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Run him out of town

by Whaleoil September 7, 2010

This man is a dis­grace. He should be tar and feath­ered and made to live…well….anywhere but near real sol­diers. Gor­don Tis­dell is a bro­ken man. For a decade he has been the pub­lic face of Anzac and Remem­brance Days. His pho­to­graph has run in Life mag­a­zine; in the Aus­tralian, where he claimed to be a Viet­nam veteran; […]

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Proof positive that Silly First Name Syndrome kills

by Whaleoil September 4, 2010

Surely this is enough evi­dence to end the silly first name syn­drome dis­cus­sion. A month ago, six African-American teenagers drowned in a sin­gle inci­dent in Louisiana, prompt­ing soul-searching about why so many young black Amer­i­cans can’t swim. When 15-year-old DeK­endrix Warner acci­den­tally stepped into deeper water while wad­ing in the Red River in Shreve­port, he panicked. […]

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This global warming thing is a real bastard

by Whaleoil September 2, 2010

Looks like this Global Warm­ing thingy is real hard to pin down. Heavy rain across much of the coun­try and thick cloud in the south east made for a dis­ap­point­ing end to the sum­mer hol­i­day. The month also saw the cold­est tem­per­a­ture recorded in August for 23 years, with mer­cury falling to 12.8C in Edg­bas­ton, Birmingham. […]

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Can you beat 30 seconds?

by Whaleoil September 1, 2010

There is a 100% chance you will have a tear in your eye within 30 sec­onds of this video. If you make it to the end with­out a tear you are a cold heart­less bas­tard. Sol­diers return­ing from war sur­prise kids, loved ones. NSFW b/c you will bawl your eyes out (video) The Song is called: […]

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Everyone is after The Whale

by Whaleoil August 26, 2010

Even Vladimir Putin Related Posts:No Related Posts

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It is and you are

by Whaleoil August 24, 2010

A Senior Labor MP speaks the truth. Other rea­sons were also cited. One senior MP said the del­uge of votes away from Labor to the Greens reflected a lack of for­ti­tude on pol­icy, espe­cially cli­mate change. He said Ms Gillard has proved to be just as weak and focus-poll dri­ven as Kevin Rudd on the subject, […]

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Respecting Ramadan in Gaza

by Whaleoil August 18, 2010

So this is how Hamas and mil­i­tant ter­ror organ­i­sa­tions respect Ramadan. Two IDF Sol­diers Lightly Injured in Rocket Attack, 17 Aug. 2010 Two IDF sol­diers were lightly injured from mor­tar shells fired by Pales­tin­ian mil­i­tants from the Gaza Strip this morn­ing, land­ing in the Eshkol Regional Coun­cil. The two were evac­u­ated to a hos­pi­tal for medical […]

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Do you really know Julia Gillard?

by Whaleoil August 18, 2010

Attack ads are bril­liant. In Aus­tralia and in the US these ads are used exten­sively, and they are the most hon­est. If you are going to attack some­one you have to get stuff right. This ad from the Lib­er­als in Aus­tralia is superb. And Angry Ander­son isn’t too enam­ored with Labor either. Related Posts:Schools to have […]

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When you don’t chuck bombs the walls come down

by Whaleoil August 16, 2010

Well now, here is a les­son for the haters of Hamas. Yes­ter­day, August 15th, the Israeli Police began their work of dis­man­tling the pro­tec­tive con­crete struc­ture that was built eight years ago to pro­tect Gilo res­i­dents from gun­fire and shells fired from the neigh­bor­ing town of Beit Jala. The deci­sion to dis­man­tle the wall was […]

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Greens plan for Afghan Security — Catch and Release

by Whaleoil August 15, 2010

The Greens are nut­ters and none more-so that Pol Pot fan Keith Locke. The Green Party has renewed calls to with­draw New Zealand’s elite troops from Afghanistan fol­low­ing reports they are involved in cap­tur­ing pris­on­ers who are then handed over to regimes which could tor­ture them. Defence Min­is­ter Wayne Mapp yes­ter­day said the Spe­cial Air Ser­vice (SAS) […]

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Unspinning the Kia Ora Gaza liars

by Whaleoil August 15, 2010

I was on the Nation today and due to time con­straints I didn’t get to slam into the liars of Kia Ora Gaza. Sean Plun­ket how­ever did a fair job of try­ing to expose their lies. Here is the tran­script: SEAN In the past week you’ve been asked to give again to a group called Kia […]

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Awesome Attack Ad

by Whaleoil August 13, 2010

If only National did one of these for Labour here. Not to dis­sim­i­lar the sit­u­a­tion faced by National after tak­ing over from the wastre­als of the Clark gov­ern­ment. Related Posts:How will this help Three Hats fundrais­ing for Labour?Labour cock-ups this weekIs Plug­head going independent?Turn­ing a Chicken Run into a vic­tory in 2011If you have to defend it, […]

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Open Season

by Whaleoil August 10, 2010

via email. The UK is about to set bounty hunters onto state ben­e­fi­cia­ries. Finance experts will iden­tify wel­fare cheats by trawl­ing through their records, house­hold bills and credit card appli­ca­tions. Full credit checks will be car­ried out on all new ben­e­fits appli­cants as well as on exist­ing claimants who are sus­pected of fraud. The agen­cies will […]

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The Blackberry Burqa

by Whaleoil August 9, 2010

The UAE doesn’t need to ban Black­berry phones, they just need to make users of the phones use them with a Black­berry Burqa. New laws in Saudi Ara­bia and the United Arab Emi­rates will require that every Black­berry user dress their phone a minia­ture burqa and face veil. ‘The Black­berry burqa means that peo­ple can still […]

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Gillard does a Taylor and Old School Repeaters get upset

by Whaleoil August 9, 2010

Julia Gillard has done a Kevin Tay­lor and med­dled in the employ­ment affairs of a polit­i­cal enemy. Mark Latham took the fight to the street and ambushed the unc­tu­ous Gillard about her com­plaint to nine about employ­ing Latham. Mr Latham ambushed Ms Gillard with­out warn­ing, ask­ing her if she knew any­thing about a com­plaint that […]

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