Archives for the 'Australia' Category
Homo Wimpy-ens
Published on 21 Oct 2009 at 11:05 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Australia, Neanderthals, ancient mysteries, anthronerdism, men.
That’s what you’ve evolved into, if you’re a bloke, according to “Manthropology: The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male.”
Anzac Day
Published on 25 Apr 2009 at 11:51 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Australia, history, military.
April 25 is Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand, marking the landings at Gallipoli in 1915 and the disastrous campaign there. Churchill’s idea for a second front went badly wrong, and he ended up resigning as First Lord of the Admiralty. The deaths of thousands of diggers at Gallipoli became a galvanizing event that helped establish [...]
Counterinsurgency Primer
Published on 16 Mar 2009 at 9:33 am.
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Filed under Australia, GWOT, military.
Max Boot at WSJ on David Kilcullen’s The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, ranks it among the classics of war.
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Lunatic Ninja Roo Wrestled From Home
Published on 9 Mar 2009 at 12:45 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Australia.
Bloodied Swiss-Australian in shredded underwear gives 5′9” clawed intruder the bum’s rush. via Yahoo:
“My initial thought when I was half awake was, ‘It’s a lunatic ninja coming through the window … It seems about as likely as a kangaroo breaking in.”
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Kiwi Humor
Published on 22 Feb 2009 at 12:14 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under Australia, NZ, mockery.
Becomes a cult hit in the U.S. Who would have thought. The latest Flight of the Conchords episode about Kiwi-Australian relations, “Unnatural Love,” is like a shocking docudrama on this tortured relationship.
Green Policy, Scorched Earth
Published on 11 Feb 2009 at 9:13 pm.
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Filed under Australia, warmalism.
Burned-out, grieving relatives blame a suburban Melbourne council’s no-cut policy for out-of-control brushfires. Warwick Spooner, brother of the late Damien and son of the late Marilyn, via The Age:
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Fire Hot
Published on 10 Feb 2009 at 10:17 pm.
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Filed under Australia, warmalism.
This time, the evidence is actually warm, as warmalists seize on disaster, though there is an inconvenient temp shift involved. Warmalism and Australia’s deadly brushfires … fueled by human-caused global warmth, eased by flukish Australian summer cooling. Scorching mockery by Blair.
Rule No. 1 Amended
Published on 4 Feb 2009 at 8:46 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Australia, Britain, booze.
New age tolerance championed at the Royal Mail Hotel in Meekatharra, W.A., via Spark:
Spark are also has fun with Australia’s empty trophy cabinet, while Down Under, that damned colonial Blair cruelly mocks English drivers.
A Digger’s VC
Published on 16 Jan 2009 at 8:30 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Australia, courage.
Aussie SAS trooper/dad Mark Donaldson drew Taliban fire to save his wounded mates. The Australian:
Great News!
Published on 7 Jan 2009 at 9:22 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Australia, Obama.
John Howard, erstwhile Oz PM, towering figure of moral strength and clarity, stalwart ally, is coming to D.C. for a victory lap with Tony Blair and George Bush. Oh yeah, and that’s why the Messiah wasn’t allowed to ascend to Blair House ahead of time. WPost’s a little snippy about it:
Boob Vs. Boobs
Published on 30 Dec 2008 at 10:48 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Australia, Islam, boobs, moronocy.
Shocking news of my ancestral island via Jawa. NSW MP Fred Nile wants to ban topless sunbathing on Sydney’s beaches to avoid offending Muslim men. It’s a blanket boob ban that would burkha the beaches Down Under. Sydney Morning Herald.
De Tocqueville Learns How To Say G’Day
Published on 3 Nov 2008 at 12:40 pm.
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Filed under Australia, booze, pols.
Yet another astute foreign observer. Tim Blair, here from my ancestral island, with a clear view from the land where water goes down the toilet the other way. “The A-Z of the U.S. Election” (Pronounce that “Zed” for added fair dinkumness) and “For Whom Will Union Square Halloweeners Vote in 2008?“
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Grand Old Party
Published on 29 Oct 2008 at 10:52 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Australia, Obama, blogs, mockery.
Sounds like what Iowahawk and Tim Blair have in mind in Obamatown. iHawk:
Award-winning Australian journalist Tim Blair of the Sydney Daily Telegraph is currently en route to Chicago where he will make base camp at my shack to cover Chicago election night folderol for readers back Down Under …. will be joining Tim on assignment Tuesday [...]
Afghans Against Talibanism
Published on 24 Oct 2008 at 4:35 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Australia, Taliban, courage.
Thousands march in protest of Taliban murders. Voice of America:
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Loonie Left Fringe Extinct
Published on 21 Sep 2008 at 1:29 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under America, Australia, Britain, pols.
UK Telegraph reports hopefully, noting that Britain’s surrender enthusiasts are choking on surge success. “Top 100 Left Wingers: Success is More Stable Than Failure.” h/t Tim Blair, who reports the loonie left is alive and well in the Antipodes … hey, can we sentence ours to transportation? The delusional left is alive and well in these 13 other former British [...]
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Sheilas Get Ugly Over Mayor’s Gaffe
Published on 19 Aug 2008 at 12:54 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under Australia, men, shameless opportunism, women.
Aussie mayor touts ugly opportunities in beautiful Mount Isa, Queensland. He might be on to something, if he lives through the next week. Sky News starts the roundup of this important, developing story:
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Eye Gouge vs. Shark
Published on 12 May 2008 at 9:57 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under Australia, sharks.
Plucky Aussie swimmer pokes a Great White in the eye and lives. The Australian:
Blair is Dead, Long Live Blair
Published on 12 May 2008 at 10:36 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Australia, blogs.
Farewell to www.timblair.net Great Australian blog of which this one is a pale spinoff has shifted digs. Ignore the cruel remarks about selling out, Tim … I’m confident that great Australian-American entrepreneur, Rupert Murdoch, doesn’t needlessly toss around the manhole covers for blog duty.
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Digger Down
Published on 28 Apr 2008 at 11:51 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Afghanistan, Australia.
LCpl. Jason Marks, 4th Battalion (Commando), 27, dad of two, killed in Afghanistan. Several other diggers wounded but as usual, the Taliban apparently got the worst of it. Widow Cassandra Marks: ”All he ever wanted to do was join the army. He was the type of man who knew what he wanted, even from the age of 12. [...]
Anzac Day
Published on 24 Apr 2008 at 11:48 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under Australia, NZ.
Dawns shortly here, underway in Oz and NZ. A reprise post, with update, re the disaster and the national identity it helped define follows:
Quote of the Week
Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 7:07 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Australia, moronocy.
Amphibian rights category, Queensland division:
Cowardly Tub
Published on 16 Mar 2008 at 8:34 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under Australia.
Located. It’s the dastardly Nazi raider that was masquerading as a Dutch freighter when it sank HMAS Sydney with loss of all on board. An Oz govt-funded search seeking Sydney found the filthy schnitzel bucket 8,000 feet deep in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia. SMH.
Waltzing Mathilda vs. Gaia
Published on 9 Mar 2008 at 7:41 am.
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Filed under Australia, history, song, warmalism.
A V-8 sings it. That and more musical news via Tim Blair.
In other important Australian news, archaeologists in Melbourne have found a hole in the ground and they think Ned Kelly’s in it, along with a bunch of other crims.
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Aussie Epic
Published on 28 Feb 2008 at 8:10 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under Australia.
It’s an Australian tale of endurance, mateship, survival and loss, revolving around an esky with a feat of great swimsmanship. AFP:
Frog Affronted
Published on 12 Feb 2008 at 9:40 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under America, Australia, Britain, France, moronocy.
Support the Dissident Frogman’s campaign for compensation from Her Majesty’s Government for all the centuries of anti-Froggism: Exhibit A in the Frogman’s case. Hey, if they’re doling out $$$ for cultural slams, then as an first-generation Australian-American … small but fiercely proud minorioty … I’ll take mine in beer.
Tim’s Hat Parade
Published on 10 Feb 2008 at 11:40 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Australia.
Australians have long been defined by their hats.
Blair, no slouch in the headgear department, exercises some hat speech:
(Not for the smaller hat-sized or those who wear them too tight).
Manly Flowers, Hilarious Organ Spillage
Published on 6 Feb 2008 at 2:15 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under Australia, blogs.
It’s all part of Tim’s recovery, along with a couple of young lovelies. The flowers from an unquestionably hetero infidel Crusader dog in Afghanistan are great, very touching. But it’s the hilarious organ spillage upon sudden brakeage that has caught my imagination. It’s got a bit of a Max Fleischer* sound to it.
*St. James Infirmary Blues only. Whole [...]
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Well Armed
Published on 27 Jan 2008 at 10:38 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Australia, blogs.
Good thing, because apparently that’s all that’s left of Blair.
Blair Re The Big C
Published on 23 Jan 2008 at 9:12 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Australia, blogs.
Daily Telegraph. As much detail as you’ll need and more on Tim’s fight with cancer, up to surgery. Updates on his condition in the massive comment stream.* Break a leg, Tim.
* link fixed, thanks Becks.
Blair
Published on 22 Jan 2008 at 9:32 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Australia, blogs.
Goes under the knife. Hang in there, Tim.
Pre-9/11 Era
Published on 24 Nov 2007 at 8:46 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Australia.
Another one of the original three who stood up, Bush, Blair and Howard, is gone. Australia votes Labor. Good luck with that.
Non-Talking Points
Published on 2 Nov 2007 at 8:32 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Australia, Iraq.
It isn’t just the United States Congress that would rather not discuss Iraq right now. The loyal opposition isn’t interested in talking about it much in Australia, either. Bolt, Oz Daily Telegraph:
Line of Duty
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 1:13 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under Afghanistan, Australia.
Aussie bomb-sniffing dog killed, three diggers injured by IED in Afghanistan.
“Razz helped identify where the bomb was placed and sadly paid the ultimate price for his actions.”
Razz was the second Australian explosive-detection dog killed in Afghanistan this month.
h/t Tim Blair
Pinkie vs. Leadfoot
Published on 22 Aug 2007 at 8:57 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Australia.
Aussie authorities enlist cruel mockery to curtail testosterone-charged road hazards:
RAN vs. Iran
Published on 22 Jun 2007 at 9:46 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Australia, Iran, military.
Royal Australian Navy wins:
Yer Gotta Learn How to Say G’Day
Published on 9 Jun 2007 at 10:20 pm.
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Filed under Australia, linguistics.
Speak Strine like an Aussie:
“Mate.” (compliments of Heinrichs)
“Mate.” (compliments of Blair)
“Dude.” (compliments of Driscoll)
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“Adventure of a Lifetime”
Published on 20 May 2007 at 8:14 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under Australia, GWOT.
Australian Taliban David Hicks/Muhammad Dawood, waltzing Mathilda once more, ”eight years after he left his Adelaide home for the adventure of a lifetime in Pakistan.” Killing infidels, global jihad … such a grand adventure!
More from the Sydney Morning Herald:
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Anzac Day
Published on 25 Apr 2007 at 12:52 am.
23 Comments.
Filed under Australia.
April 25 is Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand, marking the landings at Gallipoli in 1915 and the disastrous campaign there. Churchill’s idea for a second front went badly wrong, and he ended up resigning as First Lord of the Admiralty. The deaths of thousands of diggers at Gallipoli became a galvanizing event that helped establish [...]
Tie Me Kangaroo-Skinner Down, Sport
Published on 28 Mar 2007 at 12:17 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Australia.
By now everyone knows that David Hicks, wayfaring kangaroo-skinning larrikin, has been broken by the hated Crusaders in their gulag at Guantanamo. Who better to celebrate the confession of an Australian supporter of terrorism with than other Australians?
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The Wondah Down Undah
Published on 23 Feb 2007 at 11:43 pm.
15 Comments.
Filed under Australia, Cheney, Iran, Iraq, al qaeda.
Cheney, in an interview with The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan, puts another shrimp on the barbie:
Affinity Soul-Deep
Published on 23 Feb 2007 at 9:10 am.
12 Comments.
Filed under Australia, Cheney, Uncategorized.
Our Dark Lord Cheney in Oz, heralds the deep bond of the soul between two great nations.
“Australia and America share an affinity that reaches to our souls.”
Brits Split
Published on 20 Feb 2007 at 11:50 pm.
13 Comments.
Filed under Australia, Britain, Iraq, military, pols.
Brits are halving their force in Iraq. Tony Blair, who long fought within his own party to do the right thing in Iraq, is giving in to political forces he is no longer willing to fight. He’s leaving himself soon enough, so he might as well set the terms for the British draw down, to leave [...]
These Are My People
Published on 16 Feb 2007 at 11:20 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Australia, Uncategorized.
Drunken South Australia man wrestles an 8-foot shark over bait, wins, brings shark home to the wife to cook for dinner. Just another reason to be insanely proud of my Australian heritage.
You Want It? You Got It.
Published on 15 Feb 2007 at 12:24 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Australia, USA.
Here’s one of my ancestral countrywomen, Janet Albrechtsen, who draws on a couple of sources, putting very well what myself and others, notably P.J. O’Rourke, have been saying for years.
The real reason they hate us is because our … I mean, we’re … bigger than they are. It’s all bigger, and that’s what they just can’t stand it.
Read ‘You Want It? You Got It.’
The Wild Colonial Brawl
Published on 14 Feb 2007 at 12:19 am.
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Filed under Australia, beer.
Jimbo at Blackfive, in honor of Australians, embarks on an international pubcrawl heavy on the brawls:
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Osama Hearts Obama
Published on 11 Feb 2007 at 9:47 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under Australia, Iraq, pols.
Update below: Obama talks back at Howard, can’t count any better than his aide.
Australian PM John Howard says Al Qaeda in Iraq would love to see Barack Obama win, with his thoughtfully crafted, militarily and geopolitically sound “Abandon Hope! Run!” strategy for Iraq. Could be. Dems have informed us in the past that the head office, [...]
Bacon vs. Bush
Published on 2 Feb 2007 at 10:51 pm.
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Filed under Australia, Bush, GWOT, Uncategorized.
Tim is Hicks blogging … that would be David Hicks, Australian moron/jihadi, currently a guest of the United States Government at Guantanamo.
Reader SezaGeoff emailed last night:
I have just returned from the Roger Waters concert in Melbourne. Not a bad do, but I had to laugh during a track from Animals when they had a large [...]
