Front page....Haiti- The gist of the article is 1.Thank God Obama is in office 2. ignore the fact that workers can't really get as many supplies in because no one in leadership allows the police/military to shoot looters on sight 3. Sure hope someone can find a way to rebuild Haiti...oh well, Obama will just talk to them and lollipops and powerbars will rain from the sky.
The most fun section in the paper hands down is the Opinion section...a real window into the Aussie soul. Today did not dissappoint.
#1:FOX ADDS A BRUNNETTE TO BLONDE WEAPONRY AGAINST THE PRESIDENT
(I know...I'm in Oz, but this is the headline for the lead editorial.....)
Paul Sheehan's power-house editorial explains how 35 of the 53 women @ Fox News (he knows...he counted) are blondes. With their "chiseled chin-lines, big hair and radioactive lipgloss", he dubs them "Foxy News". (He is so clever.) Now the foxiest, big haired, and lipglossiest woman, Sarah Palin, is part of their beauty stable. He then goes on to explain how Fox does everything in its power to ensure that Obama's poll numbers continue to go from "euphoric to skeptical". If you read far enough, however, even Mr. Snarky stumbles on the truth....
"Every day, in every way, before an ever-growing audience, Fox News beats the drum of 'socialism'. It is portraying Obama as a two-faced ideologue who is doing dirty deals to get his sweeping left-wing, big government agenda through Congress, bankrupting the nation in the process.
I laughed out loud in the waiting room at that paragraph. So...in other words....Fox News is reporting the truth??? I don't think the editors read that part too closely. I mean, come on... no matter what your party, the bribing of Mary Landrieu and Nebraska senator Ben Nelson has got to be classified as dirty deals.
#2 PRINCELY MAGNETISM COULD SWING VIEWS ON MONARCHY
Ross Cameron expounds on how great it is that Prince William is visiting NZ and Oz this week. Australia is part of a"reluctant limited monarchy". A referendum to cut ties with Britain and become a republic was defeated in six out of six states. Here, Cameron defends the decision....here's the kicker paragraph...get ready....
"The most politically stable and free nations are limited monarchies-Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and The Netherlands among others. Japan has enjoyed its best 63 years since installing a limited monarchy. In the Middle East, Jordon and Morocco stand out among their historically strife-torn neighbours."
By now, my sides are aching from laughing....can this guy be serious? I mean, I'm glad he can alphabetize but really???Here is what is going through my mind....
OK...Australia, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Holland----all socialist countries with heavy government involvement/ownership of banks, airlines, car companies, healthcare, insurance, urban central-planning (ie: telling people where they can and can't live) with some of the above complicit in keeping addicts addicted. Japan prospered once they stopped invading other countries in Asia and the USA moved in to be their defacto military. Jordan and Morocco...let's just say that I don't want to be arrested and thrown into one of their prisons.
Now, I am not saying these countries aren't wonderful places, but to call them the most free places on earth....that I cannot swallow.
Saving the best for last....
#3 SCRAPPING THE M4 TOLL WILL MAKE ROADS WORSE
Poor Patricia Forsythe.... she is furious that the M4 motorway will be handed back to the State Government. It promised to "scrap the $2.75 toll and provide commuters with a toll-free motorway that stretches from Strathfield to the Blue Mountains." "Why is the Government embracing a policy that will encourage more motorists to use the M4?" Ms. Forsythe wonders aloud. Ok. I will proceed slowlythrough her problem with this lifting of the toll.
#1 It may be beneficial to residents and business operators in Sydney's west, but "the cost of congestion, or wear and tear on their cars and the stress and more time spent away from families will outweigh that saved money." (What about the other motorways of Sydney? Won't there be less congestion on them and they can have less stress, wear and tear and time with family because they can get home faster?)
#2 "Tolling roads is no longer merely a method of funding infrastructure....It is now also about sending behavioural signals to commuters about how we want them to commute around our city." (So....vee vill tell you how to live.....vor your own goot!)
#3 "The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) still worship at the altar of the automobile and cling to the discredited belief that the cheapest and most efficient means of public transport is the motor car." (Of course, there are very few lines that travel far enough out to West Sydney... but I'm sure they will be building some cheaply and efficiently...soon...someday....some year....some millienia. How dare people live that far away anyway!)
So you can see...don't let people keep their own money, government---go back on your promises, don't be fiscally responsible and build more roads...just make people live closer to the existing rail lines.
This is an example why, after two weeks of subscribing to the Sydney Morning Herald, I cancelled. Lining the litterbox is too good for this rubbish. The good news: My airbag indicator light was just a loose connection....and under warranty! Some things in Sydney are without a fee!!!
Stick to the Wall Street Journal editorial page...unless you want a good laugh!
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