I knew Irony was lost on Americans

Watching TV the other day i realized that underneath the public persona of a talking baboon George Bush is really a very intellegent person.

why? you ask. Well we all know from his public speeches that big W appears a bit short of that important matter which resides between your ears. But the catch is that is just a ruse. Catch him off guard and he is really a quite intellegent person giving insightful analysis in the current situation in the Middle East.

See whilst you may think that a sensible analysis would look at the effects of Isreals occupation of Palestine, the denial of political rights to Muslims, the brutal treatment of Arabs in Palestine and previously and recently in Lebanon, as part of the reason why most other people in the region despise the Zionist state and the US for providing the military and economic assistance that allows it to laud over the region. Thus, why most people support the resistance movement who are fighting back with such disparate means ranging from children throwing stones who a few thousand small calibre rockets.

But no. Big W knows that this is wrong all you need to do which is 'ironic' is to get Syria to make Hezbollah stop this shit and it would be all over. No need to worry about who is responsible for rebuilding Lebanons infrastructure, no need to worry about the millions of Palestinians who have been kicked of their land, no need to worry about the thousands of Palestinians and other Arabs locked up without charge in Isreali jails.

See he really is is intellegent. Now that is ironic, or is it?

The Australian Editorial watch

It struck me reading the comment section of yesterdays "Australian" that if you look closely at any conservative comment especially if it is aimed at so called "lefties" it becomes apparent at how blatent thier hypocracy actually is and is just a smokescreen to justify a world view which places profit as the supreme god especially if it comes in the traditional form of share dividends or bank interest (don't mention decent wages or good working conditions).

The example i am refering to is the commment by that arch free marketeer David Flint about the attempt (which failed!) by a ABC journalist to get the ABC to publish an biography of the right wing pin up Alan Jones published.

Flint shares with us an intersting anecdote about how he couldn't find a copy of his book criticising the "liberal elites" (read small l liberal) for being out of touch with the Australian "mainstream" in any ABC bookshop. He was told by the attendent that they didn't stock that book because only books from the left sell. Now what would you think would be the reaction of this arch free marketeer who in the same article expressed his disagreement over what he termed Jones's agrarian socialism?

You would think that he would welcome and champion ABC shops market driven approach as a step forward away from the "economically inefficiencies" of state run organisations. Surely ABC Shops are just supplying what the consumers demand surely this is the best way to meet equilibrium. Surely he isn't argueing that ABC shops interfere with the free market and provide books by conservatives that they know doesn't have market demand.

But he does. This champion of the free market inadvertantly showed his ideological hypocracies to the world. We can have free market in everything from education to health and that we should remove all impediments to free trade, but we can't allow the free market to determine that 'leftie' speak dominates the bookshelves of ABC stores.

What a world

Hi everyone

This is imatrot signing on with my first post to my new blog "Big red house".

Big red house will aim to provide people (and hopefully myself) with some sort of understanding of the of the world, space and the universe (because you have to aim big) but will probably degenerate into semi incoherant innane ramblings.

But hey! hopefully we can have some fun along the way.