My election battle - Lovelovelove President (Elect) Obama
November 5, 2008
I wanted to be happy today. I tried my best to join in the global sensation of anxious hope. It started well and by 3pm Sydney time it was going so well.
Despite being surrounded by people who think yesterday’s 3 minute event at 3pm was the pinnacle of comtemporary culture and fascination.
I spent some of today banging my head on various materials to decide whether the steel filing cabinet or the gyprock wall or the glass door would relieve me of my pain. But nothing stops the bleeding from the wounds one suffers when surrounded by Australians who think it’s unpatriotic to show any interest in America.
They watch American movies, on big ole American style TV’s while eating McDonald’s, but when it comes to acknowledging that whoever’s President could change THE world OUR world, well, an Australian can’t be caught dead caring.
So for the sake of the atrocities that should never have occurred, for the tortured in Guantanamo Bay, for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, for the environmental catastrophes that have escalated with justice denied to them, for the soldiers that were sacrificed for a few men’s greed, and for all the other Americans and non-Americans who died needlessly at the hands of a brutal dictator:
Thank you Barack Obama.
A man who has made himself and his family instant targets, who is willing to sacrifice all for the sake of common good, a man who holds more power, arguably now, than any president in history, a man who could literally help save the world, for this gift of hope, even if it comes to nothing, as human nature so often does, to imagine that hope is possible:
Thank you Barack Obama.
Now it’s just the waiting game until “President” Bush can be indicted for war crimes against humanity and hanged by the neck until he is dead, like Saddam Hussein. Or is that hoping for too much?
The Celebritocracy Election:
October 29, 2008
I’m so excited about the US Elections, I can barely breathe. I know it’s sooooo UnAustralian of me not to just hate the Seppos and that, and I was never interested in politics either but this is better than Arnie running for Prez or Peter Garrett running for PM, right here. A girl could only dream so much.
Barack Obama is Sidney Poitier and President Kennedy and a good splash of JFK Jr. He is Martin Luther King Jr Jr Jr and he makes me see his dream, where black children and white children. He reminds me sooooo much of our own Kevin 07 who everybody loved soooooo much because next to the Fuhrer he sounded like the angels singing.
John McCain is sad for one reason only. If that’s the best that the American Republican Party can spit out, then the conversation’s closed, really, isn’t it? I think it’s kind of people not to drop to the floor and roll around uncontrollaly laughing whenever he’s close by. We are a civil society after all.
So these things have all been so reassuring that I’ve almost been feeling hopeful. Not that Barack Obama is going to buy the world a Coke and everyone will live happily ever after. Not that the Americans will hold hands and concede that people should be judged not on the colour of their skin but on the content of their character, to quote Dr. King.
I’m excited because Barack is like the best celebrity we could have dreamed up: he’s young enough, old enough, black enough, white enough, you can take Barack ANYWHERE! After all these years of Dubya walking around with that stupid i-just-looked-up-a-bad-word-in-the-dictionary smirk, I’m desperate for an all rounder with some genuine charisma. He’s sooooo handsome. The world is going to hell and this is a much better looking way to go.
Sarah Palin To Be Scratched Before the Race: My Melbourne Cup tip
September 17, 2008
Our international readers may not know this but on the same day as the Americans will be casting their vote for President, Australians will be gambling on a multi-million dollar race. Those in the state of Victoria will have a public holiday for a 3 minute event. Being Australian on Melbourne Cup day almost eradicates any authority I may have to discuss world politics.
November 4 2008 is all about hats and gambling and champagne. The punters probably have done more study than the voters, but it’s all about winning and money.
Most racehorses have a longer resume than Sarah Palin but that’s not the problem.
It’s not that she’s an unknown quantity. The scary thing is we know EXACTLY what she is all about.
This article (thanks Paully) outlines the proof that Sarah Palin is a fundamentalist Christian with a biblical world view. She has never shown anything else. We don’t really need proof. It’s all right there in the puddin’.
As history has shown us, high up fundamentalists in positions of power didn’t get there by the grace of God. They got there using Assemblies of God marketing techniques, and Pentecostal beliefs.
They are generally corrupt, or have been involved in some corruption that is big enough to be unveiled. You just don’t get there without it and she’s already up for questioning in TrooperGate.
Can she make it to the Cup? Will the necessarily scandalous AoG background prevent her from ever getting there? Maybe when it all comes out, Betty Bowers, America’s best Christian could take over.
Pastor Sarah Palin is Killing Me Harshly
September 4, 2008
thanks to Mrs. Betty Bowers
The horror movie that is the Republican Party of the United States of America has got me hiding under the bed typing this. I have a fork here and I’m going to stab myself with it if I ever hear the words “President John McCain.”
In the place where the books say my heart is supposed to be, I thought I felt something shift the other day, when I heard that the Republican party had chosen a female running mate for McCain.
Of course Golda Meir was what I imagined
It felt like the girls at work describe hope, and I think that’s what it was. Feminazis such as my good self imagine all kinds of wondrous female candidates that could organise the changing of catheter with the changing of the national healthcare system. But he chose Sarah Palin.
Now Ilona and I have long held a theory on girls called Sarah. They’re so pleasant. They’re so carrot cake. They seem to be quality people but their enigma is in their ongoing wholesomeness. Their baby clothes were Laura Ashley. They’re Sarah. We can’t figure it out. Sarahs. It’s like you have to exhale while you say it and smile. Sa-rahh. Nice.
And to find out the next day she a Sarah and that she is AoG, is nothing but crushing.
This is a person who believes in the Rapture and that while she is Vice or even President should she could suddenly be taken up by Jesus leaving us the whole rest of the world without a leader apart from Our Kevin. Which would be perfectly fine. He’s like a blond Barack. Sarah Palin believes that she could disappear suddenly if the Lord decides not to tarry, as they say, and she would be taken up as a righteous born again Christian to heaven where she belongs and where she can wait to judge the rest of the world.
But the thing I find most shattering about this situation is that if only I’d played the game, I could have been Sarah. I listen to her speak familiar fundie venomous self-righteousness sounds like an AoG Pastor Off The Rack. She displays the evangelicals she represents as the insular judgemental arrogant fruitcakes they are. Please, do yourself a favour check out her tone. She has watched so much Joyce Meyer, she’s surprised she can even be in the same room as you without feeling sick you wretched sinner.
If only I’d stuck around, and taken advantage of the magnificent brainwashing technology and techniques that were available instead of poo-pooing them, I could have been Sarah Palin. She’s had the world’s best training in convincing people that she’s real and that they should give her their power and money. I had that education and I threw it away!
She’s a wishlist gift to the Republican party. She don’t need to tell you God’s on her side, honey, cos you already know.
Fundamentalist Christians are going to get disgustingly paralyticly drunk with power and fear as Pastor Palin gets closer to the White House. It means Jesus is coming. And not everyone’s ready. Except for these people.
You can see how hard she’s believing for that Oval Office. I bet she’s got a picture of the President’s Desk on her fridge and she and her slutty children pray over it every day and believe God for a miracle.
Today I thank FSM for David Letterman because he makes me giggle. Why can’t he be President?
A Pentecostal President - the End is Nigh
September 3, 2008
This is sooooo Revelation. These words from the Washington Post have rocked my world.
If Sarah Palin and John McCain win this November, she’d surpass John Ashcroft in terms of being the nation’s most famous Pentecostal. She is a member of the Assemblies of God.
So what we’re saying is that this would be President woman
who looks suspiciously like this woman
my personal favourite, of course from 90210, Andrea
would be President of the USA should John McCain make it to Office. A Pentecostal President. I’m all for it.
But can a woman who can’t run her own home, who can’t control her own children possibly run America? After all, her unwed Pentecostal daughter is pregnant.
America’s Best Christian, Mrs. Betty Bowers put it best yesterday in her truly Christian blog the No Sin Zone:
“Candidate for “Vice” President Sarah Palin has finally fessed up that her unmarried teenage daughter has been running around town having unprotected sex. Truly, the Lord Jesus is showing us two things by this sad example of teenage harlotry:
1. That a mother who also engages in sexual activity outside of a traditional, Christian marriage (if you doubt this, check out the birthday of Sarah’s first son — April 20, 1989 — and the date she and her handsome hubby eloped — August 29, 1988!) sets an appalling example for her own children. Indeed, studies from Focus on the Family have proven that harlot mothers wind up with harlot daughters 93.4% of the time. Similar studies by the godly gals at Concerned Women for America have concluded that these poor, impressionable girls learn to strut, show inappropriate décolletage and beguile like pushy prostitutes in their very own living rooms.
2. And a mother who values her career (to the point of abandoning a newborn to campaign 24-7 for a new job in another state) above raising her precious family should not be surprised when she FINALLY steps back inside her family home (if she remembers the address) to find that it has been filled with bastards in her shocking absence!
And, honestly, what is happening to our once-godly country when REPUBLICANS are getting all giddy over a unrepentant harlot? I expect Demoncrats to go for that nonsense, but not the party of God. Please join me in praying to the Lord Jesus that Mr. McCain kick this trash to the curb!”
Stay tuned…
Katie Milligan is hot! hot! hot!
September 2, 2008
Katie Milligan is the new feminist black.
I’m totally into this chick. She wants to make this relationship work.
Katie will now be famous for:
Going out with a football player from Cronulla who smashed her face with a glass.
Standing by her man, a football player from Cronulla who smashed her in the face with a glass. And then tried to set up his best childhood friend to cover for him. Just quietly you know. Katie told the Daily Telegraph yesterday
“I want people to know that Greg and I are still very much together,” she said. “Yes, I still love him.”
Katie should so be on the cover of Dolly Magazine next month!
OMG! What does a guy have to do to tell a girl it’s over? If my boyfriend did that to me, I would totally take the hint. Yeah, even me.
I found my Xmas card photo early this year!!!
August 26, 2008
A lot of you are thinking I’m over the top, I know. You’re saying it’s too early to get excited about the holidays, but to heck with it!!!! I can’t get enough of this photo. I know you say but why, why be so narrow about one picture, especially when there’s this one WITH WHEELS INCLUDED????:
and then there’s this one of course, a favourite amongst the elderly and terminally ill, people who perhaps, just perhaps have no one understanding to leave their lonely millions to. This one’s tempting….
He looks like he’s practically
at home with Jesus here….
But above we have the entire National Executive in this tremendous photo opportunity unified in praying for one of their own sons to be healed of a cancer that God’s finest can’t tell is already healed, hallelujah!
Mostly my favourite part is Father Brian’s obvious discomfort with having to go near a human being who is suffering (even though Cancer Boy looks like he just came back from chopping down a forest)
Father Brian is keeping as far a distance as possible from all that negative attitude, cancer talk and humanity. He’s willing to extend a hand, but Father Brian is happy the brothers are there to do the up close and icky stuff. He was never called to be a people person.
I’ve changed my mind about Father Brian too, thinking about that. He displays almost the same revulsion at the thought of genuine human emotion and this whole “real” bit that I do. Or maybe Father Brian just knew about the movies Cancer Boy had been watching and didn’t want to catch anything.
We knew nothing! AoG confirms stupidity again!
August 25, 2008
Okely, dokely. So now, Adelaide franchisee pastor Daddy Danny Guglielmucci has read a statement to the shareholders congregation that talks about how he and his wife Shazza and even Cancer Boy Mikie’s Wife Amanda didn’t know a thing.
This is incredible. We’re talking about a man who believes in prosperity theology and faith healing, someone who claimes to know a lot. We’re talking about one of Father Brian’s best buds. You telling me Father Brian didn’t know AGAIN?
This is so weird cos this happens happens all the time. Father Brian never knew about what his dad was doing with young people when it was time to lay hands on them, NOBODY knew about what happened to the girls at Mercy Ministries despite months and months of sending emails to the Nancys and Darlenes of the world.
And now, despite knowing stuff like that he has to buy a piece of land for $28,000,000, Father Brian doesn’t even get told by the Big Guy that his mate’s kid IS FAKING CANCER????!!! Freakier than that, NOT ONE other person around Cancer Boy got told either! Not his father, or any of his international pastor accomplices peers.
I’m shocked. Why does God tell them everything else about who’s good, who’s bad, who to vote for, what to wear, and who to give money to, but not this? I thought these guys were talking on the mainline!
People wonder why I can’t watch Neighbours. It’s not the acting I swear. It’s getting brought up by the Penties, the drama don’t come any better than this!
So here’s my favourite part. As part of his speech to the mentally kidnapped audience Daddy Danny, having finished with how painful the whole cancer thing had been to him and Shaz, announced that Mikie knew what he was doing the whole time, but couldn’t figure a way out. He knew what he was doing when he wrote the song, but he couldn’t tear himself away from being the biggest evangelist hero the world has ever known.
In September in 2006, Mike had an accident and went to hospital. It was at this time, because of his torment of living a double life, Mike thought he could escape the pain by creating a diversion from his addiction to adult pornography, so he created the cancer scenario.
The pain of this addiction was so deep that he started something he couldn’t stop and proceeded on a downward spiral that led to him experiencing pain and suffering that resulted in constant vomiting and many other symptoms of a genuine sufferer.
This goes a long way to prove intent. I would have stuck with a purely psychiatric defense and gone for diminished responsibility. He could have found a good psych with a specialty in Munchausen syndrome. If everyone kept their mouth shut, the way they have so far, the whole thing could have been over in a year. A judge would have given him a good behaviour bond at worst and insanity at best. Counselling and a small donation to the Cancer Council and it’s over.
But DaddyO just couldn’t keep his look-at-me-but-blame-the-porn trap shut.Now there’s clear intent. Now there’s lucidity. Now there’s fraud.
I’m just kicking back waiting for Mikie’s phone billt to come in. Big Daddy Danny will be reading that like a hawk. Hope he doesn’t dial up any of those trillion 1900 numbers. He’s gonna get to know his son like God never told him about before.
Gay is Passe again
June 29, 2008
We used to have the gayest city in the world outside of San Francisco and we were proud of it. Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras used to be the biggest tourist revenue raiser in the nation. Everything about us was gay, gay, gay. The Boy From Oz was gay. It was one long gayathon. But something’s changed. Something that even the Virus didn’t stop. This year again Sydney has no Pride. While the rest of the world remembers Stonewall,
Gay Pride events attract thousands
Gay Pride … Participants in the Berlin parade pose in the street.Photo: AFP
Thousands of people across Europe took part in Gay Pride events on Saturday, with some countries in Eastern Europe seeing gatherings of gays and lesbians for the first time.
At least 20 people were injured when the Czech Republic’s first ever Gay Pride parade was attacked by rightwing extremists armed with tear gas even before the event was due to begin in the city of Brno.
Three people were arrested when counter-demonstrators threw fireworks at the gathering of lesbians and gays in which an estimated 500 were to participate.
With calls in the internet for resistance to the “queer parade”, more than 200 police were present during the planned event.
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Pride spokesman Murray Hood
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… but Mardi Gras offers to help beleaguered organisation.
Sydney Pride has been offered open-ended support by New Mardi Gras as the charity tries to rebuild itself after two years without any events or services.
Gay and lesbian communities around the world will mark the Stonewall Riots’ 39th anniversary this Saturday, except Sydney.
Last year Sydney Star Observer asked why Sydney Pride had failed to organise any events, such as its Pride Week celebrations in previous years, to discover the organisation had lost too many board members to operate.
Pride spokesman Murray Hood confirmed the situation had not changed in the last 12 months, but said an audit report due this week could open the door to a fresh board and revival.
“Once we get the report from the auditor we’ll call an AGM and decide the [organisation’s] future,” Hood told SSO this week.
Read the rest of the sadness here
Maybe it’s true what Dr Robert Reynold asked in 2002 in the piece that rocked Sydney the Is Gay Passe? theory. Is everyone over it? Is there no reason for Pride? With a dollar so strong and a gay capital all acted up and over, what the bloody hell are we going to do for our tourism gigs?
In the Name of the Father (from hell)
June 28, 2008
This guy will never get special forgiveness from Big Nazi. He is the world’s most selfish man after Robert Mugabe and would only be suitable for the death penalty but he got in before we could. It’s days like this I wish there were a hell so that this guy could go there. It’s a damn shame. Why couldn’t he have just killed his useless self? Why be so selfish to everyone else? And yet i’m not supposed to be bitter….
Father was arrested before murder-suicide
THE man whose body was found in his car with his dead children had been arrested for violence against his wife on Monday - and released shortly afterwards, a relative said last night.
Police believe Gary Bell, apparently unable to cope with the breakdown of his 18-year marriage, may have drugged his three children, put them in his car and killed them with its exhaust fumes. The 44-year-old father died alongside his children - Bon, 18 months; Maddie, 5; and Jack, 7.
The family was known to police and the Department of Community Services. A relative who asked not to be named said Mr Bell was arrested after being violent against his wife, Karen, early on Monday.
“Police picked him up about 3 o’clock in the morning, took him to jail. Karen put an AVO on him again. Then he was let out. I don’t know how he ended back up with the kids. Karen was staying at her mum’s in Bega.”
the rest is here