Is this slapper the new Pauline Hanson?

Kate McCulloch was front row centre when it came to denouncing the planned Islamic School in Camden.

Her idiotic comments regarding Muslims, welfare, and crime were certainly no shock. If you were present at Cronulla on December 11, 2005 you would certainly be aware that these rabid "arguments" are very common.

McCulloch's comments were entirely predicted, just like her answer to the question of her future political career.

"I would like to keep our place like it is and I guess [joining the] Liberals would be natural,"

.

She would be right at home in the NSW Libs.

Keep talking you vile cow.

This is worse than tabloid

I really feel sorry for trashy magazine companies that sell there shite at the supermarket check outs. They are under serious financial threat from News Limited's online addition.

Have a look at the top stories across the nation.

Herald Sun
Sam 'needs year of therapy'
'Carey girl' in scam claim
News legend's son dies
'Sex slave' teacher in court
City diners hit by virus
Chopper catches glimpse of lost...
Hitman's vampire murder link
Killer snaps that trapped a...
GPS units giving dodgy directions
Murray a 'drug and sex addict':...

Daily Telegraph
Sexy pic trapped cheating killer...
Mercedes cheers, Power's tears
Wayne Carey girl 'a prostitute...
Just another manic Mike day
Ronaldo's love in topless snaps
View today's home page

The Courier Mail
Storms heading for Brisbane
Lost tribe found in Amazon
Big Brother in courtroom
'Sex slave' teacher in court
Church labelled celebrity cult


AdelaideNow
'Dirty' girl a firm believer in...
Meeting the 'dirtiest' girl in porn
Couple dumps 'wrong sex' baby twins
Corby says Seven must learn lesson
Sam Newman feeling the pain

PerthNow
Rinehart's near death escape
One $50m Powerball please . . .
Rare glimpse of hidden tribe
Newman needs 'year of therapy'
Siege ends in gunshots, arrest

The Australian
Howard aide asked Bush on Iraq:...
World faces decade of high food...
Bouris backflips on Wizard
To hell and back for child sex...
Friendship the loser as Corby wins


News.com.au
Seven settles Corby defamation case
Not all ministers driven by...
Miracle baby may be a world first
Pleas to leave lost Amazon tribe...
Best and worst movie pick-up lines

After reading all that crap, what do vacuumous ninnies browse when they are getting their hair done?

The footy show

I've thought about this a lot, and I don't think I will be watching the footy show without Sam Newman tonight!

Thank you and good night.

Heir Penberthy.

When the Camden council caved into the local KKKites, the Daily Terror opened up a forum to really tarnish our international reputation.

The rednecks went nuts, especially the "I'm not a racist, but..." types.

"This is not an Islamic country,lets keep it that way.If these poeple are so hell bent on there religious beleifs,go back to where you come from."

"Rather than giving us a bad image overseas, countries like Britain, France and Holland will be cheering us on."

"Democracy has spoken now suck it up, if you don't like it, bugger off!"

"we ARE a Christian nation - we always have been and will continue to be for a long time to come. Australia was founded on the European Christian/Judaio faith - after all it was settled by Christians in the early 1800's and until the majority of our population follows some other religion, then it will remain a Christian nation !"

I could go on, but you get the picture.

Am I the only one who thinks the Daily Telegraph's editor, David Penberthy, would gladly model his online edition on Stormfront/Who Magazine if it meant an increase in traffic?

Property market crash?

Dammit, Why did I buy a house on the coast? The value of my house is going to plummet according to property market guru, Cr Ron Humphrey.

"Cr Humphrey said continuous rate hikes would cripple the Surf Coast's property market. "Now is not the time to belt people with big rate rises," he said."

Let's just ignore Ron's claim that rates are going to rise by 20%. Try very hard to understand Ron's logic.

Firstly, Rowdy Ronnie Humphrey argues that rates are going to go through the roof because increased property valuations. That hardly seems like an indication of a market crash.

Then Cr H argues that increased rates bills, in combination with petrol prices and public transport (or lack of), "will have a big impact where people live" and the "property market will crash."

So using Ron's argument about rates being a major factor in property market prices, when Ron's crash happens, rates of course will crash as well, making the Surf Coast a desirable place to live again, which of course will push up property prices. Even a year 7 economics student gets the concept of supply and demand.

It gets worse.

Ron argues that fuel prices will make the Surf Coast a less desirable place to live because it is away from a CBD. I can just see all the people who live and work in Torquay, Anglesea, and Winchelsea moving to expensive houses in the CBD and then commuting to the coast because of high petrol prices.

And this little pearl of wisdom from Ron is just absurd. Due to fuel prices and rate rises "...there is a possibility we will become a place for just retirees and holiday makers and then the property market will crash." This ignores the fact that rate rises hit people on fixed incomes (like retirees) harder than any section of the community. And more homes filled with holiday makers of course doesn't mean a rise or a fall in property prices, and it certainly doesn't mean a market crash.

The simple fact is, housing prices are determined by supply and demand which is determined by multiple factors. eg Interest rates, size of homes, population growth, negative gearing, capital gains tax, availability of skilled labour, sub-prime schemes in the USA, wage rates, lack of competition in the Australian banking sector, available land, divorce rates, CPI, crime rates in specific locations. etc etc etc.

To say property values are going to collapse due to rising rates and petrol prices is idiotic. The coastal strip will always be a desirable place to live, and who is buying the houses, (be they retirees, holiday makers, or families) means diddly squat when it comes to property values.

But hey, if anyone on the coast supports Ron's property market collapse theory, leave your address in the comments section and I will come and buy your house for 20% under market value. It is a very generous offer.

Rudd's Cluster fuck

Cluster bombs are evil.
And any one who buys them is a cunt.
That makes Brendon Nelson a cunt of the highest order (PDF) for spending $14 million dollars of our money on these weapons that discriminate in favour of killing innocent children.

You would think that our new PM would work his butt off supporting a proposed worldwide ban on these evil weapons at a convention in Dublin.

But Kevin isn't a golden boy all the time.

It's a national disgrace Australia is actively undermining the treaty because the Labor Government still wants to use the weapons that keep killing well after the enemy has left the area.

If Kevin Rudd can logically reconcile his government's stance on this issue and his "Christian" values, I will run around parliament butt naked on the coldest winter day of 2008.

Brendan's bad but Turnbull's Terrible

Watching Brendan Nelson lurch from one crisis to another is a great spectator sport but the number 1 candidate to replace him is just as bad, if not worse than the guy with "a forehead the size of King Island.*

As fuel prices predictable rise at rapid rates, Turnbull has come up with two profoundly stupid policies to reduce prices at the bowser.

The first was the belated "support" for a fuel excise reduction that puts a big hole on the budget, and the second was exempting fuel from the carbon trading scheme.

These policies are awesome testaments to short term head-in-the-sand tabloid politics aimed squarely at people who can't see the big picture.

Turnbull and Nelson aren't complete idiots. They know global warming is very serious, they know fuel prices are going to continue to rise rapidly, and they know exemptions to one specific fuel to carbon pricing totally undermines the entire carbon trading system. That of course hasn't stopped the Libs offering policies that will ensure Australia will be placed at a massive competitive disadvantage in the future.

Australia is more reliant on fossil fuel than virtually every western country in the world. This is the result of cultural, geographic and political factors. Our governments have done virtually nothing to wean us off the black smack. Public transport's a joke, our scientists leave the country in droves due to lack of funding for renewable energy, we still build suburbs in paddocks miles away from anything, and our car industry is based around unbelievably irresponsible V6 and V8 vehicles.

You can hardly blame inner city bike commuters to use the "suck shit fool" argument against people who put a quarter of their wage in the petrol tank.

Give me a government that says, "petrol prices are going to hit $3 a litre and we are damn lucky the Aussie dollar is so high at the moment."

"We need to plan for the future at all levels of government, and we should have done this 15 years ago when it was obvious petrol prices shortages and climate change were going to be problems."

Is that too much to ask for?


*line stolen from Club Wah

Hang your heads in shame Geelong Advertiser editorial writers.

My local tabloid rag has outdone themselves with the dog whistle today with this putrid editorial about immigration.

The vile swine who wrote this editorial basically argues that the Labor "Government's playing its hand (rapidly increasing the immigration intake) very quietly". This of course is utter crap, with immigration minister Evans announcing his desire for a wide ranging open debate on this matter.

Clearly the writer hasn't got a clue what he or she is on about so it's time to call in an expert. Enter Professor Andrew Markus from Monash University.

Markus has had a stella career in academia writing about social cohesion. You can see his latest paper here. It essentially paints a rosey picture of how Australians are seeing immigrants of less of a threat and have embraced the concept of a fair go to migrants.

Markus also argues that the government must continue to outline the benefits of immigration to help improve social cohesion.
The Advertiser then insults the man's work by putting him in the same paragraph as the racist academic Geoffrey Blainey. Blainey for those who are too young to remember whipped up an anti-Asian storm in the 1984 claiming the country would see "Asianisation". The "take over" didn't eventuate and Blainey went on to be a well-paid and thoroughly disgraced cultural warrior.

But I have digressed.

The Advertiser went from terrible to fucking truly horrific by writing, after the warnings of a social backlash, Australia "has witnessed this outcome in disturbing social disruption such as the Cronulla riots and other race-related incidents."

This social disruption has come virtually entirely from ugly white rednecks egged on by bile spilling people in the media. It isn't of course the fault of immigration or immigrants but why let the victims get in the way of a stupid editorial.

The editorial finishes with a good old conspiracy theory about "one million newcomers in just four years is a matter that requires open discussion on numerous fronts _ not a backdoor, buried-in-the-Budget approached that seeks to achieve such massive social and industrial change by stealth."

I defy anyone to come up with a more pitiful editorial in any paper in Australia.

Wooooohoooooo the Libs won something

In the nicer suburbs of Geelong, the Libs have had their first election win in years.

Yes, a Liberal candidate actually won a bye-election for a council seat. I know it's hard to believe but it's true.

This "magnificent victory" happened about a week ago but the celebrations haven't stopped.

In today's Geelong Liberal (sorry Independent) the letters section was filled with conservative whoopee for the triumphant Andrew Katos.

Let's have a serious look at the results.

Katos got 33% of the vote in Geelong's most conservative area, and he will have to re-contest his seat in 6 months. It's hardly a win for the true believers, but when the Libs are a running joke across the country, the old dears need to cheer something.

While I don't know much about Katos, I do know his plans to provide water to Geelong, by building dams in the Otways are idiotic. Water policy was his first real foray into political debate as an elected official and he came up short, real short.

Katos doesn't actually mention which river in the Otways gets a dam but the Geelong Liberal (sorry Independent) helps out by writing, "In the 1980s Barwon Water bought land, which it still owns, in the Otways for a new dam."

This land of course is on Dewings Creek which barely flows even at the best of times.

So the Katos plan to provide water for Geelong is to dam a river that doesn't flow and wait for rain. This rain of course would fill the massive West Barwon Reservoir, making the new dam utterly obsolete.

BUT WAIT. The Libs and the other pro-dam wackos could also build weirs on the Gellibrand river (miles away from their new dam) and pump water into Dewings Creek. This fabulously expensive plan would also piss everyone who use the Gellibrand right off. Like Colac.

Katos and the other dam nuts won't provide any details in regards to location, costs, who pays for the dam, and who misses out on the water. That would open them up to justifiable ridicule so the tactics will remain the same. ie "Waahhhhhh, waaaaahhh, we need a new dam, waaaaaaaahhhh, Labor, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I have a plan, bye".

And I thought the ALP's water plan of desalinating water in Wonthaggi, piping it to Melbourne, sending it down to Geelong, using it in crappers once, and then flushing it back into Bass Strait was about as stupid as it gets.

I was wrong. Whenever the ALP fucks up royally and the Libs look like making some mileage, the conservatives open their mouths and it all crumbles faster than Nanna's crumble pie.

Means testing

Club Wah has an absolutely ripping post about Doc Nelson's means test position.

"And why is it the Liberals never complained or stopped means testing for the following worthy causes?

ABSTUDY - Actually we can guess why
Age Pension - you value all babies but not pensioners
Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme - don’t you value kids who live out bush?
Austudy - see above, cunt
Bereavement Allowance - shame on you
Carer Payments - gee, with the song and dance you made about carers I actually thought you gave a fuck. Why is this means tested when it saves the government so much money?
Disability Support Payment - do you only care for healthy babies?
Family Tax Benefit A & B
Mature age allowance
Newstart Allowance
Parenting Payment - why have a baby bonus when we have this?
Partner Allowance
Pension Bonus Bereavement Payment
Pension Bonus Scheme
Sickness Allowance
Special Benefit
Widow Allowance - widows!
Widow B Pension
Wife Pension
Youth Allowance"

Those vile arse wipes in the Liberal Party means tested geniune welfare payments, and the income levels were set very low indeed. People who really needed welfare because they wanted to study, had sick kids, had dead partners, or were underfunded carers, got royally screwed by the previous government, AND YET NELSON GETS ALL FUCKING WHINGEY BECAUSE RIDICULOUS PAYMENTS WILL BE DENIED TO VERY RICH PEOPLE WHEN THEY BRING ANOTHER CHILD INTO A HOPELESSLY OVERPOPULATED PLANET.

The takeover of the Liberal Party by utterly talentless wealthy fuckers who don't give a toss about anyone but themselves is all but complete.

Their only real skill is Chair Sniffing and shooting themselves in the foot.

Setting up the chair sniffer

I'm not sure whether it is the Victorian Libs or the WA conservatives who are further up shit creek, but one thing is for sure, Troy "Yes I do sniff chairs" Buswell can't last long.
The latest talk about alleged inapropriate behaviour with small marsupials has turned Buswell's leadership into a running gag.

This story is either the greatest beat up ever or one of the greatest set ups of all times.

Ol' Chair Sniffer has denied any quokka-related shenanigans.

This means two things.
1. A gotcha moment is about to happen with devastating quokka photos and/or marsupial-related testimony becoming public. And that means game over for Buswell immediately.

2. The Libs realise that Buswell is unelectable because he simply can't outline a policy framework with all the rumours floating around, and they get rid of the liability within 6 months.

"Revenge of the Quokka" or "A Chair Too Far"? I guess we will know in a few days time.

Who's hungry?

The Libs are eating their own again.

Ummmmmm

Delicious

UPDATE.

Just got word about my favourite indoor soccer team (Groupthink FC) getting flogged again.

They have just been demoted multiple division and still can't win, BUT, I think I've found a fair game.

Groupthink FC vs The Victorian Liberal Party.

The first team can't win and latter keep kicking own goals.

Anyone want to predict the result ?

Keep going please.

After a certain Liberal councillor tried to censor this particular blog, I get great pleasure out of the fact that at a state level home grown Liberal blogs are doing so much more damage to the conservatives than BLL ever could.

As desperation sets in, the Liberal Party are eating their own across the country. Except of course in WA.

God bless the little poppets: seat sniffing is OK, but treason against a leader is a sackable offence.

And the funny thing is, it's the old hard right (the side of politics Australians have so obviously rejected) that is doing all the damge to what remains of moderates in the Liberal Party.

Incompetent ALP ministers across the country must be pissing themselves with joy, and the scumbag branch stackers whose only talent is white-anting Labor people who actually do the work will be getting excited about a future free run into parliament.

We've won, now for the victory tour

Back in November 2007 The Hun's resident wacky uber-conservative columnist, Andrew Bolt, announced that the war in Iraq had been won

The victory celebrations were a bit premature because in late January the war hadn't actually been won, it was only "going well".

But today we have truly great news folks.
Bolta has declared victory in Iraq again.

It's time for a party. Open your wallets people. I'm taking up a collection so we can send the war's most staunch backer to join in the celebrations.

I have big plans to help Andrew celebrate the glorious triumph of good versus evil in Iraq. And it won't cost much.

All I need is enough cash to buy Andrew an air ticket to Baghdad, and a little bit of spending money for the Bolta. He'll need a few bucks for taxi fare to Sadr City. After that it's all free. He just has to walk down the main street getting showered in flowers and kisses by the grateful Iraqi people.

Please make your pledges in the comments section. Andrew deserves it.

UPDATE

Here is a classic bit of Blot

"Here’s a hint that Melbourne really is more high-minded than Sydney. First let’s compare today’s “most popular” stories of News Ltd’s Sydney and Melbourne papers:

Sydney’s Daily Telegraph
Nude picture of Sydney school…
Nude sex secrets miss ‘would do…
Nude teacher’s husband speaks out
Parents fight for nude teacher
Spiritual healing helps shot…

Melbourne’s Herald Sun:
Shame over foreign students
Underbelly Uncut sells out
Corby women at war
Punter sings to new tune
Dad cleared of baby killing

Now let’s compare today’s “most popular” stories of Fairfax’s Sydney and Melbourne papers:


Sydney’s Sydney Morning Herald:
See ya, Tom: Packer quits Cruise’s church
Hopes for dream ticket as Obama praises Clinton
Medicare relief for millions
Packer babe is a frequent flyer
I’d do it again: nude teacher

Melbourne’s The Age:
Club director Alberti sues Nine Network
Single and sick of paying for it
Medicare relief for one million
Obama in exultant return to Congress
Price battlers forced back to the simpler life"

9 OUT OF THE TEN "MOST POPULAR" STORIES IN THE TABLOIDS ARE PATHETIC FLUFF PIECES, WHILE 7 OUT OF THE 10 "MOST POPULAR" STORIES IN THE FAIRFAX PAPERS HAVE ONGOING CONSEQUENCES,

AND IF THAT DOESN'T PROVE THAT NEWS LIMITED TABLOID READERS ARE UNBELIEVABLY "LOW MINDED" COMPARED TO FAIRFAX READERS, THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT DOES.

Now this is a poll.

When 20 cyclists were injured in a single road rage incident you would hope the media and politicians would handle the situation in a sensible manner.

But that would only lead to unfulfilled expectations.

Yahoo (Do you have a problem with sharing the road with cyclists?) and The Daily Terror (Are cyclists a problem on Sydney roads?) and 2GB (Bicycles on our roads - A necessity or just plain annoying?) ran idiotic polls given the circumstances.

On the same day as the road rage incident in Sydney, a tosser in a white ute deliberately swerved into my bike lane screaming abuse. The fact that I had a 2 year old on the back didn't seem to concern this tool. Of course, this type of behaviour seems acceptable given the anti-bike attitudes in the tabloids.

Damn it, I not going to take it anymore, and in that spirit I've decided to launch my own poll.

As a regular cyclist do you
	Piss yourself laughing at petrol prices?
	think fat *unts in 4WDs drive big vehicles to compensate for inadequacies in the pants department?
	think drivers who are texting should have their licences disqualified?
	have sexy legs?
	think a carbon tax is great?
	think kids are way too fat and should be forced to ride to school?
	drink lattes?
	live in a place which isn't a suburban wasteland without any public transport?
	GET FED UP WITH KNUCKLE DRAGGING PRICKS IN SHITBOX CARS TRYING TO RUN YOU OFF THE ROAD?
	or ALL OF THE ABOVE.
View Results

Free web poll from Free Website Polls

It's because they are white. Not.

Whenever a group of dark skinned young people commit a crime, it takes a nano second for talk back radio to scream "ETHNIC GANG".
The high-rating moral panic that follows sees listeners getting behind the moral barricades for a fight of good versus evil.
Theories about immigrants stuck between two cultures and "multiculturalism gone mad" abound, and deportation is proposed as a solution.

But what happens when it is a group of white guys doing the bashing and robbing?

Firstly Andrew Bolt goes M.I.A. Young white thugs don't rate like Sudanese crime, Middle Eastern gangs or Vietnamese gangs, and it would tend to upset his readers if he linked their ethnicity to criminal behaviour.

Yes there are ethnic gangs. We've got Lebanese gangs, vietnamese gangs, aboriginal gangs and anglo-saxon gangs, but the media are very quick to label Habib and his cousins walking to soccer practice a gang. Marauding groups of drunken teenagers aren't called "gangs", unless of course they have dark skin.

And here is the kicker that most people, especially those in the tabloid media, just don't get. Youth groups form around common localities, ethnicities, sporting clubs, and hobbies such as cars, rugby league and music. Some people in these social youth groups do commit crimes, but to lable a group a "criminal gang" because a few members steal, smoke drugs, or act in a drunk and disorderly manner is ridiculous.

The recent bashings in Northern Melbourne are conducted by a genuine criminal gang, and it doesn't take a genius to work out the common characteristics of people who commit these types of crime. The overwhelming majority of violent gang activity is committed by young males who are poorly educated, un (or under) employed, and probably have a substance abuse problem.

As young men become older, get jobs, find girlfriends, get married and have kids the chances of them participating in violent gang activity reduces dramatically.

In other words ethnicity is a very poor determinant of whether or not a person is involved in violent gang activity. But that doesn't stop those looking for cheap ratings.

UPDATE
Club Wah has spotted a really interesting difference in the reporting of these assault between the Hun and the Age.

Local Issues

OK Surf Coast Kiddies,
This blog is changing directions.
Every week I will open up a forum on a local issue for adults to discuss in a sensible manner. I will change the comments thread allowing unmoderated comments. Any abuse, defamation, or childish name calling will result in a blocking.
Knock yourselves out on the issue of bottles on the beach.

And my two cents.
Having done about 4 clean up days every year for the last 10 years, I can safely say that 99% of bottles on the beach contained alcoholic beverages.
We don't need a new law that will be as infective as other banning laws, we just need policing of the existing public drinking laws. If the problem continues, by all means bring in a new law that allows cops to double fine people.

I can't believe they're doing that.

Sometimes our state politicians become so insulated from the great unwashed they make terrible terrible decision.

And we've got two absolute howlers in the news at the moment.

WTF is Morris Iemma thinking going ahead with privatising the state's electricity against the wishes of his party and the people on NSW.

What is the point of having a conference when a small band of people drunk with power just ignore it? And who the hell is going to hand out HTV cards for Iemma at the next election?

But this stupidity pales into insignificance compared to the WA Libs' decision to back Troy "sniff those seats" Buswell.

I can just see the WA women lining up to vote for anyone who isn't a sexist pig.

Comedians will have a field day with this one. I hope two wags actually change their names to I. Sniff Seats and B.R.A Snapper and then stand against Buss Lightyear.

I'm tipping Mr Seat and Mr Snapper would stand a better chance of winning on comedic value alone.

Stupidity always comes in threes. What next? Tim Holding getting a promotion?

The Doc, AJ and Fitsmeister

"Is that Brendan Nelson?"




"Yo sister, the Doc is in"




"This is Ms Fits"




"My Primary school teacher?"




"No, I work for the ABC"



"Pre school company?"




"No, JJJ"




"Huh?"




"It's a radio station."




"You must know AJ?"




"Who"




"Al-jo"




"Who?"




"Jonesy, The big man who's got my back"




"Yeah I'd be careful about that"




"Why, he's totally straight?"




"riiiiiight. Listen Mr Nelson"




"Call me Doc-man."




"Doc-man?"




"Yo Fitster, Doc-man"


"OK Mr Nelson, I want to talk to you about gay marraige"




"Disgusting, isn't it. Hang on I've got another call"




"Hey Doc-Man, AJ here"




"The J man, how's it hangin."




"I'm the big nob and don't you forget it"




"Nevaaaaaaaaaa forget it in a gazillion years. Hey Jonesy, got this chick on the other line who hates gays"




"Filthy pigs, let's conference her."



"Hey Fitsy, your in, AJ's on the line and he's on about gay marriage"



"Uuuurrr, It's wrong, next thing, people will want to marry dogs and cats"




"But Alan..."




"Discipline, uuuuurrrr. That's what people need"




"But Alan. What about you know?"




"I know, if you let these sickos get married they will rape your children next"




"He's right Ms F"



"Look I rang to offer you some advice"




"Thanks Fitster, we've taken it on board. No rings for poofters"




*snickers* "rings for poofters. Good one Doc-man"




" A fuckit, keep up the good work guys"
*hangs up*

Solving youth crime in 25 words or less.

Club Wah wrote a great post the other day about idiot punters on the Herald Sun forums. In fact I was so impressed I decided to examine who's to blame, and how to solve the complex problem of antisocial youths on this forum.

Who's to blame 1.

ashamed of wagg wagga says blame "lands right on the shoulders of our weak kneed politicians state and federal. we(sic) saw this comming (sic) 10yrs ago when laws were passed taking contrl (sic) from good teachers and parants (sic)..."

Solution 1. repeal the "laws holding parants (sic) respponsible (sic) if they hit their children.

Yes a good beating will fix the kids.

Who's to blame 2.

Too many do gooder, left wing, lunatics are running the show... (and) letting them get away with murder.

Solution 2.
If they have to live under state care locked up at night then so be it.

Who's to blame 3.
marty of mornington blames multiculturalism.

Solution 3.
Marty doesn't give his final solution to the problem.

Who's to blame 4
weak gutless Politian?s (sic)

Solution 4
I would bring back hanging and there is a good example why as only the other day a young woman was shot dead by a f*#%@*g coward that was let out of jail after serving 15 years for murdering a 17 year old young girl. What more can be said.

Who's to blame 5
Well well well. As you reap so shall you sow. Many years ago when Mr Whitlam came in children were given money from Centrelink which they utilised to leave perfectly good homes and live in the streets.

Solution 5
Solution = Mandatory service in the defence force cadits (sic) for 1 year at the age of 16. Taken our (sic) of school for that year, and then go back and due (sic) VCE/HSC. Means that kids will be in school until they are 18/19 instead of 17/18, giving them a chance to be more mature when they have to decide their career paths.

Ooh for fucks sake. If we want to stop youths acting in an anti-social way, we just have to stop illiterate, angry, herald Sun reading, racist child bashers from breeding. If you can't spell "parent" you shouldn't be allowed to become one.

And one more thing.
This blog no longer accepts anonymous comments due to the ridiculous behaviour of the troll who calls himself Dave/Elmer/David/ttfn/Paul/etc.

The youth of today and ugly capitalism

Most people understand the concept of supply and demand. Some people even understand the concept of elasticity of demand. Those who studied economics should know that a giffen good is a product that has a positive relationship between price and quantity demanded.
The classic example of a giffen good is an inferior quality staple food, whose demand is driven by poverty. eg When the price of rice rises in poor parts of Asia, those living hand to mouth actually have to buy more rice (and less superior food) for sustenance.
At the other end of the economic ladder, people would gladly purchase more of a Veblen product when the price goes up. In what can only be described as totally irrational, yuppies will pay a snob premium if it means they can ponce around flaunting their wealth. Women will look at a $2 moisturiser one week and think it's crap because of the price. The next week the store manager doubles the prices and it walks out the door.

But this entry isn't just an economics lesson. It's about the ugly side of capitalism and the youth of today.

Last weekend a teenager with an awsome grasp of the concept of elasticity of demand flogged off a single dinger to his desperate mate for a whopping $6.

Whatever happened to helping out a mate?

The dinger seller has looked into his mate's desperate eyes and said "gotcha". 1200 per cent mark up.

The dinger seller did have somewhat of a conscience. He could have demanded the contents of his mate's wallet and a $20 IOU and still made the sale.