Muslim Women Swimming Facility
There has been a trend slowly gaining momentum in this country, it involves listening to the minority and making changes to suit them rather than the masses. The most prevalent at the moment is the Gillard Government Climate Change Pollution tax which as far as the polls claim, it not something wanted by the majority of Australians. But there is a new development in the wondering world of minority policy changes. Monash Council in Victoria has voted to pay for a curtain to allow Muslim women to swim at the Monash Public swimming pool without their religious attire. The problem comes at the costing, the curtains will cost $45'000 to purchase and install. This is coming out of the playground budget and therefore will adversely affect the safety, quality and accessibility of the playgrounds for the local children. You can't take $45'000 out of a particular budget and expect it not to cause a ripple on effect when the money is later needed.
The Muslim women in the community who have obviously made requests for a form of private swimming time are costing hard-working rate payers this absurd amount of money when they are in a minority. How many women are expected to use this new curtain swimming facility? Well nobody who has been apart of the process is saying anything about the number of expectant Muslim women who will take part.
The curtains are to cover the glass facade of the building to allow the running of the event after normal operating hours. Because the perceived idea that while the lights are on inside, men would go to the glass walls and look at these women for their own gratification. Well I don't think I have heard a more far stretched theory. Men can stand at this window at any time, any day or night and watch as many non-Muslim women as they like. Yet those women have no protection against the same perverted people.
This country is a one that prides itself on the ability for any person to make a living and enjoy a safe and prosperous lifestyle. We have this lifestyle due to the overwhelming nature of Australians and the opportunities provided. So when people who come from overseas to take part in the ways of Australian life, they want the laws and process' changed to suit their wants and needs. Do you think a small group of Australians could request an open air bar in a Arab country? Never, because they have objections to public drinking. So why should we make changes to our country to suit a very small minority of people, especially when it involves a large amount of money taken from a children's playground budget.
I can see some major changes that astound me, because they involve minority groups, Islam women are in the headlines, because Burqa's are a cover all type of attire that restrict normal process of identification. And only now are Police looking into whether or not it is legal for them to ask for the attire to be altered on the spot to allow for identification. Are you serious? Can Police simply not ask or if refused, force a person wearing a Burqa to remove parts thereof to allow for them to be identified? I cannot wear a motorbike helmet into a bank, because the staff would immediately call the Police, yet someone can wear a complete cover Burqa and happily go about their banking. At least with a motorbike helmet it wont cover clothing and therefore you would have something to alert Police about. Yet with a Burqa, you could only say "Officer I think it was black, yes I know it was black, from head to toe". What good is that? Burqas only come in black or blue!
How about making some laws to protect and serve the majority? Don't allow multiple wives, even if they are married outside this country. Because I dont want to have to foot their Centrelink payments.
Power Plant Protesters
Australia has an energy love affair with coal fired electricity generators and it seems to get on the nerves of every brain cell deprived hippie in the country. They want us to use overpriced and under powered wind turbines or expensive and space restricting solar panels. The problem for the hippies is they do not feel contempt with simply arguing until the cows come home with the government. They want to make waves and cause havoc for the rest of us innocent people. So they break into coal fired power plants and try to shut them down. Do these idiotic morons think its ok to put the rest of us into chaos for their un-educated cause? Wait a second, that's it they don't think.
How dare they shut down my electronic life for their pointless pursuit of Al Gorism. See while they are living out his little documentary, he is cashing in and swimming in champagne. The government will not shut down its coal generators while we are sitting on a huge supply, regardless of it's 'enviromental' effects.
Stay in your comunes and smoke the peace pipe, just don't shut down my 240 volts.
Wonderful World of the Obvious
Sometimes you’ll be out and about and see some signs that defy belief, you begin to wonder if man is getting smarter or have some of us lost half our brains overnight. I saw a sign on the back of a long bed truck which read “caution: vehicle subject to reversing”, which no doubt was included with a reversing beeper. Now I hear your rebuttal, that the beeper is for the blind, first of all, just how many blind people do you see walking behind trucks and how many of them can’t hear the truck in the first place?
I’ve seen a new trend in signs warning you about fines for doing the wrong thing, for instance on the train, it warns you not to put your feet on the seat, if you do ‘you might be fined’. What kind of threat is ‘might’? Does a boxer threaten his opponent by saying ‘I might knock you out’, of course not because that shows weakness. Telling the public there is a chance they will get away with it, is enough of a reason for them to try.
Now there are people all over our country putting up signs saying they recognise the traditional owners of the land where their house is. But how much do they really care about those previous occupants. If that tribe where to come around one night in search of accommodation (as was organised by John Safran) would people allow them to stay. Considering you acknowledge their previous tenancy, you would think that its ok for them to come back wouldn’t you? Not so clean cut as that. There is a fine line between the truth and the image people like to portray.
One sign that is quite large and obvious but largely ignored is the sign asking people not to climb the Rock at Uluru. Now I think we should not climb it to be honest, my reasoning for this, Americans. They bring toilet paper, because who wants to come all the way to Australia and not dump on our rock, just another reason why their called septics. They think that a half day trip up and down the rock cannot be done without a bowel movement, so they bring toilet paper. Which means a jolly good number two and plenty of ones to flow down our rock. Now there is a simple way for this to be rectified. Don’t let them climb it! Now I’m sure they figure the climb is part of the lure to getting the tourists there in the first place, but I don’t buy that. You see after 9/11 the Statue of Liberty shut her doors to tourists going to the top, and it still received normal visitor numbers for years until it re-opened. It’s a huge tourist attraction, but that doesn’t mean you can let them defecate on it for the sake of the dollar.
‘Don’t feed the birds’ is a sign all too often ignored at a local park. What parent bothers to explain to their child why you shouldn’t feed the local birds. Instead they cop out on a vital educational moment for the ease of giving their brats food to throw at the wildlife. You see I used an important term there ‘wildlife’ more importantly the word wild. These animals are relying on the visitors for a very basic not natural portion of their diet: bread. They don’t normally have such a readily available source of carbohydrates, yet from us they can eat all the bread they like. These birds and water fowl have lived their quite happily before us and could do so after us, yet they come to rely on us if we bring them food, even teaching their young the importance of us over hunting. Your changing nature in a very dangerous way. But hey it’s only a sign, don’t feed the birds, maybe they mean everyone else except you, yeah that sounds right.