Saturday Sanity Check
My weekend reminder that you're not crazy, they are!!!
The high profile restaurant owner arrested for carrying a Nazi sign at a Pro-Palestinian march has made a grovelling apology.
Funny how mass cancellations at your expensive restaurants brings a change of heart.
Al Yazbek, who owns Nomad in Sydney and in Melbourne, released a statement saying …
“I apologise unequivocally for my actions at the demonstration on Sunday where I carried a sign that is deeply offensive to the Jewish community.”
Okay. Fair start. He continued …
“You can be sure that [I] will do all I can to regain the trust of my wonderful staff, our loyal customers, and the broader community.
How? By not brandishing Nazi signs?
And then he wrote this …
“Friends and acquaintances who know me – both Jewish and gentile – know that I am not an anti-Semite, and they also know how passionate I am about supporting diversity and equality in both my personal life and within the NOMAD Group of businesses.
It begs the question, how does someone who is known not to be an anti-Semite come to be waving around a Nazi sign at an anti-Israel rally? Hmmmm.
And I love the way he manages to mention he’s a great supporter of “diversity and equality”. You have to love those mystical words that the Left believe have magical powers to wash away sin.
He should have stopped there. But he couldn’t help himself …
“Like a great many, I am traumatised daily by the ongoing bloodshed in the Middle East – within Israel, in Palestine and now in Lebanon. We must make it stop.
Somehow his unequivocal apology turns into justification (‘I only carried the Nazi sign because I was traumatised), and false equivalence (comparing terror attacks in Israel with targeted military strikes in “Palestine and Lebanon”)
Whatever.
Won’t be eating there again.
Queensland Premier Steven Miles has forgotten yet another candidate’s name.
Last week, Giggles forgot the name of Mirani Labor candidate Susan Teder, despite visiting the central Queensland electorate twice in two days.
And this week he forgot the name of Kawana candidate Jim Dawson.
“That’s a good question,” Miles said with a big grin when asked the name of the person he was campaigning on the Sunshine Coast for.
“I’ll be campaigning in Sunshine Coast all day, so stay tuned.”
What a fool.
Anyway, Miles won’t need to remember anyone’s name two weeks from now.
But even worse than forgetting a candidate’s name is forgetting the country you’re supposed to be serving - that one is on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
Speaking of Foreign Minister Penny Wong, she says Liberal leader Peter Dutton is “out of step with the majority of the international community” when it comes to Israel and the Middle East.
Is she serious?
Who cares if our view of the Middle East conflict is “out of step” with the rest of the world? If the rest of the world is wrong, then it is to our credit to be out of step.
And since when was morality and principle decided by a vote? If the majority are wrong, they are still wrong. And if you’re right, you’re right - even as a minority.
As for the “international community”, what does that even mean? There is no international community. It’s a fiction.
God help us when such light-weights are determining our foreign policy.
If you’re wondering where it all went wrong for Anthony Albanese, here’s my two cents …
Albanese came to power promising to change the Constitution in order to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Had it gone to plan, he would have used that campaign as a blue print for one more Constitutional change - turning Australia into a republic.
Remember, he appointed a Minister for a Republic the moment he came into office.
But of course, when his Voice referendum was roundly rejected by a majority of Australians, his republican dreams also went up in smoke.
Now he was just an ordinary Prime Minister having to deal with actual problems rather than a history making PM who would be remember forever.
He has been moping around the country, clueless about what to do now, ever since.
Boy oh boy did Australia dodge a bullet when we voted ‘No’ at the Voice referendum.
Aboriginal activist Megan Davis, who helped design the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, says the referendum failed because Australia lacked laws to censor ‘misinformation’.
In other words, the Voice would have won if activists could have silenced any dissent.
She told The Australian …
“The Aboriginal committees did press upon Labor to pass legislation to protect the referendum from lies and misinformation.”
Wow!
Activists pressed the government to pass laws that would censor opposition to their plans.
She went on to say …
“It’s important to ask the question, and certainly in relation to referendums going forward, what role the law can play in terms of Australians being able to debate these issues fairly … we want freedom of speech, but we need to balance that with upholding principles of democracy and democratic rights.”
When you talk about the need for “balance” when it comes to free speech it shows you know nothing about free speech.
We wouldn’t need free speech if speech was “balanced”. The point of free speech is to protect the right to unbalanced speech, thank you very much Ms Davis.
And to suggest we need to limit freedom of speech to uphold principles of democracy is first rate comedy gold.
But the biggest joke is that people like Ms Davis imagine 60 percent of Australians voted ‘No’ because of misinformation.
For the love of God please … please stop telling me I voted ‘No’ because I was either ignorant, misinformed, or a wee bit stupid.
I voted ‘No’ because I disagreed with the proposal.
I also voted ‘No’ because it was very clear the idea was being promoted by an activist class who wanted power and - as we now learn - the ability to censor their fellow Australians.
Like I said … we dodged a bullet. And that’s not misinformation. That’s the facts.
And this is why I have, for 53 years, resisted the urge to breakdance ...
According to the BBC …
“Breakdancers have been urged to avoid headspinning after a dancer who developed a cone-shaped lump on his head due to ‘years of extensive headspinning practice’ had to have it surgically removed.”
The benign tumour, dubbed a “breakdance bulge”, was more than an inch thick.
Apparently we are not meant to spin around and around on our heads. So now you know.
An art exhibition in Los Angeles protesting Donald Trump spreading hate invites people to kick a soccer ball shaped like the former President’s head.
There’s no better way to oppose ‘hate’ than to make a facsimile of someone’s decapitated head and treat it with total disrespect.
Ironically, Trump is ahead. (I’ll be here all week)
Politico Magazine ran this picture (above) with the headline:
Walz to launch media blitz to woo male voters
I can’t wait to get wooed.
But will knucklehead Walz woo blokes with jazz hands?
I would have thought a man would be better to woo men.
But not all is lost. Here are two guys I reckon Walz could woo …
At the end of the day, most guys will vote for the man who got shot and responded by giving a fist pump.
If Walz truly wants to identity with American men, he should vote for Trump.
A non-binary associate professor of Women's Studies at Oregon State has stepped down after being accused of faking his mixed-race Black-Indigenous Two-Spirit identity.
Qwo-Li (Paul) Driskill claimed he was of African and Cherokee descent.
He also claimed he was a non-binary.
But he was forced to quit his teaching role after an investigation found no evidence of Driskill’s assertions of Cherokee, Lenape, Osage, and Lumbee heritage or African American ancestry.
I could have told them at a glance there was no evidence that Driscoll was anything but a man, and a white one at that.
Anyway, he’s still faking the non-binary part. But come on Oregon State, that was your first clue, and the easiest claim to prove false!!!
Hahahaha... don't ever change James! Say it like it is....And on behalf of many Australians I'm sure!!
After reading all that, I now have a cone shaped head from it spinning!