I did a post a short while ago called Should Australia Accept All Boat People As Asylum Seekers? and I ended that post with the following;

I have no objection accepting them as genuine asylum seekers once they have been fully processed, but until then I expect them to behave in a peaceful manner

Why was I not surprised when I woke up to hear that rioters had torched the Villawood detention centre? Perhaps where they come from violence is the accepted solution when things don’t go their way but it’s definitely not the right thing to do if you’re wanting to be accepted into Australia. It appears that the riot was spurred by rejected asylum seekers, but what I want to know is why these people who had their claim rejected allowed to stay with the general population where they could fuel this riot with their anger at not getting their way?

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The fault would have to rest with the current government whose weakened policies allowed the large influx of boat people. I understand that they do not like to be kept incarcerated in detention centres but they have to understand that they have entered our shores illegally and they have to be processed before they can be accepted as refugees. A process that would probably go a lot faster if they had not destroyed all their papers before coming here. What’s with that anyway, I mean what have they to hide?

Also, it must be awful to be kept behind laser wire but surely its better than the country they are running away from, a country where they feared for their lives? As awful as it must be I’m sure they are better off than all the homeless Australians who have no idea where their next meal is coming from? At least they have a roof over their heads, access to food, a computer room,  and a medical centre. At least they did before the rioters torched the computer room, kitchen and medical centre.

They want to be treated humanely and yet they act like animals throwing roof tiles and whatever else they could find at fire fighters and policemen. How fortunate for them that they are in Australia because had they acted in such a manner in their homeland I’m sure their government would not be so lenient with them.

I only hope that those behind the riots are dealt with swiftly and that they are not allowed refugee status. We do not need people who take the law into their own hands every time things do not go their way.

When a politician is fighting to win or retain government they will all make promises to win over the electorate. We as the public expect them to keep their promises wherever possible. In the last election on of the hot topics of discussion was the carbon tax and Julia knowing the were not hot on having one promised the Australia public that while in government she would not introduce a carbon tax. Don’t believe me? Watch this video.

There are a lot of videos on YouTube showing just the promise but I’ve chosen this one because it shows her trying to get around it. Like one of the reporters asked her why not just say you changed your mind? Because that would mean admitting she was wrong and she much rather try to baffle the Australian public with her bullshit.

In the AdelaideNow online poll asking whether people supported a price on carbon almost 20000 people responded and 84% said no! And so they should because putting a price on carbon is more than just an extra tax, one that may cost Australians an extra $20 per week, it could cripple Australian industry forcing some to go overseas and the smaller companies to close down. This is understandable because it makes us even more uncompetitive when forced to compete on a market where many countries do not have a carbon tax.

What I don’t understand is how it will reduce the amount of carbon spewed out into the atmosphere it all we’re doing is charging companies for the amount of carbon produced. So in essence they will still be producing carbon but paying for it and then passing the cost onto everyone else. It makes no sense whatsoever.

Personally I think they should introduce nuclear energy and it’s the only one able to produce enough electricity to support the nation. Wind energy and the like just can’t produce enough and it’s cost is way higher.

Just to finish off I’d like to end with the following video titled Julia Gillard Carbon Tax – The Lies In Your Eyes.

I know that there are many people who would answer yes to this question but I personally disagree. It’s not that I don’t have a heart either, it’s only because I feel they should only gain entry once they have been fairly processed.

Just because they seem to be fleeing from a country of persecution does not necessarily give them right to entry. We don’t know their background, whether they’re murderers, rapists or even potential terrorists. Take those who are fleeing Afghanistan for instance, you would think that once they had made it to India they would be free from being persecuted and they could seek temporary asylum there. Once there they could take the proper avenues to come to Australia legally. But no, they have to travel from there to Indonesia or Malaysia or something and then they are willing to pay thousands of dollars to risk their life on a rickety boat to Australia.

I’ve even heard that they destroy all papers that identify who they are. Why would they do that unless someone is feeding them some crap? The thing is that failure to produce the right papers only makes processing them that much more difficult causing unnecessary delay.

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There is a reason we patrol our shores at great expense, and that is to protect our country. When the liberals were in government the amount of boat people were kept at a minimum but under the current labor government they have jumped astronomically and only because they perceive an easier passage into Australia.

If we want to prevent the loss of life the logical thing to do would be to make it harder for them to come over. We have to stop stories of a life where they get everything handed to them on a silver platter. Only if we stop them from attempting the voyage can we prevent the loss of life.

Opening our arms to them would only encourage more of them to take the risky voyage and this only increases the potential for loss of life.

I often wonder why so many of them, once they get placed into detention centers while waiting to get processed, get so upset, that they have to sew their lips together in protest or to go on hunger strikes or to even go to the extent of setting buildings alight? Surely now that they have reached Australia and have escaped persecution they should have the decency to wait patiently while they get processed? We give them food, a roof over their heads and access to our legal system, all at our expense. I would hate to think what would have happened to them if they acted in such a way in their own country.

I have no objection accepting them as genuine asylum seekers once they have been fully processed, but until then I expect them to behave in a peaceful manner.

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This stupid Labor Government has done a lot of idiotic things since it’s been in power but this is beyond belief. I’ve just discovered that it has graciously granted our loyal soldiers who are fighting in Afghanistan the right to a couple of beers over Christmas. Nothing wrong with that you say, those diggers have earned the right to have a couple of beers. And too right you are too, but those morons over in Canberra are going to charge them $5 a can for the privilege.

You don’t believe me do you? I mean no government would be that mean spirited, would they? Although this article blames it all on the Defence Department we all know who they answer to and who has the power to tell them to pull their heads in. Come on you wankers, do the right thing and shout our diggers a couple of beers over Christmas.

As wonderful as the Internet is it is also full of ways where people can rip you off. As you well know I continually post articles of any scams I come across just to warn others so that they don’t get caught in scammers evil web of deceit and exploitation.

Did you know though, that a lot of the time you could be giving them the ammunition so that they can target you? Scammers aside, did you know that employers actually go online to check out job applicants? Well they do and I’ve read that over 70% of job applicants are rejected because of information that is readily available about them online.

This problem is so widespread as can be seen from this video where The Wall Street Journal’s Ben Worthen explains why ReputationDefender and other privacy-oriented companies have become popular targets for venture capital firms.

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Yep, you won’t see anymore Adsense ads on this blog because Google in all it’s wisdom decided that I violated their TOS by writing my satirical post on penile extensions. Take a look at the email they sent me.

Hello,

While reviewing your account, we noticed that you are currently displaying Google ads in a manner that is not compliant with our policies. For instance, we found violations of AdSense policies on pages such as http://www.loadofbullshit.com/2008/05/20/penile-extensions-now-available-via-the-penis-extender-deluxe/.
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In essence Sites with Adsense may not include or link to the following:

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Sales of weapons or ammunition (e.g. firearms, firearm components, fighting knives, stun guns)

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Any other content that is illegal, promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights of others

Strange that they picked on that particular post because I don’t think that it violated any of the above points. OK, maybe if you were going to stretch it some you may say it could be considered of an adult nature but you’d have to be a puritan to go that far. And how about my mate Mitch you suffered the same fate because he wrote a post on cleavage! Now if that isn’t bullshit I don’t know what is.

Man, if you can’t write about cleavage what else can’t you write about? heaven forbid if you used the word sex in  your post. I’m sure that a human never read our posts and that Google relied on the decision from some random Spider Bot or web crawler. If this is true than all post could fall foul of these moronic scripts that scrounge the net looking for what they believe to be violations.

Too bad if you fall foul of their search because once you’ve been disabled they won’t listen to reason as this reply to my email shows.

Hello,

Thanks for your email. However, please be aware that because your site was found to be in violation of our program policies, it is no longer eligible for participation in the AdSense program.

Your account remains active, and you are welcome to place Google ads on other sites which comply with AdSense policies.

Yep, they just don’t care about the little guys, the heartless bastards. What they fail t realize is that they can’t survive with out us. It’s only because we graciously place their ads on our blogs and websites that they’re about to fleece millions of dollars from advertisers! Without us they would lose their cash cow. In reality they should have a people that would take the time to listen to our grievances when this sort of thing occurs, so they can sort the good from the bad but they just don’t seem to care.

If this has happened to you, you may be interested in my post, There IS Life After Google Adsense!

I couldn’t believe it when I heard that Rudd would get a $600,000 pension for the rest of his life. How can that be? When any other Australian retires they’re lucky to get a pension. Imagine working all your life, busting your balls to make a buck all the while the Government is taking their cut to run the country. That’s cool you say because everyone has to contribute their bit right? And if you earn a little too much the Government will kindly tell you. “Sorry, you don’t deserve a pension because you’ve got too much in the kitty”.

Not so the politicians, those guys over at Parliament House live by a different set of rules. Look at Rudd, he couldn’t even finish his full term as PM, actually getting kicked out by his own party, and he’s guaranteed a huge pension for life, even if he was to leave politics tomorrow at the ripe old age of 52! Shit we can’t get a pension until 65, and only if we don’t put too much away. Not Rudd and his political cronies, which includes the Liberal and other parties. Shit, does he even deserve a pension when his wife is worth somewhere around the $56 million mark?

OK, maybe that’s a little harsh. Perhaps all politicians are not the same. It seems Senator Steve Fielding wants to shit down Fat Pollie Payouts, but I can’t see anything coming of this unless Aussies make a stand.

From what I can see most politicians think they are doing it tough and are looking for a higher salary and more allowances, as if they haven’t got enough perks. Yep, why shouldn’t they get more money and fringe benefits while the rest of the Australian public is doing it tough?

If you’re wondering what some of the perks politicians are getting you may find this expose of some interest. So, you see in this world of ours there seems to be two sets of rules, one for the politicians and one for the rest of Australians, and you know what, that’s a whole load of bullshit!

It seems the the Kevin Rudd’s political career has ended as dramatically as it started exactly 2 years 6 months and 21 days after becoming he Prime Minister of Australia. He would have had to have been the most popular PM we’ve had for a long time and his Labor colleagues couldn’t praise him highly enough.

Yet those same colleagues, especially the power brokers from the right faction, planned his demise. Almost Judas style they delivered the coupe in 24 hours not seven days after Kevin said, after asked about rumors of dissent from within the party, that he would lead the party to the next election. To say he was shocked about the whole thing would be an understatement.

And so we have two historical moments in Australia history. The first being that Kevin Rudd was kicked out by his own party before completing his first term and while still holding the lead. The second being that Julia Gillard is Australia’s first ever female Prime Minister. After listening to Mr Rudd’s very emotional final speech I must say it is Rudd at his best, probably because it was from the heart and not something put together for him.

Those of you who have been following this blog know that I haven’t been all that positive about the way Labor has lead this country over the last couple of years and most of that blame has fallen on Rudd, but that’s only because he’s the leader.

The real culprit is the Labor Party itself, and the only reason they ousted Rudd is because they’re hoping the Australian people will be fooled into thinking that having a female PM will make everything OK. It won’t because it’s still the same party, and let’s not forget that Miss Gillard didn’t handle her portfolio all that well, pretty dismally in fact, and a lot of the mistakes must be shared by her and the rest of her cohorts.

There is no doubt that Julia Gillard will have a honeymoon period, especially being the first ever female Prime Minister, but whether this is enough to win the next election remains to be seen.

What I find really amusing is how the Labor party in the last election said a vote for Howard would be a vote for Costello and here we are not three years later having a PM we didn’t vote for. Considering how the right faction has put someone from the left faction into power one has to wonder what it would take for them to knife her in the back, just as they did to Kevin Rudd, if she doesn’t act according to their wishes. And here I was thinking that as an Australian citizen I could choose who I want as a leader only to find out that I really have no saying the matter at all.

For those of you who played last night’s Oz Lotto don’t be all that worried if you didn’t win because no-one else did either, if your not sure I will post the results at the end of this post. Naturally because no-one won the major prize that means the jackpot has increased once again, this time to a cool $50,000,000!

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Although the facts that most Governments have know idea how to spend money wisely the Labor Government seems to be worse at it than most. Just today I got a lovely glossy nicely folded colour brochure with the bold words “Someone who’s working for us” printed on the front.

Upon opening it I found it was from the Labor candidate, Nick Champion but for the life of me I couldn’t work out why this unnecessary expense when we’ve just had the State elections not that long ago. Upon reading it I noticed Rudd’s name all over it and so it all became clear, they’ve started early, leading up to the Federal elections.

Sure it could be because I lean towards the Liberals, but I found a lot of it to be full of crap.  There was one section where it proclaimed; “Working with Kevin Rudd to build a better future for families.” It then goes on to say, “Here are just some of the achievements of the Rudd Government in the last two years.” OK, let’s have a look at those shall we?

Acting decisively to support jobs, tradespeople and small business during the Global recessiom.

Yeah, they did that really well didn’t they? This no doubt includes Rudd’s massive insulation roll out which was done without the proper planning causing the death of several people and many house fires. Now it’s going to cost the tax payer billions.

Record infrastructure investment including the largest schools building program ever.

Yeah this is probably referring to his bullshit Education Revolution. This was so poorly planned that not only did we over pay hundreds of thousands of dollars per school many of them didn’t even get the buildings they needed, instead they received buildings that were of no use to them.

Funding 1000 new nurse training places and a 35% increase in GP training to address a shortage of GPs

This was a good policy on there part so I’ll give them that.

Investing in new cancer research and treatment centres

Another good move on their part.

Supporting investment in solar and wind power to protect our environment for future generations.

Sorry, this type of electricity does nothing for the base load and only works when wind or sun exists, not to mention that wind power is very costly. I would suggest we take the bold move of going nuclear.

Abolishing WorkChoices and restoring fairness to the workplace

Not sure how accurate this is. While it seems that the workers may get a fairer deal it would only be at the cost of the employer and may actually speed up the rate of employers moving their operations overseas. Once that happens where’s the jobs coming from then?

Honestly Nick, rather than wasting tax payers money perhaps it would be better to get off your ass and mingle with the community. Find out what they need and work toward it even if it means going against your cronies.