Amazing, amazing, amazing.
THIS IS LABOUR GOVERNMENT
REST OF THE WORLD VERSION:
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.
The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
THE END
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LABOUR GOVERNMENT THE UK VERSION
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.
A social worker finds the shivering grasshopper, calls a press conference and demands to know why the squirrel should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like the grasshopper, are cold and starving.
The BBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper; with cuts to a video of the squirrel in his comfortable warm home with a table laden with food.
The British press inform people that they should be ashamed that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so, while others have plenty.
The Labour Party, Greenpeace, Animal Rights and The Grasshopper Council of GB demonstrate in front of the squirrel's house. The BBC, interrupting a cultural festival special from Notting Hill with breaking news, broadcasts a multi-cultural choir singing 'We shall overcome'.
Ken Livingstone rants in an interview with Trevor McDonald that the squirrel got rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the squirrel to make him pay his 'fair share' and increases the charge for squirrels to enter inner London .
In response to pressure from the media, the Government drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper anti Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The squirrel's taxes are reassessed. He is taken to court and fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as builders for the work he was doing on his home and an additional fine for contempt when he told the court the grasshopper did not want to work. The grasshopper is provided with a council house, financial aid to furnish it and an account with a local taxi firm to ensure he can be socially mobile. The squirrel's food is seized and re distributed to the more needy members of society, in this case the grasshopper.
Without enough money to buy more food, to pay the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, the squirrel has to downsize and start building a new home. The local authority takes over his old home and utilises it as a temporary home for asylum seeking cats who had hijacked a plane to get to Britain as they had to share their country of origin with mice. On arrival they tried to blow up the airport because of Britain 's apparent love of dogs.
The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking and attempted bombing but were immediately released because the police fed them pilchards instead of salmon whilst in custody. Initial moves to return them to their own country were abandoned, because it was feared they would face death by the mice. The cats devise and start a scam to obtain money from people's credit cards.
A Panorama special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the squirrel's food, though spring is still months away, while the council house he is in, crumbles around him because he hasn't bothered to maintain the house. He is shown to be taking drugs. Inadequate government funding is blamed for the grasshoppers' drug 'illness'.
The cats seek recompense in the British courts for their treatment since arrival in UK .
The grasshopper gets arrested for stabbing an old dog during a burglary to get money for his drugs habit. He is imprisoned but released immediately because he has been in custody for a few weeks. He is placed in the care of the probation service to monitor and supervise him.. Within a few weeks he has killed a guinea pig in a botched robbery.
A commission of enquiry, that will eventually cost £10,000,000 and state the obvious, is set up. Additional money is put into funding a drug rehabilitation scheme for grasshoppers and legal aid for lawyers representing asylum seekers is increased. The government praises the asylum-seeking cats for enriching Britain 's multicultural diversity, and dogs are criticised by the government for failing to befriend the cats.
The grasshopper dies of a drug overdose. The usual sections of the press blame it on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity and his traumatic experience of prison. They call for the resignation of a government minister.
The cats are paid a million pounds each because their rights were infringed when the government failed to inform them there were mice in the United Kingdom .
The squirrel, the dogs and the victims of the hijacking, the bombing, the burglaries and robberies have to pay an additional percentage on their credit cards to cover losses. Their taxes are increased to pay for law and order, and they are told that they will have to work beyond 65 because of a shortfall in government funds.
THE END
Courtesy of Sickipedia.
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The failed global ‘War on Drugs’- Alex Wodak
The Global War on Drugs. Alex Wodak.
A very detailed lecture on the failure of drug prohibition internationally. It should be noted that this guy is definitely not a libertarian, which is quite clear toward the end when he suggests alternate approaches to drugs. Regardless, interesting and valid criticism
Also, this.
"You libertines have done so much damage to this society you oughtta be ashamed of yourselves"
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USyd Campus Wireless on OS X Snow Leopard
For any of you who have upgraded your mac to Snow Leopard since its release, you'll know that the VPN client provided on the USyd website no longer works and that their ICT desk is about as much use to you as Michael Hussey is to the Australian cricket team.
You can set it up using the new built in VPN though, using the steps shown below:
- Go to 'System Preferences', then 'Network'.
- Click the '+' button to add a new profile. Set 'Interface' to 'VPN' then 'VPN Type' to 'Cisco IPSec', and 'Service Name to 'wireless' (all lower case).
- Now set the 'Server Address' to 'vpn.usyd.edu.au'. The username and password are just your UniKey details.
- Now go to 'Authentication Settings'. The 'Shared Secret' is 'jacaranda' and 'Group Name' is 'wireless' (both lower case), then click 'Ok'.
- Now click 'Apply' and then hit 'Connect'. With any luck you should be prompted for your unikey details and you'll be connected to USyd wireless. Proxy settings work as detailed on the USyd website (or as they did when you had it all working under Leopard).
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The time Landeryou threatened to sue us for defamation
Mostly because I couldn't be bothered producing original content.
Dear Young Mr Justin or is it Simon,
I am advised by one of your associates that you have claimed that I was successfully sued in relation to the liquidation of the Melbourne University Student Union Inc.
That is utterly false.
My financial situation - temporary I assure you - relate to my business dealings with the big bad Mr Solomon Lew and have nothing at all to do with the MUSU.
While it is true that there were a number of patriots were sued by a Socialist Left appointed Liquidator in nuisance lawsuits for massive amounts and settled for small payments (in the thousands of dollars against spectacular claims for millions), I believe most of the parties (including me) absolutely refused to agree to pay up anything to a fraudulent process of the kind instigated by our socialist friends.
You will find - and I encourage you to research the matter further - that no trial has yet or is ever likely to occur for the very good reason that there was no basis whatsoever to the claims made. So yes there was a lawsuit filed, and some amazingly high legal expenses on the Liquidator's part, but no trial let alone the result you imply. We vigorously defended every step of his bogus lawsuit and tormented the fucker as much as we could. A Supreme Court judge agreed we did rather a good job. He grew so upset he attempted to obtain court bans on our vigorous defence of his scandalous lawsuit. Poor fuck didn't have a clue.
For your reference:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VSC/2006/205.html (note the Judge essentially endorsed our claim that the Liquidator was pursuing the claim for non-commercial reasons)
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Landeryou-threatened-me-says-liquidator/2005/05/25/1116950754154.html
Indeed, as even the left-wing rag The Age partly correctly observed, we threatened to "do slowly" the corrupt Liquidator, a threat I believe we have, so far fulfilled with much more to come. He is and was a complete crook, attempting to use the political situation there to make himself a fortune. He got the fortune but also got a pretty big dose of grief from us which will continue until I am able to piss on his grave.(Apologies for the crude language, but as you are an engie of some kind I thought it might make it easier to follow for you)
Further, the Socialist Left appointed Liquidator will - when his final report is lodged - have to account for his expenditure of some $8 million, while recovering practically nothing from the "targets" he so publicly announced and denounced. Some of this money came from MUSU members which is bad enough, but it now appears most of it came from taxpayers via the University. If you seek a scandal, it is that, he trousered many millions and recovered essentially nothing.
Happy to discuss with you further should you wish. It saddens me that socialist propaganda of this kind has been accepted and repeated by a patriot such as yourself. Clearly this is because you are a dickhead rather than malevolent per se, so I'll forgive you this once providing you withdraw your false claims and apologise.
If it happens again, I suppose you know what happens next.
Andrew
PS Feel free to call me should you wish on 0415 99 33 26
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A Political Quiz
Based on my interactions with those around me I have decided that some have some interesting points of view, and that we need to explore just how widely held these are. Thus I'm asking those who read this to answer a few questions to figure out just how much of a scatter we have on these issues:
- Was Obama born in Kenya? Is he a Muslim? What other characteristics, if any, does he possess which have not been reported by the mainstream media?
- Is water fluoridation dangerous? If so, do you believe that those who are doing it are doing so for malicious purposes? If yes, explain further.
- Are we headed towards one world government? If so, what involvement do the Jews have, if any?
- Was 9/11 caused by anything other than four planes piloted by muslim terrorists crashing into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania respectively? If so, what was the cause of this destruction and who was behind it? Do you think there has been a cover up about Building 7?
- What other conspiracy theories, if any, do you subscribe to?
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Smackdown Sunday: Cameron Mclean: Woolies employee for life
This post is written to all future employers of Cameron Mclean, currently completing a B Commerce in Marketing at Macquarie University, Australia, Oakhill College graduate 2007 and whose facebook profile claims (facetiously it would seem) that he is to be a lifelong employee of Woolworths.
However where it gets disturbing is when he's put on the subject of Barack Obama:
That's right. He thinks Obama is a Kenyan Muslim who was ineligible to stand for the presidency.
Enjoy Centrelink, fuckwit.
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Shameless Self-Promotion
I was cordially asked by the man himself, Tim Andrews, a few days ago to write a blog post on police powers.
It's for the Libertarians in Australia, and it exists... HERE.
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