MK’s Views - Down under on the right side

Daily Telegraph - A man who allegedly shot his former girlfriend at Star City Casino had been convicted of stalking her four years ago, a court has heard. Todd William Devaney, 37, was not brought up from the cells below Central Local Court this morning as he faced five charges arising from yesterday’s alleged shooting in Pyrmont, including attempted murder and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm. [snip]

Court paperwork revealed the alleged victim of yesterday’s shooting was Holly Graham, a fitness instructor at the Star City Casino’s gym, who Devaney had previous been found guilty of stalking in 2004. She had taken out an apprehended violence order against him at the time. [snip] Documents tendered to the court stated Devaney had a string of convictions for firearms offences, stalking and armed robbery dating back more than a decade.

This is the reality for stalking victims under a nation with strict gun control laws, if some slimeball decides to take an unhealthy interest in you and doesn’t really care whether you feel the same way then you’re pretty much hung out to dry. If you know that the fellow is a violent slimeball and is capable of violence, all you can do is tell the cops, go to court and get that worthless AVO (apprehended violence order), then you start whistling for some actual protection. Apparently she is much safer this way.

You will never be allowed to legally own a firearm to defend yourself when he comes looking for you, like this woman. The longer it takes for him to come after you, the lesser your chances of getting the state, no matter how well-meaning, to protect you. As you can see, the justice system failed this woman, the cops failed her, the gun control laws failed her. The only saving grace was the Lord made this fellow a crap shot, so she wasn’t fatally shot and killed, she got lucky. Thank you gun grabbers.

FOX News - Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley’s controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center. The women’s anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and pointy hats Friday for “Witches, clowns and sirens day,” the last of the group’s weeklong homage to Mother’s Day. “Women are coming to cast spells and do rituals and to impart wisdom to figure out how we’re going to end war,” Zanne Sam Joi of Bay Area Code Pink told FOXNews.com.

The group’s week of themed protests, which included days to galvanize grannies and bring-your-daughter-to-protest, appears to have done little to boost its flagging numbers. A FOX News camera, which has a 24/7 live shot of the recruiting center’s front door, recorded little action, and the gatherings have, until this point, been ill attended. [snip] Now, after three months of continual protest, their actions barely capture the attention of even the Marines at the recruiting center.

Capt. John Paul Wheatcroft said he’s unfazed by Code Pink’s antics. “They’re always in pink and wear funny things, half-shaved heads, one side with hair and the other one bald, yeah, I’m pretty much used to anything,” he told FOXNews.com. [snip] But if events this week are an attempt by anti-war protesters to remarket their cause, the Marine recruiters in Berkeley tell FOXNews.com that Code Pink’s presence outside their office has helped — not hindered — their mission.

“Ironically, it’s actually helped us by putting our name out. We’re now well known. And people know who we are, and where we are, and they come in to talk to us about enlisting. They’ve gotten us the publicity that we could’ve never afforded to pay for ourselves,” Wheatcroft told FOXNews.com. “Just in the last three weeks, 10 people came in looking to apply, looking to become Marine officers, and that’s much higher than normal,” he said.

MNF-Iraq - With security improving, local economies flourishing and community reconstruction underway, Iraqis who once fled their South Baghdad homes in fear are now returning to the villages they deserted. This is a good sign, said Maj. Mark Bailey, the officer in charge of the Multi-National Division – Center governance cell.

“Once people are convinced that security is good in their area, they come back,” said Bailey, who is with 401st Civil Affairs Battalion, attached to 3rd Infantry Division. “If they own a business, they re-open their business, which helps the economy.” Out of the approximate 18,700 Iraqis who left their homes, it is estimated that 10,450 have returned, according to MND-C records. Continue reading Iraqis Displaced from Homes Now Returning…

SMH - Police have arrested a man suspected of shooting a Star City casino worker this afternoon, briefly holding up a visit to the area by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The 25-year-old woman, who is understood to be a fitness instructor, was shot three times in the stomach and hip in the gym on level five of the Pyrmont complex in Sydney this afternoon. The man was carrying three guns, one an automatic pistol, said Inspector Lee.

Oh my godless, you mean there are bad people out there with mean, nasty guns, I thought everyone handed in their guns and was dealing with their violent urges by sitting in the lotus position and humming quietly. Somebody call a pollie, pen an angry letter to your local member, get them to pass tough new laws and call passionate press conferences condemning violence and weapons, that’ll do the trick and take all those nasties off the streets.

The incident caused Mr Rudd’s security staff to briefly delay his arrival at Fairfax Media’s new headquarters at One Darling Island, near the casino. Mr Rudd was officially opening the new media complex today.

Can somebody check whether Mr Rudd’s security staff carry any nasty guns, after all ‘working families’ aren’t allowed to carry any weapons to protect themselves in Australia so why should Mr Rudd be protected with violent, nasty, evil guns. Besides we know our gun control laws are working, so why would Mr Rudd need the protection of a gun? Sure we have the odd shooting, that woman who just copped the hot lead this afternoon will just have to take one for the team. I mean you don’t want to end up like America do you, where tens of thousands are being shot dead every day by those terrible rampaging guns, do you. You’re much safer for being defenseless people, just believe I tell you.

Daily Mail - And now, after all these years of our efforts to “retrain” men, up to and including ridiculing them, what have we really achieved? We have achieved a generation of women who still earn, as a national average, only 70 per cent of men’s wages, and who still do five hours of housework to every measly hour’s contribution from the man of the house. Yet we have also achieved a new generation of men who, worrying signs suggest, are turning into a bunch of sissies. So well done, ladies.

Take a look at your handiwork now. Appearance has become an obsession to men. What we started when we gave them their first style magazine is now a massively profitable publishing industry. Sales of male cosmetics are at an all-time high and women are being elbowed out of the queue for cosmetic surgery by lads desperate to have their chins tightened, their eye-bags removed or that vital breast reduction to get rid of their “man boobs”.

We begged them to weep; to show us their “feminine side”. Now we’re awash with Paul Gascoigne moments, enhancing nothing more than the share value of Kleenex, as the slightest hint of pressure induces collapse into girly tears, leaving us to pick up the pieces of their problems as well as our own. And worse is on the way. The latest casualty of our well-meaning efforts, research says, is a huge decline in male libido.

It’s not that they can’t have sex (we’ve got Viagra for that). No, it’s that they won’t have sex. Not interested. Can’t be bothered. One Relate counsellor, Nina Bryant, says that when she started 18 years ago, it was rare for a man to admit to a lack of interest in sex. “Now,” she says, “it makes about a third of my case-load.”

Well, since it took a decade or two to remove mens’ testicles, I suppose it’ll take another decade or two to give it back to them. In reality though I think it will take longer since most of the ball-busting feminists aren’t really that interested in handing men back their balls. So to the ball-busting women out there, get used to the feelings, headaches and tears ladies and perhaps you can be more careful what you wish for next time.

On a side note, you know the old ‘what women want’ chestnut. So women pushed and cajoled men into becoming women and then when they became like women, women are still not happy, but that’s what women said they wanted but apparently they didn’t really mean what they said. Sorry ladies, how the hell are men supposed to know what women want when it appears women don’t even know themselves?

News24 - Indian meteorologists tracking the cyclone that killed more than 22 000 people in Myanmar said on Tuesday they had given their neighbour 48 hours warning of an impending storm. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), which had been monitoring the deepening depression over the Bay of Bengal since late last month, said it gave 48 hours warning that the cyclone would barrel into Myanmar.

“Forty-eight hours before (tropical cyclone) Nargis struck, we indicated its point of crossing (landfall), its severity and all related issues to Myanmarese agencies,” IMD spokesperson BP Yadav told AFP. The comments came after US First Lady Laura Bush accused Myanmar’s military regime of failing to warn its citizens in time about the cyclone, which devastated the impoverished country.

Starting in late April, the weather department was issuing regular advisories to Myanmar and other Southeast Asian countries that the cyclone was brewing in the Bay of Bengal. “Way back on April 26, we told them a cyclone was coming,” Yadav said, referring to general warnings of a growing storm.

By AR - New Zealand has gone officially nuts.

Government officials are looking at cutting the speed limit by 10kmh - and charging motorists to drive in urban centres - as ways of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

That idea is worthy of the 20-20 Summit Of Rudd.

Faith News Network - According to a CNSNews.com article, in her Earth Day news release, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) attributed this quote to the Old Testament: “To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.” However, many biblical scholars cite a problem with that quotation: it doesn’t exist in the Bible.

It was not the first time Pelosi has used this alleged biblical passage. The California Democrat has used it on several different occasions, and has even attributed the passage to the Old Testament Book of Isaiah. Dr. Raymond Bohlin is president of Probe Ministries, a non-profit apologetics ministry. He offers his findings.

“You’re just not going to find that kind of statement anywhere in Isaiah, let alone anywhere directly in scripture at all — Old Testament or New Testament,” says Bohlin. “So, you know, it’s hard to know where something like that gets started. But it’s unfortunate that she’s referring to it as a scripture quotation because it’s not.”

That’s the nice way of saying that Pelosi is a lying sack of filth and I don’t think it’s all that hard to figure out where it gets started, leftists are quite happy to quote the Bible and misrepresent it when they want to use it as a cudgel to bash us Christians about. They’ll use the New Testament when demanding to spare the life of mass murderers, rapists, pedophiles etc and when they demand that we join them in coddling the scum of the earth. They’ll also insist on using it to make all of us appease and accommodate those who would slit our throats and destroy our way of life.

They’ll happily quote the Old Testament and conveniently forget about the New Testament when desperately trying to equate Islam with Christianity. So it’s no surprise that Pelosi would make stuff up when barracking for the environment. However, ask her about abortion, prayer [Christian only] in public schools, Christmas trees and she’ll suddenly be yearning for the separation of Church and State, so take your quotes and shove em’ Pelosi. I’m surprised leftists don’t quote from the Koran, since they’re always insisting it’s the religion of peace, love for everything and tolerance, funny that.

CBS News - A Georgia board Monday denied condemned killer William Earl Lynd’s clemency bid, paving the way for him to likely become the nation’s first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court held that lethal injection is constitutional. He was convicted of fatally shooting his live-in girlfriend, Ginger Moore, two days before Christmas in 1988. Prosecutors at Lynd’s trial said Moore suffered a slow agonizing death, regaining consciousness twice after successive gunshot wounds to the head at the home she and Lynd shared in Berrien County, in south Georgia.

The medical examiner testified that Moore was still alive when Lynd stuffed her into the trunk of her car and took a drive. Lynd confessed to authorities that when he heard her thumping around in the trunk, he opened it and fired the final lethal shot. The allegation that Lynd kidnapped Moore before she died was an essential “aggravating” circumstance that made him eligible for the death penalty. It also helped prosecutors show the slaying was premeditated.

Meanwhile, a Mexican-born Texas prisoner whose death sentence set off an international dispute and a U.S. Supreme Court rebuke of the White House, also received an execution date Monday. Texas State District Judge Caprice Cosper set the Aug. 5 lethal injection for 33-year-old Jose Medellin for his participation in the gang rape and strangulation deaths of two teenage girls 15 years ago in Houston when they stumbled upon a gang initiation rite.

IHT - Myanmar struggled Monday to recover from a cyclone that killed thousands of people, while its military leaders were moving ahead with a constitutional referendum on Saturday that would cement their grip on power. Foreign Minister Noppadol Pattama of Thailand met with Myanmar’s ambassador on Tuesday according to Reuters. Following the meeting, Noppadol said that 15,000 people had been killed and another 30,000 were still missing.

If those numbers are accurate, the death toll would be the highest from a natural disaster in Asia since the tsunami of December 2004, which devastated coastlines along Indonesia, Thailand and other parts of south Asia and claimed 181,000 lives. Tens of thousands of people were homeless after the cyclone, and food and water were running short.

“Stories get worse by the hour,” one Yangon resident, who did not want to be identified for fear of government retribution, said in an e-mail message. “No drinking water in many areas, still no power. Houses completely disappeared. Refugees scavenging for food in poorer areas. Roofing, building supplies, tools — all are scarce and prices skyrocketing on everything.”

Not only are they suffering at the hands of nature but they also have to deal with those Junta parasites. When you stop and think about their lot, we are truly blessed.

SMH - THE Government has shelved plans for a second round of deeper tax cuts because of the increasingly uncertain economic outlook. Under an “aspirational” tax plan announced before the election, Labor wanted to reduce the number of personal income tax rates from four to three. But the Finance Minister, Lindsay Tanner, confirmed in an interview with the Herald that no action would be taken in this budget, leaving 2011-12 void of any new personal income tax cuts. “It’s simply responsible and prudent not to be making locked-in, specific promises about these kinds of things when it’s so far down the track,” he said. The changes remained an aspiration but any final decision would be made much later, he said.

Yeah whatever you parasite, this is our money we’re talking here. This is money that we bloody worked for, money that we earned, not money that Santa dropped off at Christmas. This gasbag is sitting there waffling about responsibility and prudence with the money that we have earned, as if we need to be obliged to pay this gasbag part of our wages or something, as if we should consider ourselves lucky for getting to keep most of it. In this year the government is looking at a 10-20 billion dollar surplus, a surplus that we earned and this pile of waste thinks that stealing a bit less of our wages in the future, putting aside all the extra that’s already been gouged out of us, is irresponsible.

What the hell Australia, am I the only one who sees this for what it is? Perhaps we like paying tax or something. The taxcuts for June/July are still on as far as I know, but I’m getting worried folks, you can’t trust these leftist scumbags with even the time of day. I fear they will always remain of the opinion that the money we work for and earn is not just ours but needs to be taken to be spread around to all the other useless parasites, like themselves. I just hope there are enough of us out there who feel very differently to them. If not, folks like me will have trouble earning a bit of extra money knowing that more of it will be going towards some useless undeserving parasite somewhere.

By AR - Retiring Federal Labor Senator Robert Ray told Laurie Oakes on Sunday that Rudd, compared with Hawke and Keating, was the best-briefed leader - ever - he had dealt with…

That report jars just ever-so-slightly with the response Rudd gave Neil Mitchell on 3AW on Friday:

MITCHELL: Why have you decided to suppress documents on the inflationary effects of workplace reform? Isn’t it reasonable that we know that?
PM: I’m unaware of the details of that. I saw a report on it this morning. FOI decisions are made by our FOI decision markers within individual departments. But I’m really uncertain of the details in that particular case. I wish I could help you, but I can’t.

For a Prime Minister who starts ringing his media advisers at 5:15AM, Rudd’s claim to be unaware of the details is unbelievable. This is another tactic in Rudd’s arsenal of question-avoiding techniques. The too-drunk-to-remember visit to Scores was laughable, but when Rudd tries to suggest that as a micro-managing control freak, he isn’t aware of every minute detail of an FOI request concerning inflation, his government’s “number one priority” and workplace relations, the major plank that swept Kevin07 to election victory, he is treating the Australian public with contempt.

Departing Robert Ray has some more advice for Rudd:

“Be aware of the problems of hubris, that’s a detestable word I know. Don’t start talking about being the natural government … you’re only as good as your last decision, essentially.”

By AR - Kevin07 Home Affairs Minister, Bob Debus, appeared on Sky News Agenda. His interview by David Speers was illuminating. It leaves you with the impression that Perth International Airport was closed due to a security scare and the Home Affairs Minister knows nothing about it. He assumes and presumes and qualifies his statements with “As I understand it…” which really means, “I don’t know for sure, but…”

He stumbled and blathered throughout the interview and only livened up when Speers asked him about his contribution to the 20-20 Festival of Rudd. He’s the guy who came up with the idea of a republic by 2010. The interview shows he has no idea about which model republic we should choose or that he has any idea how we could possibly introduce a republic in such a short time frame. So why propose the idea to the Summit of Fools? Obviously it was just a joke. As was this interview.

Helen Dalley: How secure are we? It’s been nearly seven years since September 11 and terrorism is still a major concern in Australia . As we’ve seen in the news, Perth International Airport was closed overnight after four suspicious packages were found, but there’s also the threat of pandemic diseases and climate change disasters to name just a few. One of the men responsible for keeping us safe, is the Minister for Home Affairs Bob Debus and he joins us now and to speak with him is our Political Editor, David Speers, who’s in our Canberra bureau. Continue reading We’re In Safe Hands… I Hope…

MNF-Iraq - A young man beginning a business to support his new family is not necessarily headline news. However, for Kusai, 24, his dream would be realized in the heart of what was once considered an extremists’ stronghold only six months prior - Hawijah, Iraq. Hawijah, located approximately 60 miles south of Kirkuk City in the Kirkuk province, historically held center stage to the region’s worst violence against civilians, Iraq security forces, and coalition forces by extremists.

The residents here faced anywhere from 10 to 15 attacks per day, according to military records. Soldiers report that day-time patrols were targeted with small arms fire throughout the city and routinely upon exiting the confines of Forward Operating Base McHenry where Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division are located.

Continue reading Increased Security Brings New Commerce to Hawijah, Iraq…

MNF-Iraq - In conjunction with Operation Marne Piledriver, two Mahmudiyah schools are being refurbished with the help of U.S. Soldiers. The Red Knight Rakkasans of 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), coordinated the funding needed to improve the schools. The Uthman School in High al-Jaza’ir and the Omah al-Mukhtar Girls’ School in the Qadasiyah Apartments were selected for refurbishment.

“These are the schools identified by the Iraqi Ministry of Education and the Mayor of Mahmudiyah as most in need for improvements,” said Capt. David Howald, Commander’s Emergency Response Program project manager for 3-320th FA. Improving the schools shows that education has once again become a priority for the people in the area, said Capt. Benjamin Torpy, commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 3-320th FA.

Renovations are expected to be complete within two months and will include fresh paint jobs, refurbished classrooms, new desks, windows and exterior walls to provide more space in each classroom. The changes will eliminate overcrowding that led to unsanitary conditions for students and teachers. “The people involved with the schools are very excited about the new opportunities in education for the younger generation of Iraqis in the area,” Torpy said. Marne Piledriver is an Iraqi Army-led operation largely focused on capacity-building projects throughout the Rakkasans’ operating environment.

Born in London, Beckinsale was the daughter of actor Richard Beckinsale, who died from a heart attack in 1979, and actress Judy Loe. She has a paternal half-sister, Samantha, who is also an actress. Richard Beckinsale’s paternal great-grandfather was Burmese, and Beckinsale has said that she was “very oriental-looking” as a child.

Beckinsale attended the private Godolphin and Latymer School, an all-girls independent school in London. In her teens, Beckinsale twice won the W. H. Smith Young Writers’ competition — once for three short stories and once for three poems. After a rebellious adolescence, including a period of anorexia and starting a smoking habit, she followed in the footsteps of her parents and began her acting career. Her first role was in One Against the Wind, a television film about World War II that was first aired in 1991. Having gained three language A levels, Beckinsale studied French and Russian literature at New College, Oxford, though she did not finish her degree. She thought that having an academic background studying foreign language and literature would broaden her range of acting roles. Wikipedia. Photos from here, here and here.

Daily Mail - The Tories managed to pull of sweeping victories across the country in the local elections as Labour haemorrhaged seats even in its key heartlands. In the two most striking results, and in a massive blow to Labour, the Tories won the northern weathervane of BURY, which covers key Westminster battlegrounds, and made stunning gains to seize control of SOUTHAMPTON.

They gained eight seats to take control of the south coast city, which had been administered by a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition, for the first time since 1984. In a further humiliation for the Government, Labour lost four seats in READING to no control with the Conservatives gaining an extra four seats. The defeat left it without control of a single local council in the south east.

The Tories were on target to achieve 44 per cent of the total votes, while grim-faced Labour MPs were left facing a slump to just 24 per cent. Despite many of the seats last being contested in 2004 when Labour was deeply unpopular over the Iraq War, it still managed to lose more than 230 seats. Meanwhile, the far-right British National Party won its first seats in NUNEATON & BEDWORTH, electing two councillors, and looked to be on course to win its first seat on the London Assembly.

Labour’s woes look certain to worsen today as the party has already lost control of councils at both ends of Wales in a dire set of local election results. Results in the former Labour stronghold of Torfaen in south Wales were also a major setback after the party lost 16 seats and overall controll, leaving it without a majority party.

It’s about time I say, hopefully this is just a sign of things to come, hopefully the left will be turfed out into the wilderness in the next election as well and a Conservative will be in No. 10 Downing Street. The left have been allowed to suck and leech the life out of that country for far too long.

By AR - Time Magazine has published its list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Ranked somewhere among the influential “Leaders and Revolutionaries,” is Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. The accompanying spiel was written by the Australia’s Head of State, Her Majesty, Queen Cate Blanchett.

The Queen doesn’t hesitate to trash her country:

For years, Australia’s government refused to apologize to Aborigines for past wrongs done to them — most notably, the systematic removal of children from their parents, an official policy that continued until the 1970s.

But it’s all fixed now, as when Saint Kevin apologised:

…wrongs were put right. …our government had provided us the space to begin again

Queen Cate enthuses about the apology and signing Kyoto, as Rudd’s two “great achievement(s) since taking office”. But she gets her chronology screwed up:

Continue reading The Continuing Hagiography Of Saint Kevin…

A real human rights activist talks about Sudan and Islam, touches briefly on the war on terror, Israel, the UN.
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Hat tip Angie.

LiveNews {Audio available at the link} - The owner of a dog, deliberately run over in Sydney’s west, has described how the men responsible laughed as she screamed for help. Jennifer Patten’s pet Chihuahua, Vinnie, is dead after the brutal attack on Grex Avenue at Minchinbury last night. She’s told 2GB’s Ray Hadley three men in a red hatchback kept on coming back for more.

“They ran over my shitzu first – he flattened himself out on the ground because he was so petrified – and the car just passed over the top of him,” she recounted. “And then my little Chihuahua-cross, who’s like 1.5 kilos and wouldn’t hurt a fly… I was screaming for my dogs to come to me and he started to run towards me and they lined him up and ran him over.”

Would have been nice if she had a gun and shot the lot of them right outta there, but that’s not how we do things out here. We’ve moved on from all that nasty gun business, now we just carry phones or nothing at all and just hope it all goes well. So the lady screams and yells and nothing happens, the cops turn up after a couple of minutes to take her statement and what ever else. This is what happens when you give up your guns, you can’t fight back, bad people can do what they want to you and your loved ones then. All the callers to the radio are banging on about the usual, more laws, writing letters, the pollies must get off their asses.

All pointless, even with the best law enforcement, unless you want a cop on every street and are happy to pay for it, they can’t do anything. You can write all the letters you want and scream all you like. You must first become a victim for the cops to catch someone and sometimes they can’t, if they do, maybe a slap on the wrist for these crims, good behavior bond or some useless crap like that and don’t do it again. Which they will and the next victim will just have to bend over and take it, because like the this woman and her dogs, we think they’re much safer that way. Give up your guns and you will get neither safety nor justice, just the way it is.

A few days ago we heard that is was that mean, nasty John Howard and his lowering-taxes thinking that caused teenage girls to hit the bottle. How he lasted so long by not jacking up taxes is beyond me. Good heavens was the man completely insane, thinking that we might be better off doing what we wanted with our money!

SMH - Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has blamed the former Howard government for the rise in teenage binge drinking. Ms Roxon said the decision to cut taxes on premixed alcoholic drinks eight years ago helped fuel the surge in excessive drinking by young people, particularly teenage girls. Ms Roxon said she did not know why the Howard government had cut the excise in the first place.

Yeah, thanks a lot Howard, hiss-boo, because of your lack of heavy taxation, the nation’s teenagers are drinking their lives away, hope you’re happy, what? They should take some responsibility and parents need to wake up, who said that? Take him away for a proper flogging, we won’t entertain such capitalist, individualist, small government thinking, but wait.

The Australian - First, although sales of pre-mixed drinks have boomed, teen boozing hasn’t. The 2007 National Drug Strategy Household Survey, compiled by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, actually shows a small drop over the past four years in the rate of teenage girls abusing alcohol. It doesn’t seem that these drinks have made bingeing any worse, then.

Well, well, that changes everything doesn’t it, that means, thanks are in order, I mean since binge drinking is John Howards fault, then a drop in binge drinking, however small, is then also thanks to John Howard. So thank you John Howard, I’ll be waiting for the current Health Minister Nicola Roxon to issue a ‘thank you’ to the former PM and an apology as well. And if she doesn’t, I expect our unbiased media to pull her up on it. Forgive me if I don’t hold my breath though.Image thanks to Yahoo Images.

FOX News - Master Sgt. Brendan O’Connor received the Distinguished Service Cross in a ceremony Wednesday at Fort Bragg for his actions in Afghanistan. The award is second in achievement only to the Medal of Honor. “He made a conscious decision to do whatever it took to get to our wounded soldiers,” said Maj. Sheffield Ford, the team’s commander during the June 2006 battle in southern Afghanistan. With his Special Forces team surrounded by Taliban fighters, O’Connor volunteered to lead a relief force to rescue two wounded colleagues.

He got to the edge of a field, but intense Taliban machine-gun fire made him turn back. After shedding his body armor so he could press himself flat in a ditch, he crawled the last 200 feet to the wounded soldiers. Taliban fire was so close that it sheared off the blades of tall grass around the ditch as he crawled. Finally reaching the two wounded soldiers, he stabilized them and led the relief force back to safety. “Master Sgt. O’Connor exemplifies the spirit and ethos of these warriors,” Olson said. “We stand in quiet awe and in the deepest admiration.”

FOX News - A Tennessee couple who lost their son in Iraq want an Arizona merchant to pay more than $40 billion in damages to survivors of soldiers whose names are on the anti-war shirts he is selling online. A complaint seeking class-action status for the lawsuit by Robin and Michael Read says Dan Frazier of Flagstaff has no right to profit from commercial sale of products that use the dead soldiers’ names without permission. The change, requested Tuesday in federal court in Tennessee, would cover the heirs of all U.S. service members killed in the Middle East since Sept. 11, 2001, and seek $4 billion in compensatory damages and $36.5 billion of punitive damages.

JPost - Jewish leaders concocted the mass murder of handicapped Jews in order to keep from having to support them, and this murder is what the Jews term “the Holocaust,” according to a documentary special that aired on April 18 on Hamas’s Al Aqsa television station. According to the documentary’s narrator, Israel’s first prime minister David Ben Gurion decided that Jewish “disabled and handicapped are a burden to the state,” after which “the Satanic Jews” - the film cuts to a picture of a hassidic Jew - “thought up an evil plot to be rid of the burden of disabled and handicapped” - the film then cuts to piles of emaciated corpses - “in twisted criminal ways.”

The program dealt primarily with the Holocaust, but included comparisons to the Palestinian situation, calling the massacres in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps a “holocaust” and blaming Israel for a “Palestinian holocaust.” “They [the Jews] were the first to invent the methods of evil and oppression,” explains the documentary’s narrator, cutting to scenes of Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan and Ben Gurion. The film claimed Jewish leaders blamed the Nazis for their own massacre of Jews “so the Jews would seem persecuted and try to benefit from international sympathy.”

Judging by the rather low level of international sympathy Israel is currently getting, it would appear the Jews are on the wrong track then. A couple of million of their own sacrificed for some international sympathy, I mean really, how stupid can you get. We shouldn’t be surprised though, these are the same morons who probably think that 9/11 was an American job, but a great victory for the Muslim world as well. I did find it interesting that they claimed the Jews were getting rid of their disabled when it was the Islamists in Iraq and Palestine who used such folks as homicide bombers.

But these Jihadist scum will tell you it’s the Jews with a straight face. I wonder if good ol Jimmy Carter will bring any of this up when he’s having tea and falafels with these mass murdering terrorists. I wonder if he will twist this around to blame the Jews like his buddies, shouldn’t be too hard, after all if a bunch of Hamas morons can do it, I’m sure a high-level leftie like Carter should be able to come up with something. But then again, why bother, most lefties don’t really bother with good reason to hate Jews anyway, just about anything will do with them I think.

MNF-Iraq - Operation Sawlat al-Fursan, or Charge of the Knights, entered a new phase of operations in Basrah. The operation, which began March 24, has now started the process of clearing strongholds previously dominated by criminal militias. A deliberate house-to-house clearance operation of the south-western Basrah district of al-Qiblah was conducted without major incident. It resulted in significant quantities of arms, ammunition and explosives being found.

Continue reading Charge of the Knights…