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The Slatts’ clan comes from the line known as Black Irish. Looks like we’ve got a new strain:

Speaking at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, at a performance by of “Riverdance” by Irish youth, First Lady Michelle Obama thanked the crowd and said, “It is good to be home.”

That’s what Gillard would call hyperbowl.

Former Labor MP Gary Johns gives the luvvy classes an erudite, learned spray:

”Nowhere on this committee is to be found a Meals-on-Wheels representative, the Salvation Army or someone from Lifeline or a St Vinnies shop, or Rotary. The latter are civil society, not the leftists who, in the past decades, have assumed positions as spokespeople for civil society, without any authority or legitimacy. These are people who rely on the inclusive institutions of the Western liberal democracies, institutions that encourage the creation and redistribution of wealth, to argue for its antithesis.
They argue for ethnic distinctions that prey on the tolerance of liberalism. They argue for indigenous differences that deepen bad behaviour. They argue for environmental attitudes that are anti-human and weaken both adaptation and ingenuity. They argue for a form of feminism that undermines merit.”

Hey Santa, this is the bike I want:

Letter of the week in The Australian today:
HELLO, my Aussie cousins. I want to send a few words of support at this difficult time. We all know the Australian Test cricket team has had it tough of late, what with back-to-back Ashes defeats and a 4-0 thumping in India.
We all know the Australian Test cricket team has had it tough of late, what with back-to-back Ashes defeats and a 4-0 thumping in India.
Now I also know “Diamond” Dave Warner has had a tough year with the bat, but I think his attempt to land a punch on England’s smallest player, Joe Root, could be a stroke of genius. Why bother with balls and bats, silly mid-ons and maidens? It is all so yesteryear and not at all macho.
I say it could be wise to settle future Ashes rivalries like real men. In a good old-fashioned punch up, the Aussies may even have a chance of winning, certainly more than with this motley crew of boozed-up village-cricket journeymen.
To make it fair, England could bring in Lennox Lewis for Stuart Broad and Frank Bruno for Alastair Cook. As for the Aussies, why make any changes at all?
To be fair, perhaps the Australians could lose Michael Clarke for Jeff Fenech. And given Mitchell Johnson’s well publicised troubles, he could probably be replaced by “Aussie” Joe Bugner.
Thanks to “Diamond” Dave’s bold initiative, we can look forward to beer and biffo to settle this Ashes question once and for all.
Tim Horgan, London, England

Tell us something we don’t know:

AUSTRALIA’S refugee determination process has broken down completely, admitting large numbers of people whose claims to refugee status are fraudulent.
The claims come from a former senior Immigration Department official who says the system favours those who tell lies over those who tell the truth, is easily scammed and has become utterly dysfunctional.

Plummeting to a new low in grievance pursuit.

A MAN dialled 999 to complain to police that a prostitute was UGLY after meeting her outside a hotel.
The caller told West Midlands Police he wanted “to report her for breaching the Sale of Goods Act”.

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Definitely a case of Gillard and Labor luvvies in the media going off half-cocked:

The Prime Minister launched a day-long attack on the Opposition Leader – as well as Mr Hockey, the opposition’s Treasury spokesman, and Howard government minister Mal Brough, the LNP’s candidate for the Sunshine Coast seat of Fisher, who both attended the fundraiser – over the “display” of the menu at the function.
But Mr Richards claimed last night the menu never left the kitchen. “I would like to confirm what actually happened: there were never any menus distributed on the tables or in the restaurant,” he said in an email to Mr Brough, released by Mr Abbott’s office. “I created a mock menu myself as a light-hearted joke. However, as I said, I never produced them for public distribution.

Before Labor’s epic quail (Ta, James Morrow and Tim Blair) their confected outrage constrasted dramatically with their silence over founding femmo Germaine Greer’s comments sneering at Gillard’s big bum. Hypocrisy doesn’t begin to describe it.

So there were sound grounds for our doubts, after all. But then we weren’t on the payroll of Big Gov.

The New York Times is wondering, as are other mainstream media outlets, “What to Make of a Warming Plateau.” If the media had a more critical eye, they’d see what they’ve been expecting is wrong.
The Times reported Monday that “The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that. And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace.”

Jeez, The Age’s luvvy readers will melt the phone lines if they solve today’s politically incorrect cryptic crossword. Clues and answers include nuts, round the bend, goes nuts, up the pole, one-legged, maniac or nutcase.

What’s that about those who ignore history being bound to repeat it?
This will send a chill down Jewish spines. And hopefully outrage a majority of Germans.

In a throwback to its darkest past, the German government recently decided to back an initiative which singles out Jewish-owned businesses and targets them for detrimental treatment. Joining 13 other European Union members, Berlin has reportedly agreed to support efforts aimed at applying special labels of origin to products manufactured by Jewish owned factories in Judea and Samaria.

Let’s hope this stays on the Left Coast:

Strobridge Elementary Principal Charles Hill has a brilliant idea: he’s holding a toy gun exchange next Saturday in which students of the Hayward, CA school can turn in a toy gun to receive a book and a raffle ticket to win one of four bicycles.

Actually, if Australia’s academic grievance chasers tried it on here, it would immediately prompt PC outrage at the idea of swapping raffle tickets for water pistols. Oh, the sinfulness of it all.

Another day and further proof that more Australians are grasping rationale:

CLIMATE change sceptics outnumber believers, according to an OECD study that shows how the debate has sharply divided Australians
The study into household attitudes towards the environment shows Australians are more sceptical than any of the other 10 nations examined, with the exception of The Netherlands.

Being John To-the-rescue:

“John Malkovich saved my life,” the 77-year-old from Defiance, Ohio, said in an interview Friday.

Too right they do. Particularly for commuters who have to put up with modern-day Sybil Fawltys with their “Oh, thart’s so, like, awesome. Is there, like, an arpp for it?”
And on and on ad nauseum at mega decibel rates.

Study: Steady Cell Phone Use Leads To Spikes In Blood Pressure

We’re shocked at the sudden, premature passing of a true nonconformist, a powerful thinker and exquisite writer.

WRITER, publisher, intellectual and epicurean Christopher Pearson has died peacefully in his sleep in Adelaide at the age of 61.
Pearson, a columnist with The Weekend Australian, was renowned for his sharp literary intellect, generous spirit and wit.

A simple, likeable country bloke informed my sister the other day that a mutual acquaintance had “woken up dead”.

My cuz, Denis, informs via Facebook that Rumble in the Jungle was on ABC2 last night. Wish I’d known.
It reminds me of a great story of humourous revenge in these parts a few decades back.
There used to be a publican in Warrnambool who would encourage the local indigenous people to drink all their money and then chuck them out. This, of course, sometimes led to unpleasantries and the police threatened to take his licence unless he mended his ways. One afternoon a member of the indig community rang the cops to report that “two black blokes were belting the crap out of each other” in the pub’s lounge. A divvy van, two police cars and a squad of the Bool’s finest burst into the lounge to find no activity other than a TV screening the Rumble in the Jungle. A couple of elders were seen on a nearby street bench laughing fit to bust.

British snoops, hacks and papz will be in a frenzy to put more meat on this bone:

Speculation is rife over the identities of two people allegedly involved in a secret affair which could have serious political implications for David Cameron and his government.

Some things never change.

A few of our union leaders are useless, self-serving bludgers. Not all, I emphasise. But this union hack would beat them by the length of the straight.

Good one, Eddie. Goes to show the idiots are not just in the outer. This whole affair has been overblown from the get-go. Adam Goodes is an outstanding representative of his people, a brilliant footballer and a persuasive and eloquent speakers. But regrettably, he was behind the door when they handed out good looks. Buddy must have hip and shouldered him there. And that, I suspect, was what the silly kid was referencing. Seems the only thing wrong with Adam’s skin is that it’s too thin. Triple Brownlow Medallist Bobby “The Chimp” Skilton must be having a nice old chuckle in his sickbed.