‘U.S. and international gay rights supporters called on Friday for a boycott of Italian pasta maker Barilla, whose chairman said he would never feature a gay family in its advertising. The comments sparked a firestorm of protest on social media..’

“Social media”, eh…the playground of spotty adolescents, dribbling idiots and the terminally bored. How much social policy is being shaped around this ignorant gaggle of leprous opinionated jackals?
Progressives  regressives have learned to use this tool in the culture wars and the majority of users are too thick and too indoctrinated to realise it. The herd mentality is alive and lethal.

‘When a black 23-year old North Carolina man, Lakim Anthony Faust, shot four white people near a Wal-Mart last June, the story barely lasted 12 hours in the news cycle. Naturally, USA Today and various other sources covering the shooting left out key details like the races of the victims and the perpetrator. Greenville Police Chief Hassan Aden was quoted at the time as saying the shooter picked his four targets “at random.”
……..Well, that was all folks, until this past Monday when a grand jury indicted Faust on 14 charges including four counts of attempted first-degree murder. The motive? The signed documents stated the shooter picked his victims by “race, color, religion, nationality, or country of origin.”
…..Why are Obama’s slaves in the mainstream press suddenly willing to focus on the race factor in this black-on-white crime?
…..When investigator[s] searched Faust’s apartment at 217 Hartford St. in Greenville, they seized a copy of the Qur’an, the holy text of Islam, and other Muslim books, warrants stated….’

‘Australia failed to send help: survivor
A SURVIVOR of yesterday’s asylum-seeker boat horror says he called Australia 10 times in 24 hours pleading for help “and they didn’t come”…’

So bloody what. These illegal invaders think they have a right to be rescued by Australians, at Australian taxpayer’s expense, when they’re  practically within sight of Indonesia!
In the Aussie vernacular..get stuffed. We owe you nothing, asshole, except a jail cell and rapid deportation should you make it to Australian shores.

 Filched from Francis Porretto

‘Soldiers of Islam Biker Gang Terrorizes Australia’s Gold Coast
and:
‘They call themselves MBM – the Muslim Brotherhood Movement – a gang of 600 men who boast they are the toughest and best young street fighters of Middle Eastern descent in Sydney.But the objectives of MBM – its emblem features two crossed pistols and a hand grenade – and its leadership remain unclear to officers of both the Organised Crime and Gang Squad and Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad.’
Of course, this is all over the Aussie media….not.

It is with great sorrow that I have to tell you Medusa passed away on Thursday 26 September.

She was an amazing individual, one of a kind.
Those of us who knew her well knew she had a mind like a razor and a tongue to match.

I was blessed to have been married to her for all too short a time.  She will be sorely missed.

Michael in Nelson

at last!
Update, via Andrew Bolt:
‘ From the non-plussed ABC:

Suyanto, the head of operations at the Jakarta office of Indonesia’s rescue agency Basarna…says he does not know why Australia did not take the asylum seekers to Christmas Island.One of the boat’s crew members, Azam, says the boat was not broken, despite passengers calling Australia to be rescued. He says the Navy set fire to the boat at sea.

The passengers and crew have been returned to the Indonesian mainland.

An interception of this kind, where the Australian Navy hands asylum seekers back to Indonesian authorities after being asked to assist in their rescue, only happened once during the six years of the last Labor government. On all other occasions the people rescued were taken to Christmas Island.’
No matter HOW close the boat was to Indonesia when the bastards rang the R.A.N. Taxi Service.

here in Australia

‘Islamic fanatics behind Kenya massacre in massive UK terror plot’    source
Perhaps the Archbishop will pray for them when it happens.  And personally speak to the families of the victims, suggesting they forgive the murderers of their loved ones.