Apr 25
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JimWallaceACL Just hope that as we remember Servicemen and women today we remember the Australia they fought for – wasn’t gay marriage and Islamic! 25/04/11 10:24 AM |
Jim Wallace of the Australian Christian Lobby showing that he really is the biggest arse hole in Australian politics.
And yet our politicians constantly yield to this man’s demands.
Jim Wallace, The List is too good for you.
While we still don’t know who will be forming government in this country, the polls are closed and the Australian people have spoken. It was a long, painful and frankly boring campaign. Few policies were announced, even fewer were properly debated and overall I feel somewhat dumber for the whole experience.
But there were a few exceptional people leading up to and during the campaign. People who worked tirelessly to make this country a much worse place. With all the election analysis going around I’m afraid that these people might not get the recognition they deserve, which is why here at Groupthink I would like to pay my respects to these tireless individuals.
Nick Minchin
It would be easy to focus on Tony Abbott as the public face of the operation, but Minchin is the real mastermind of this. The ALP may have their faceless warlords, but the LIberal party have the eminently punchable face of Nick Minchin conducting their party room wars. The sight of an enthusiastic and happy Minchin on election night sent shivers down my spine.
The NSW ALP Right
It’s almost like the ALP had a meeting, sat down at a table, looked each other in the eyes and said “Fuck it, I don’t want to win this election”. So they disposed of a leader, backflipped on key policy issues then went screaming eyes shut to the right of every debate. And leading this blind stupidity was the faceless men of the NSW right. I don’t understand how you couldn’t say “our policies, which the opposition voted against have kept Australia out of recession” or “compared to every other developed economy our debt is unbelievably low and because we kept Australia out of recession we will be able to pay it back faster than any other economy, if it were a Liberal government there would have been no stimulus package, a recession and Australia would have slid further into debt”. They were up against Abbott, totally unelectable and became leader of his party by only 1 vote. It’s not exactly a difficult sales pitch. But no, the ALP did everything they could to fucking piss this election up against the wall.
Mark Latham
Utter, utter cunt.
Laurie Oaks
His dressing down of Latham aside, Oaks had a shameful campaign. Just in case the campaign didn’t have enough distractions, there he was at every turn with another leak flowing from his arse. Did you know that members of the same party occasionally had differences of opinion of policy issues in the party room? Because I expected that, but Oaks seemed to think it was a big deal. Which seems rather naive for a man who has been around Canberra for so long.
The Media
That’s right, all of you. The shit media coverage and the shite they called journalism has been well and truly covered here at Groupthink already.
The Young Liberals
This shameless little stunt pretty much ensured your place on the list, you grubby little turds.
While there are plenty more I’d like to mention I am out of time for today.
But feel free to rant about your favourite bad guys of the 2010 election in the comments.
Three ACL related blog posts in 2 weeks. I really need to stop reading articles that mention them because they are very bad for my health. I promise that I will stop mentioning them here after today.*
The Australian asked the ACL for a comment on Julia Gillard’s statements about her lack of religion or religious belief. The ACL obliged.
THE Australian Christian Lobby has warned that Julia Gillard might have alienated Christian voters by declaring she does not believe in God.
Julia is alienating Christian voters with such provocative statements like:
“I am, of course, a great respecter of religious beliefs, but they’re not my beliefs”
“For people of faith, I think the greatest compliment I could pay them is to respect their genuinely-held beliefs and not to engage in some pretence about mine.”
And what reasonably minded Christian wouldn’t be alienated by that kind of statement? Such thoughtfulness, tolerance and respect. It sickens me. How dare she respect their beliefs by not pretending to hold them for political gain.
And it’s not like the ACL would ever encourage politicians to alienate any group of people. Especially not gays, non-Christians, women, refugees and even some Christians. That’s just not their style.
My favourite part of the article was this quote from ACL spokesman Lyle Shelton:
“I think she’s being honest and true to herself. Obviously, that position will alienate some in the Christian community and some in the wider Australian community.”
Yes, as a member of the “wider Australian community” I am always aliened when people are “honest and true” to themselves.
Dicks.
*Unless they do something that really, really, really raises my blood pressure.
UPDATE: Lyle Shelton’s appearance this morning on Sunrise. Peddling the same disingenuous bull-shit that we have come to expect from the ACL.
Lyle, you just made the list.
Jun 22
Does Alastair MacGibbon work for an Anti-Virus company, own-shares in an Anti-Virus company, or is he just an idiot?
A prominent cyber-security consultant, Alastair MacGibbon, who is a former director of the AFP’s Australian High Tech Crime Centre and eBay’s former security chief, has called for the proposal to be taken a step further by forcing ISPs to monitor the security of users’ machines and block them from connecting if their browsers, security and operating system software are not up to standard.
Really? REALLY!?
He wants to block people from accessing the internet if they don’t pay ridiculous subscription fees for crippling anti-virus programs. MacGibbon must think we are all chumps.
There is software available, which could be on end-user machines, that would allow my ISP, as I log in, to check that I have my firewall turned on, that I have an antivirus that [it] approves or recommends installed on my computer, and that my operating system and browser are patched. And if those things aren’t met, then [my ISP would not] give me [access]
Only allow me on the Internet if I have an Anti-Virus that my ISP approves? I think Anti-Virus companies would like that alot.
But doesn’t that open up some more problems, like what if my ISP could approve, say, Norton but not Trend Micro because Norton paid the ISP huge kickbacks? And don’t think it’s something that anti-virus companies wouldn’t do.
Alastair MacGibbon, you just made the list.
