasure, by America and by our remaining True allies, Australia and Israel.
As has that of every Euro-peon, native and/or withersoever dispersed around the globe, every one of whom owes his life and liberty to America and to those heretoforementioned True Allies.
"As well they might be after confronting the sad Truth that for the past 61 years "their" masculinity has been provided them, along with our blood and our treasure, by America and by our remaining True allies, Australia and Israel."
I should warn you the Canadians are very touchy. They don't like to be challenged on their belief that they stand near the head of the class in terms of international adventure and support of the US.
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