tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post8309354348253432655..comments2024-03-29T05:29:57.536-04:00Comments on The DiploMad 2.0: Hope from the Land of Tomorrow: Aussies Bring Back the Real LiberalsDiploMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-11858645565360592982013-09-21T03:17:50.684-04:002013-09-21T03:17:50.684-04:00He's also a volunteer firefighter and surf lif...He's also a volunteer firefighter and surf lifesaverAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-69981745802012525602013-09-14T14:08:32.304-04:002013-09-14T14:08:32.304-04:00A "Corpsman" is not a Marine, even thoug...A "Corpsman" is not a Marine, even though Marines are members of a Corps. <br /><br />A Corpsman is "Doc;" in the days of my Father's service, a Hospitalman or Pharmacist's Mate. And Navy Blue to the core. <br /><br />And receive, per capita, as many MOH and Navy Crosses as the Marines they serve with, Fox2!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14066854122631446752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-55680021095117622302013-09-13T13:17:13.621-04:002013-09-13T13:17:13.621-04:00I am a little late to the conversation but I had t...I am a little late to the conversation but I had to respond to Diplomad's comment about Australian's seeing the future before he did. An Australian friend has the following statement after the signature block on his e-mails:<br /><br />"Don't worry about the world ending today, its already tomorrow in <br />Australia" <br />Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09731386688101956263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-90742701633025903212013-09-13T00:54:02.220-04:002013-09-13T00:54:02.220-04:00Love that Kevin Kardashian. I am going to steal th...Love that Kevin Kardashian. I am going to steal that.DiploMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-613657001610462212013-09-13T00:53:09.545-04:002013-09-13T00:53:09.545-04:00I accept your verdict!I accept your verdict!DiploMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-81547563678257194652013-09-12T20:16:06.825-04:002013-09-12T20:16:06.825-04:00Update on Oz politics:
Given the vitriolic nature...Update on Oz politics:<br /><br />Given the vitriolic nature of the anti-Catholic bile directed at Prime Minister-elect Abbott by the Left in this country, it is interesting to note that the two Labor politicians vying for ALP leadership are both Catholics themselves. The leftist hypocrisy is deafening in its' silence, but that is normal. Popular Frontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-64736294135468835642013-09-12T04:11:26.246-04:002013-09-12T04:11:26.246-04:00You wrote "Rudd, and his even more bizarre i...You wrote "Rudd, and his even more bizarre intra-Labor rival, weird Welshwoman Julia Gillard," <br />Not a chance, mate. Ju-liar as she was known by millions down here was a disaster as PM (IMO she just wasn't up to the job). But in the Bizarro Sweepstakes, krudd won by a bloody mile. If they get up a Nobel Prize for Bizarre, kev will win it in perpetuity. Old Sailorman of Oznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-24243802454002629752013-09-11T19:56:32.345-04:002013-09-11T19:56:32.345-04:00Thanks to all the readers from Australia. One of m...Thanks to all the readers from Australia. One of my greatest frustrations in my FS career was never getting assigned to that great country. I tried and tried, but there was always somebody better connected who pushed me aside. The closest I got was Indonesia and Sri Lanka, where, however, I got to work daily with some truly outstanding Aussie diplomats and soldiers. I genuinely hope that the Spirit of Abbott will not confine itself to Australia but spread across the oceans to our shores. Men and women such as Abbott form the last hope for the West to recover from its current bout of the leftist virus. I just hope it's not too late. DiploMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-74266364346884304202013-09-11T19:48:40.403-04:002013-09-11T19:48:40.403-04:00Tony Abbott is a normal Aussie male. Active and in...Tony Abbott is a normal Aussie male. Active and involved in his community and country. He's educated and down to earth.<br /><br />Kevin Rudd, well it's said KRudd suffers from a condition called "Grandiose narcissism."<br /><br />Anyway we like to call him "Kevin Kardashian" due to his public persona.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-89113163851771008552013-09-11T08:02:12.231-04:002013-09-11T08:02:12.231-04:00Yup. Been a fan of the Diplomad for years. And he ...Yup. Been a fan of the Diplomad for years. And he and I may even have met fleetingly in Sumatra....<br /><br />Mk50 of BrisbaneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-41651815107231653932013-09-11T03:37:47.502-04:002013-09-11T03:37:47.502-04:00Another bonus we (I am Australian) are getting fro...Another bonus we (I am Australian) are getting from Abbott is that he is not pandering to the media and trying to slow the 24 hour news cycle of meaningless sound bites and 30 second blips of vision.<br /><br />"Calm, peaceful, steady and purposeful" are being suggested as his new code works.<br /><br />If he can achieve this then the media will have time to investigate and objectively report the news, instead of peddling the conventional wisdom pushed by un-elected and noisey left wing groups.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-26565031746467623892013-09-10T23:34:15.250-04:002013-09-10T23:34:15.250-04:00Tony Abbott also once saved a boy from drowning, a...Tony Abbott also once saved a boy from drowning, adding to his impressive life experiences and service.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-89060088010880944192013-09-10T23:07:34.269-04:002013-09-10T23:07:34.269-04:00Tony Abbott is a few other things. Firstly, he is ...Tony Abbott is a few other things. Firstly, he is a committed Catholic. He has to hide his faith as being purely a personal matter. The media and left in Australia just cannot handle the idea of a true committed Catholic being PM. They were more than happy to photograph Kevin Rudd outside his Anglican Church every Sunday - but oh be scared of that raving Catholic Abbott. <br /><br />The guy has a beautiful family, three adorable intelligent daughters and an equally loving and intelligent wife. Notice for years they would not get involved in Tony Abbott's political life.<br /><br />Then that old feminist warrior Julia Gillard (who had previously said that marriage was a form of formalised prostitution) and had a penchant for affairs with married men with children (Bruce Wilson and Craig Emerson) - was somehow a suitable authority to describe the family man Tony Abbott as a Misogynist (read man who hates all women). <br /><br />The media loved it. The left loved it. The YouTube clip went 'viral' - all for what? So a desperate lightweight PM could have five minutes in the spotlight by smearing her opponent.<br /><br />Well the reaction from Tony Abbotts family was as immediate as it was stark. Every day since then he has had at least one of his Daughters and Margie Abbott on the campaign with him. So they should. The loved their Dad and Husband and were not going to sit idly by while the EMILYs lister went Abbotts character and standing. They had had enough.<br /><br />Finally – on climate change, unlike other paragons of wisdom and virtue around the world, Abbott knows the whole thing is an absolute green racket of enormous proportions. He will scrap the crap the Labor party created (Carbon Tax @ AUD$24.15 per tonne anyone??) and then his ‘alternate’ direct action policy won't get through the parliament anyway. <br /><br />It’s a sad state of affairs that he has to propose to spend AUD$3.2B over four years to pander to the climate change gods that exist in our society (read green groups, renewable energy leeches and the whole Climate Change bureaucracy – over 2700 public servants in Canberra).<br /><br />The other thing he won't support is Gay Marriage, called Marriage Equality in Australia. Another sacred cow leftist media orthodoxy he does not subscribe to.<br /><br />Australia the people decided for a family man with values whom does not bow to the sacred issues of the left – those hot button things like being a strong Christian Catholic, not being a Climate Change warrior or a Pink Mafia member.<br /><br />God has blessed Australia with Tony Abbott. That is why the left and media are so incensed. <br /><br />Amen<br />kempmatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11214480974677398751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-15072705775741209642013-09-10T20:44:04.091-04:002013-09-10T20:44:04.091-04:00Absolutely love this blog. Am thrilled to have bee...Absolutely love this blog. Am thrilled to have been directed here. Will be coming back here often. I'm Australian, and I can't tell you how thrilled I am at our election result. Six years of deceit and incompetence from the Labor Party, and all we have to show for it is a massive debt. We actually went into the GFC with a surplus, with a strong economy. Labor have left us with a massive debt to repay. Absolutely morons, the lot of them. They earned and deserved the shellacking they got. algueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10560380902269175155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-55982540900474070122013-09-10T06:01:41.383-04:002013-09-10T06:01:41.383-04:00Tan me 'ide when I'm dead, Fred,
Tan me &#...Tan me 'ide when I'm dead, Fred,<br />Tan me 'ide when I'm dead.<br />So he tanned 'is 'ide when 'e died, Clyde,<br />That's it, hanging on the shed. Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-6512710264587706512013-09-10T03:41:12.838-04:002013-09-10T03:41:12.838-04:00Um, Delilah and most people on this site are obvio...Um, Delilah and most people on this site are obviously American and Americans spell it “labor”. So there is no point telling them the Labor Party are so stupid they spelled it wrong. They won’t get what you’re talking about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-65022324425934565362013-09-10T02:16:43.510-04:002013-09-10T02:16:43.510-04:00All kinds of people keep coming forward with stori...All kinds of people keep coming forward with stories about how Abbott helped them personally in times of distress and danger. He's like Mitt Romney in that respect. One account recently emerged about how he saved a boy from drowning at a beach - then gave the parent a curt lecture for not keeping a closer eye on their kid. Funny how you never hear any stories like that about Kevin Rudd or Barack Obama.cuckoonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-89968772754880355652013-09-10T01:24:42.273-04:002013-09-10T01:24:42.273-04:00Kerry obviously did not have his "lucky hat&q...Kerry obviously did not have his "lucky hat" with him that was given to him by "a CIA guy" on a "secret mission to Cambodia" during his grueling 3 mos on a boat in Vietnam for which he received three purple hearts - one for each month. The only one he deserved was the one that came as a result of shooting himself in the ass.jwllikershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16197221697379218088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-73174110231109583332013-09-10T00:41:12.897-04:002013-09-10T00:41:12.897-04:00Abbott is unavailable today because he is off figh...Abbott is unavailable today because he is off fighting a bushfire- he is a volunteer firie, as well as a surf lifesaver.<br /><br />His previous achievements include saving a woman and children from a burning house.<br /><br />To suggest he is anything other than a real life superhero, especially when compared to compulsive liar gillard and narcissistic failure krudd, is ludicrous. And typical of socialists everywhere.<br /><br />Our nightmare is over. But we must be eternally vigilant.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04355521785297533930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-65144715191747196472013-09-10T00:12:18.740-04:002013-09-10T00:12:18.740-04:00Hey hey Mk50, you're here too? Great site isn&...Hey hey Mk50, you're here too? Great site isn't it?Popular Frontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-70627359753440843162013-09-10T00:10:23.660-04:002013-09-10T00:10:23.660-04:00No DiploMad it isn't a euphemism at all, it is...No DiploMad it isn't a euphemism at all, it is just a novelty song about the Outback and the wildlife in it, such as:<br />Tie me kangaroo down, sport (friend)<br />Take me Koala back,Jack<br />Watch me Wallabies feed, mate<br />Keep me Cockatoo cool<br />and so on.Popular Frontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-74718380707526485762013-09-10T00:02:12.524-04:002013-09-10T00:02:12.524-04:00Come on down Delilah! Plenty of room here for ever...Come on down Delilah! Plenty of room here for everyone, provided you don't try to sneak in the back door in a crappy Indonesian fishing boat. We've had 50,000 of them thanks to the deadbeat Labor Party (not a typo, they actually spell it that way, the dumb lefties). Anyway, you'll fit right in.Popular Frontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-19023429198559801932013-09-09T23:57:12.179-04:002013-09-09T23:57:12.179-04:00Fulsome praise indeed, thank you friend. Yes Tony ...Fulsome praise indeed, thank you friend. Yes Tony Abbott is all that and more; Volunteer rural firefighter, Volunteer Surf Lifesaver(Lifeguard in the USA),Volunteer Remote Aboriginal educator, family man and true patriot, Rhodes Scholar. He speaks his mind and stands up for what he believes in, which is our great Commonwealth of Australia. The view amongst many is that he will be in office for quite some time, just like his mentor John Winston Howard. Do you hear those popping sounds? They are leftist heads exploding, paradigm shifting without a clutch. If you don't already know about it, check out the Catallaxy Files, a centre-right/libertarian website. All points of view are presented, the language can get a bit fruity sometimes but for a clear snapshot of Australian political thought and attitude, indispensable. Hopefully America will get somebody really sensible to steer the Ship Of State when next you get the chance.Popular Frontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-76367883939482010442013-09-09T22:51:32.726-04:002013-09-09T22:51:32.726-04:00I hope you're right. I always wonder about the...I hope you're right. I always wonder about these cases that come to light years and years later.DiploMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-80957123744338235592013-09-09T21:32:14.850-04:002013-09-09T21:32:14.850-04:00Oy, oy, oy.Oy, oy, oy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com