The Great Leader speaks (Mandarin) 29 Oct 2007 I actually don’t dislike the guy, but this is one of the funniest political ads I’ve ever seen. For forners (not from Orstraya), it helps to know that Rudd leads the erstwhile socialist party, speaks Mandarin, and is likely to win the next federal election. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptccZze7VxQ&rel=1] Humor Politics
Politics And atheists and agnostics? 4 Jun 2009 Obama has said, in his speech in Cairo: The Holy Koran tells us: “O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.” The Talmud tells us: “The whole of the Torah is for… Read More
Politics Equality is about protection, not love 20 Aug 201720 Aug 2017 Again and again I see the same-sex marriage (SSM) debate cast in terms of love. And while I agree that people should be free to love those they wish (if it is mutual, and freely given, and no minors are involved), that is not what the SSM debate is really… Read More
Politics Religion and politics across the pond 26 Jun 20084 Oct 2017 On the one hand we have James Dobson declaring that Barack Obama isn’t really Christian, because he distorts the Bible. Funny, I thought the Bible had some things to say about that [Matt 5:22, 7:1, Luke 6:37, Rom 2:1, 14:4, James 4:11, but then I’m not a Christian so I… Read More
Can we hope for (cringe in terror of) a Cultural Revolution? I think there’s a Five Year Plan for one, yes.
Rudd is the Australian equivalent of New Labour. He speaks fluent Mandarin, and when APEC was held here a few months back he addressed the Chinese delegation in their own language. This led to the video, as you see. We are hip deep in errr… electioneering (yes, that’s it, electioneering. Not shit, no.) right now, and the election date is 24th November. Three weeks into it and we are all sick of it. So it’s nice to see some satire. I want the parliament to be divided almost evenly between the Greens and the Democrats (not much like yours), with the Liberals who are illiberal, Labor who are mostly pro-union and both are pro-big industry, failing to get any seats at all. Oh, and every child gets a candy bar and a big soft toy…
I actually don’t care much for Rudd. I’ll support a Labor government because it will be infinitely better than the current Howard government. What would have been awesome (in the reality that the Greens are not going to get an lower house seats) would have been a Julia Gillard lead Labor government. I’m still hoping we’ll get one in a few elections time.