“according to Arabic-language and Islamic experts, the ring Obama has been wearing for more than 30 years is adorned with the first part of the Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahada: “There is no god except Allah.’
Diana West

Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality. By Theodore Dalrymple
‘In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the hidden sentimentality that is suffocating public life. Under the multiple guises of raising children well, caring for the underprivileged, assisting the less able and doing good generally, we are achieving quite the opposite for the single purpose of feeling good about ourselves. Dalrymple takes the reader on both an entertaining and at times shocking journey through social, political, popular and literary issues as diverse as child tantrums, aggression, educational reform, honour killings, sexual abuse, Che Guevara, Eric Segal, Romeo and Juliet, the McCanns, public emotions and the role of suffering, and shows the perverse results when we abandon logic in favour of the cult of feeling.’
Too right! What Hitchens called “the Dianafication of grief” isn’t just unseemly, it degrades and devalues genuine grief, as though candle-lit vigils and piles of teddy bears and balloons at the scene of the latest tragedy had some real meaning, as though hundreds of people turning up to the funeral of somebody none of them knew means a damn thing.
Ersatz grief in an ersatz media-driven society….

Thanks to Robert for this.

Perth:
‘A GANG of gatecrashers assaulted four people and smashed up nine cars at a social function in Balga last night.
Police say the thugs tried to force their way into the Balga Soccer and Social Club function on Princess Road about 8pm.
……..Dozens of children and women at the event had been left traumatised, club officials said this morning…
The gatecrashers of African descent arrived at the club and demanded entry but were refused.’ via Andrew Bolt
The proponents of multiculturalism are very, very quiet about incidents such as this. And there are a lot of these incidents to be quiet about…
Until Aussies get together and deal to the bastards kinetically, the problem will continue.

‘Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released… and here is the chart to prove it
•    The figures reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012 there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures
•    This means that the ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996
…The new data, compiled from more than 3,000 measuring points on land and sea, was issued  quietly on the internet, without any media fanfare, and, until today, it has not been reported.
This stands in sharp contrast  to the release of the previous  figures six months ago, which went only to the end of 2010 – a very warm year.’

A stiff and slightly sore Wabbit this morning, after a practice session with the 50lb longbow. It was fun, though.
UPDATE: Redbaiter has a good post up. ‘God haters channeling Karl Marx’

‘CHEAP wine will be banned under a federal health agency’s plan to make drinkers pay at least $8-$10 for a bottle of booze, in a bid to stop cheap drunks binging on discount drinks..’               source
Because we’re naughty children, you see and it’s necessary to punish the whole population for the actions of a few idiots. The wowsers lobby government (with our money) and government obligingly changes the law or brings in new laws, because that will increase revenue and give the impression they’re doing something useful. Now watch for the unintended consequences of this bullshit….illicit (and sometimes poisonous) booze, increased consumption of other drugs. And still politicians will be able to get pissed on their taxpayer-subsidised drinks.

Joshua Chamberlain..a remarkable man.

Julia Gillard. Prime Minister:  corrupt, or at minimum, incompetent.
Nicola Roxon. Attorney General. Incompetent and blatantly partisan.
Anna Burke: Speaker. Incompetent and blatantly partisan.

Great advertisement for the sisterhood, aren’t they?
UPDATE:        The reek of a large rodent