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RT @melbwonkdrinks: Are you prepared for the Carbon Taxaggedon Countdown? 5pm June 30th, Great Northern Hotel #melbwonkdrinks
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@kecane Yes, will be back in about 10 days. Hopefully. #scopecreep
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A bomb goes off outside the PM's office, you're not really thinking "right, let's get to a holiday camp & look for a gunman".. #4corners
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@NoPlaceforSheep nice juxtaposition !!!!
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Can anyone think of anyone better than @janetribune for this? ABC Job: Want to be editor of @abcthedrum? http://t.co/LVjF8Beb
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@cyenne40 Yes, but in pain.
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How Christian are Christian lobbyists? - The Drum Opinion http://t.co/yeCGZ4Hm @foomeister Go. You. Good. Thang.
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@swearyanthony @ben_hr Vet! What a good idea! They must be constantly peed on!
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@cyenne40 The universe is going to swallow you whole in self defense soon. #dadjokes
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@ben_hr it's a wool coat. Soaking it is last option before binning it.
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Rudd The Hypocrite
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''Another great challenge of our age is asylum seekers. The biblical injunction to care for the stranger in our midst is clear. The parable of the Good Samaritan is but one of many which deal with the matter of how we should respond to a vulnerable stranger in our midst.”
Why is this making me come over all shouty? Because it’s our Dear Leader in October 2006’s Monthly Magazine, quoting Scripture as he extols the virtues of his hero, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a German theologian executed by the Nazis for his involvement with those who wished to assassinate Hitler. He also smuggled a number of Jews out of Germany.
There is obviously no equivalence between Bonhoeffer’s motives and those of 21st Century people smugglers, however their cargo is essentially the same: desperate people, facing persecution or death, prepared to do whatever it takes, face whatever privations stand in their way, simply to escape.
It irks me that Rudd is chest-beating and dog-whistling about the Threat To Our Borders, when it’s so clear that, like almost everything he says, he simply doesn’t believe it. He is the most disturbing of hypocrites; rather than being a bastard who acts nice, he actually holds fundamentally humanitarian values, yet is prepared to speak and act in complete contradiction of those values when the polls tell him to.
It’s doubly offensive this time, as he seeks to outflank the Opposition on this issue; he will issue instructions to Indonesia, backed up with wads of cash, and do his best to echo Howard’s vote-winning “We will decide who comes to this country”. All the Liberals will be able to do at that point will be to agree with him, which they are pathologically unable to do, or get Kevin Andrews to give us his uniquely atrocious take on Keep Darky Down.
Oh, wait a minute, they have….
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26216549-601,00.html
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