"Conservative" Dirty Harry reviews Wall-E

I loved the movie Wall-E.  It was visually impressive, beautiful.  It was a simple movie, with a good message, devoid of tackyness, cheap parodies and pop culture references which plague a lot of animated 'family' movies.  The message was a timely one too.  Don't consume yourself into oblivion.  Don't rely on corporations/government (in Wall-E there is no distinction) to do everything for you.  Be independant, look after yourself and the planet.

One would think that 'conservatives', who have often lauded Pixar as "one of their own" would take to this movie.  But instead, it was utterly ravaged.

"Conservative" Dirty Harry review the movie here.

Guess what his prime gripe is?  It's a line uttered in the movie, when the CEO of Buy'n'Save, the ubiquitous corporation which seems to have a monopoly over the planet, says "stay the course".  It's a jab at Dubya, get it?  It's that significant, that I missed it the first time.  But it prompted this "conservative" to write this review.

Have a read and enjoy the antics of the 'Ra Ra Fox news 4eva' numbskulls.

Australia Full?

I'm not racist, says 'f*** off' teen

Here's whats interesting.  The roads become car parks necessitating added lanes squeezed on existing freeways and new freeways built.  The public transport system is in chaos due to unprecedented population growth.  Sometimes you literally can not fit onto the train.  Suburban sprawl continues unabated and the countries population is increasing at record levels, largely due to immigration policy which saw the number of people enter the country each year rise to above 150,000 annually.  Then you have the water shortages, the high cost and high competition for housing.

Keep in mind, that the media report on these issues on an almost daily basis.

Now why, oh why, would some teenagers get the idea that their part of the world is full?  Yet for pointing this out, they are 'racist'?

There isn't any legitimate means to have these policies responsible fot this growth honestly debated and questioned.  So the only real recourse, is to say F$%K off.

Yes, it's coarse, boarish and perhaps ineffective.  But look what happened to the last politician to raise concerns about immigration!

The problem squarely lies with government policy.  It is not the responsibility of potential immigrants to hold off their arrival to Australia, nor should they.

Australia's government should be looking after the interests of Australians.  Novel concept indeed.

Importing tension: Andrew Bolt's Blog

Conservative windbag Andrew Bolt, the resident "conservative" columnist and blogger for the contemptible Victorian newspaper, The Herald Sun brings up this snippet.

The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index report, compiled by Bob Cummins, professor of psychology at Deakin University, shows ... the combination of high density living, high numbers of young people, and high rates of immigrants in a community can be a recipe for disaffection. “When people don’t know the people living around them, it gives rise to bad thoughts,” Professor Cummins said. “They don’t feel as safe...” 

The survey also shows lower rates of wellbeing in communities where more than 40 per cent of residents were born overseas. This finding was likely to reflect the anxiety about “strangers” felt by the Australian-born in the area who were more likely to be interviewed for the survey, Professor Cummins said, rather than the feelings of the immigrants.

This is all well and good.  A disjointed, diverse community from a range of alien backgrounds would not prove the same cohesiveness, and sense of belonging that a more homogenous community would.

Of course, to question multiculturalism is akin to heresy these days.  One mustn't utter a dispariging word, or voice concern about rapidly changing suburbs.  If you feel even a little alienated by being surrounded by people who don't share your culture, or understand cultural terms, or are unable to empathise with your past experiences because their background was so different, then apparantely it is YOU who is the bigot.

The problem is, that if you critique multiculturalism, then people will accuse you of being anti-immigrant and of being racist.  But what is multiculturalism except the belief that a) White/Western socities are somehow 'deficient' and b) that these socities must forgo their cultural/ethnic composition for some arbitrary ideal which is held by Politically Correct types.

The only thing that Andrew Bolt seems to be capable of doing is bringing up these issues, but should anyone actually do more than talk about it, he will predictably attack them.

Assembly Line Human doesn't believe in 'isms'.  'Isms' are for people who can't think and need to buy prepackaged ideologies as if they were ready made hampers at the supermarket.

Filthy sums up the academy awards perfectly

I couldn't put it better myself.  The "Filthy Critic" writes on the self congratulatory jerk circle that is the Academy Awards.

http://www.bigempire.com/filthy/fucktheacademy.html

There's rude words.

Introduction

If you think you're educated because of the education you have been given.  This blog is not for you.

If you think you're educated because of the education you have given yourself, welcome to my blog.

This is neither a 'left wing' or a 'right wing' blog.  I don't pander to liberals and join their chorus line, and I couldn't care about conservatives.

There are too many blogs out there for opinionated idiots with their 'me too' blog.  A hundred blogs of people tut-tutting 'racist'.  Hundreds of conservatives doing what conservatives do, predictably and reliably.  Why someone would create a blog, only to agree 100% with a bunch of others who all are in lockstep is beyond me.

I endeavour to give you something NEW, original and entertaining.  If what I had to say was predictable, from a specifically defined field of politics, I wouldn't bother insulting the readers intelligence by writing the exact same things that windbags like Michael Moore or Andrew Bolt write, and passing it of as my 'own'.