November 13, 2009 – 11:28 am
Certain commentators are making a big deal out of the religion of the Fort Hood shooter:
Hasan warned that Muslims soldiers could not be trusted to fight a Muslim enemy, and could turn their guns on their countrymen instead. He then did just that himself. Question: why did the army not remove this man from his [...]
November 12, 2009 – 2:01 pm
Andrew Bolt adds an update to his Rudd letter post:
I like Robert Doyle, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne. In fact, we’d probably say we were friends. So I say this more with a smile than with anger: Robert, you great, applause-seeking hypocrite:
I was part of a group of Australia’s capital city lord mayors who lobbied [...]
November 12, 2009 – 11:26 am
Long-term conservative US blog “Little Green Footballs” (still linked to by, for example, tim Blair) is distancing itself from recent antics by those suffering “Obama Derangement Syndrome”:
Q: At that point in time you were fairly well aligned with much of the conservative blogosphere which unified behind the war on terror. Lately that seems to [...]
November 11, 2009 – 8:34 am
Tim Blair is sarcastically mocking the “mainstream media” for waiting until there’s actually some real material linking the Fort Hood shooter’s religion with the killings:
Oh, look; Anne Davies is waking up.
Of course, those with particular, regularly-expressed feelings about the religion in question knew all along what factor was to blame, and they didn’t need to [...]
November 6, 2009 – 8:24 am
Awesomely stupid attack in The Australian:
MORE public housing units are being demolished than built under Kevin Rudd’s $42 billion economic stimulus package, designed to buoy the building industry.
As at two weeks ago, only 73 new houses had been completed under the $5.4bn spending package, announced in February, while hundreds of existing homes had been demolished [...]
November 5, 2009 – 8:03 am
Whoever turns out to be right on the subject of climate change (and, for what it’s worth, I hope against hope it’s the defiant “skeptics”), what’s with the gloating from people like tim Blair?
Sweet, sweet misery from George Monbiot:
There is no point in denying it: we’re losing. Climate change denial is spreading like a [...]
November 3, 2009 – 7:47 am
Jason Wilson at New Matilda on columnists who write deliberately inflammatory, trolling drivel, knowing it’ll drive hits on their websites and advertising dollars for their bosses – or, as he calls them, “trollumnists“.
As the newspaper business model heads south, though, we’ve been subjected to the rise of what we might christen the “trollumnist” — the [...]
November 2, 2009 – 9:48 am
I’m going to start off this week at Pure Poison with a quick look at Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair’s recent highly amusing columns about the other side on the climate control debate CALLING THEM NAMES.
Immeasurably hurt
[Jill Singer's] abuse is representative – of a form of argument now typically unleashed in all our most value-loaded [...]
October 29, 2009 – 9:27 am
Miranda Devine has a few new entries for her list of things that annoy her:
Cyclists who think they have any right at all to use the roads (can’t they just use the occasional bike paths I sometimes whisk past, and walk the rest of the way?), and therefore inconvenience drivers like her.
Non-productive, “frivolous” stunts, such [...]
October 28, 2009 – 10:11 am
Janet Albrechtsen uncovers shocking evidence that our leaders are about to sign us up to a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT:
Of course, there is no final treaty as yet. That is what they are hoping to finalise in Copenhagen. But there are 181 pages that make up the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change dated September 15, [...]
