Jews follow Christ? Oh God she is fucking stupid!

Uoi know, you don't need to post the entire story when you posted a link to it. ;-)

You read things besides the BBC website?

troll

Truly amazing news... Australia still have Woolworths?!? Wow!

Nothing else in the story is worth reading. Who gives a damn about a mid ranking member of an irrelevent Australian finge party?

Octo - I'm sure you made similar comments about UKIP

Not exactly the same as a Vice Presidential running mate who could actually have obtained the position of President when McCain keeled over from a heart attack or something.

Insane fringe party people exist in the US too.

And yeah, Woolworths international was a separate company from Woolworths US, so they still exist in some countries. Much like Chi Chi's still exists in Belgium. But the US version of Woolworths still sort of exists...Foot Locker was a branch of that company, and managed to live through the closing of the main stores.

UKIP have Woolworths too?

Nigs, at least try to talk sense every now and then. UKIP are a mainstream centre-right political party who came third in the last council elections, have many MEPs and a foothold in the HoL

The One Nation lot seem to be a far right bunch who get less than one percent of Australian support. They are nothing like UKIP, in much the same way that this Steph woman is nothing like Palin.

Don't you see? A political party you happen to disagree with is automatically on the irrelevant fringe in NigeeBaby's mind.

Obama....57 states...
Obama...on Leno makes see comments about rebuilding infrastructure on Gulf Coast cities...like those in South Carolina.

Obama is apparent unaware of the geography of his own country.


Yeah...those wacky politicians....

Who was it said Africa was a country? That's right Sarah Palin, who can see Russia from her house. :-)

They are all pretty fucked in the head.

Seeing Russia from her house is from an SNL skit, not anything she said.

OK, so she actually just claimed you could see Russia from parts of Alaska. The Bering Strait is 53 miles across. there is nowhere in Alaska that you can see Russia.

There are two islands right next to each other in the strait. The Diomedes, I think. An athlete could easily swim it and the islands can totally see each other.

Don't get me wrong. Palin has no business being on a presidential ticket. But she's not some drooling moron either.

One island belongs to Russia, if that wasn't clear. And both are inhabited.

Bush 2 couldn't remember the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Ford said that Poland wasn't under Soviet control.

The lack of intelligence of political candidates and worse the ones that get elected is getting worse.

Most of it is, admittedly, teleprompter/cue card flubs or simple slips under pressure. I generally cut them slack as none of us would do any better under the spotlight.

Just for the record, at it's first outing One Nation (or One Notion, as often derided) got nearly a million first preferences for the house of reps (Aus federal lower house).
They aren't quite as "fringe" as many believe... Australia, for all it's apparent success in multiculturalism has a host of festering issues related to it.
Australia is a fringe country,but that's another story entirely.

Regarding the Diomede Islands (Big and Little Diomede)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Diomede_Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Diomede

The Little Diomede is US/Alaska owned, but the population is all of 135 people and it is 2.4 miles from Big Diomede, which is *not* populated as the native population was forced off by the Soviets during the Cold War and has not returned.

I somehow doubt Palin was referring to that but was just being her usual idiot/braggart self. After all, she tried to claim Trig as her own for some time, but got found out. Not exactly the "moral and upright" person one would hope to find in a VP running mate and candidate.

Sarah Palin was the reason I *didn't* vote for John McClain in 08. Both candidates had health plans that scared the fuck out of me, but I thought for sure if McCain got elected, she would end up in charge and that was too scary a thought to even consider. Sarah Palin was the best thing ever happened to President B.O.'s campaign.

I will retract the Trig part. That was only ever actually rumor and I guess she is his mother.

But she still scared the fuck out of me...

It's all the fun of the fair with our election
a Liberal Party ( Conservative ) candidate
was spouting his parties "Stop the Boats" mantra to TV journalists and referred
to their " 6 point plan to stop the boats" -- and a journalist asked him
"what are the 6 ?" and he just fell in a heap, couldnt elaborate other than
"well, we will stop the boats"
Another fun point is that we have had a minority Labour party Govt with support of independents for the last 3 years & the Liberals have been destabilising & running
"negative" and now they are promoting themselves as the only party capable of providing "majority Government"
This neatly ignores the fact that the Liberals have always had to form a coalition with the Country Party ( now called the National Party ) to form a Government, they have hardly ever ( if at all ) won enough seats to form a Government in their own right.

I am an old sceptic, Labour, Liberal & National Parties are all wonderfully inconsistent and no one party has a monopoly on hypocrisy

still, it is good to live in Australia where we have relatively free,
regular and well run elections with very little corruption.
What a shambles the recent election in Zimbabwe was with Robert Mugabe's party
running a corrupt & disgraceful farce of an election.
or that disgraceful Theocratic dictatorship in Iran
or the dictatorship in North Korea

although I did notice some electoral posters in my local village promoting some
"Australian Christian Party" that promises to "Save our Nation"
what from, I wonder, --- religious zealots who do not understand the principles of a
Secular State ?
google / look at the Youtube videos of Sam & Caleb Corneloup or Forbes Morrison
to get a glimpse of the religious extremists who are pestilential visitors to the charming
little village between two rivers by the sea where I reside
their dogma is a "God Hates Homosexuals, Gamblers, Drug Addicts etc" load of
nonsense
they spent a day ranting at the public recently when I was getting my mountain bicycle from the Bicycle shop after a service & I spent 3 hours disrupting them
every time they'd set up & start ranting I verbally hammered the chap holding the
"God Hates...." sign,
" What's this God who Hates, is that the Devil?, Beware of the Satanists worshipping a God of Hate!!! " etc
they'd give up ranting, move, set up, start ranting & I'd be into them verbally, they'd stop,
move again & the whole process would repeat. The chap with the God Hates sign wanted to run away and hide after an hour or so, totally demoralised

at least in Australia you can engage in the "contest of ideas" without the secret police
dragging you off to be tortured and or shot, or shot by some gun toting zealot like the poor doctors & nurses getting shot by anti abortionists in the USA