Tim Blair

As usual JoHo proves that as far as intellect and real culture go he's a million miles in front of that old bully boy, facist Keating.

I saw Jake Ryan on A Current Affair last night being interviewed about his reaction to Samudra's sentence. Jake could barely keep the smile under control and neither could I. I'm just so happy that one less shameless terrorist will share the same sunshine as us.

BTW, the Southport Sharks made it is far as the Finals before being knocked out. Good one Lads!

It is good to see he took it like a man. I wonder if they will let him put his fingers in his ears when he is in front of the firing squad :)

John Howard's comments to Keating were very mature and forgiving, conssidering all the abuse Keating has heaped on him over the years. Can you imagine what Keating would be saying if the positions werte reversed: something about scumbags ?

Does anyone understand why the Indon cops put the handcuffs on these guys with their hands in front of them instead of behind their backs? As a result they need two cops to stop them raising their arms defiantly. Wonderful piece of theatre but weird technique. Hope we get to see the firing squad streaming video on the net.

Hey Tim, whats happened? We've had four posts (now five) from right wing death beasts gigling themselves silly over the fact that we won. Woo Hoo!! And not a single smarmy 'my dad can beat up your dad' peurile comment from one of your resident idiot lefties. Shame really, they seem to normally enjoy having their noses rubbed in their own excrement, like a particularly stupid cocker spaniel. And we do enjoy watching.

htaccess rules d00d.

Then again they're probably sleeping off a night of binging in an alleyway somewhere.

what was been won precisely?

history will be written by the prevailing power. er, that's how history works. a little to the lft, a little to the right, whatever.

war against terror? war against poverty? war against drugs?

i genuinely struggle to ascertain how anyone measures a win or a loss.

Keating's bile is instinctive. He will never change.

Strange how, of all surviving Australian Prime Ministers, the only one who seems to have achieved elder statesmanship is the ultimate left icon, Gough Whitlam: who still manages the occasional self-deprecating remark amongst the florid grandiloquence.

The rest - Fraser, Keating and, to a lesser extent, Hawke - are embittered, cantankerous and self-serving yesterday's men.

WHitlam is the worst of all, because the stupid labor luvvies (oops, tautology) idolise him so. The fact that his short lived government almost ran this country's economy into the ground is now conveniently forgotten and he is lionised as the man who created a few arts grants. The only reason I hope the old sod doesn't die is that the lefty twats in the media would bleat on and on about his demise for days.

I remember that AlpBC special interview of Whitlam by John Faulkner. I had previously thought that Fraser's blocking of supply was a cheap political trick (remember -- I'm a Howard loving conservative). But during the interview I was amazed at how many basic fuckups that the Whitlam government made. I decided that Fraser is a true Australian patriot and should have a thousand towering statues made in his image and every Australian should by told thrice daily of what a great deed he did for his country.

As for the blocking of supply to that disastrous, nation destroying, corrupt and pathologically incompetent Whitlam government, the ALP had tried to do it to Conservative governments on no less than 157 occasions over the previous 20 years, at times stating that their entire purpose was to bring down the Government. Being the ALP, they screwed the pooch every time and then whinged when Fraser got it right.

Unfortunately, that was the only bloody thing Fraser did get right.

Whitlam ? Isn't he the bloke who pinched the nations credit card whilst we slept, took it to a North Sydney motel and tried to hock us to an Arab loan shark for the next fifty years ?

Chico: a win is when all the Islamofascists have been reduced to sticky red blobs.

david,

if one assumes that "Islamofascists" constitutes a specific & identifiable group, I agree with you wholeheartedly.

my points remains that no-one, at this time, has the ability to identify the group. and the heavy duty efforts post-911 in Middle East have created a more favourable playing field for "Islamofascists".

the constant references to "the evil ones" without a clear and public process to identify

a) who the people are
b) what they want - no matter how fucking crazy their demands are

is going to result in the endless cycle.

just my opinion.