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a little dab will do ya

Maybe it was just the August winds or the prime meanster simply laying false trails again, but someone sure put something in the Liberals’ drinks this past couple of weeks.

 

When federal liberal backbencher & former leadership aspirant, Bronwyn ‘Boadicea’ Bishop, recently posited that the recruitment age for the ADF be lowered to 14, her suggestion received all the serious attention that it deserved.

 

Then we had Bronwyn’s namesake, the Minister for the Ageing, the blond ice-maiden member for Curtin in WA, Julie Bishop, trying to convince us that the US Court of Appeals had reviewed the Military Commission process & that David Hicks would get a “fair

time for a little common sense .....

Please take a minute to read this article.

 

It is written by Amal Awad, who is an executive member of the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network.

 

Ms Awad’s common-sense remarks stand in stark contrast to the hyperbole & hysterical fear mongering recently engaged in by some members of the Howard government, whilst pretending to promote “Australian Values

one to the head .....

‘The ideal minister would be Sophie Panopoulos, the excitable Victorian Liberal MP who was barking the other day that Muslim girls should be prohibited from wearing the hijab to school. She has also called Barnaby Joyce a political terrorist.

 

I have never met Panopoulos, but there was something oddly familiar when I saw her barging around on television this week. She reminded me of Margaret Thatcher, which is to say bum in the air and chest thrust forward, like a constipated duck being taught to march by a drill sergeant.’  

 

Mike Carlton

 

 

Ah, The Tears Of Crocodiles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

boadicea bishop from the coward's castle .....

‘It has come to my attention today that an opinion piece has been authored and distributed by a Muslim activist, known for his offensive behaviour to women, by the name of Mr Irfan Yousef.

 

He has made a number of scurrilous, ridiculous and inaccurate statements concerning me. For the record, I totally refute his statements but, as he has not resorted to bomb throwing, I guess we can handle his accusations.’