Things that make you go... WTF?!
Friday Ranting - full steam ahead.
1. Qantas stood down two of their pilots this week, after they had delayed a flight out of Manila, due their initial refusal to submit to a security check that required them to remove their shoes. Now I realise when talking about pilots there is a presumption of utter arrogance and conceitfulness (Rob? Are you still lurking?) but I have a sneaking suspicion that in order to get a license to fly a great big plane, filled to the gunnels with innocent civilians, pilots would have been subject to a vertitable barrage of security and personality checks. Checks that would be repeated at regular intervals.
I mean, if we can't trust the pilots, who can we trust?
Plus - surely the concept of checking a pilot's shoes for hidden explosives is particularly redundant. After all, they're flying the damn plane. If they wanted to do any damage, they wouldn't need to blow it up, they could just point the nose at the ground and sit back and relax. Surely?
2. Kim bloody Beasley and his stupid bloody 'Australian Values' statement. Does the man have NO IDEA? People have to make an oath of allegiance to the country when they become citizens. I think that's fair. I do not think it's fair, reasonable or even vaguely sane, to require everyone who comes to this country, in any capacity, to sign some dodgy acknowledgement of 'Australian values'. For starters, no-one can quite put their finger on what these amorphous 'values' are. His waffling about respect for women, mateship, tolerance of religion, blahdy blahdy blah is all very laudable, but completely impractical! How about making people born in Australia subscribe to these values...? You can't do it! And you know why - because it's a free country (yes it still is... apparently) and you can't enforce a standard set of values. We don't have a branch of the Thought Police here yet.
However, my irritation at Kim Beasley pales into insignificance at the buffoonery that is Richard Glover's Drive program on 702 Sydney. He's the wishiest washiest wettest leftie ever. His main point in relation to Bomber's proposal, repeated every day since the policy-on-the-run announcement, was that if we make tourists sign a document supporting Aussie values, then whenever we visit Iran, we would be expected to do the same.
Iran.
Yes, because we're all rushing off in droves to visit Iran.
Yet surely, whenever we visit any foreign country, we are in effect signing on to their values, because we acknowledge that we have to uphold their laws.
Iran?!
I swear that listening to the man is like being slapped about the face with a floppy flounder.
1. Qantas stood down two of their pilots this week, after they had delayed a flight out of Manila, due their initial refusal to submit to a security check that required them to remove their shoes. Now I realise when talking about pilots there is a presumption of utter arrogance and conceitfulness (Rob? Are you still lurking?) but I have a sneaking suspicion that in order to get a license to fly a great big plane, filled to the gunnels with innocent civilians, pilots would have been subject to a vertitable barrage of security and personality checks. Checks that would be repeated at regular intervals.
I mean, if we can't trust the pilots, who can we trust?
Plus - surely the concept of checking a pilot's shoes for hidden explosives is particularly redundant. After all, they're flying the damn plane. If they wanted to do any damage, they wouldn't need to blow it up, they could just point the nose at the ground and sit back and relax. Surely?
2. Kim bloody Beasley and his stupid bloody 'Australian Values' statement. Does the man have NO IDEA? People have to make an oath of allegiance to the country when they become citizens. I think that's fair. I do not think it's fair, reasonable or even vaguely sane, to require everyone who comes to this country, in any capacity, to sign some dodgy acknowledgement of 'Australian values'. For starters, no-one can quite put their finger on what these amorphous 'values' are. His waffling about respect for women, mateship, tolerance of religion, blahdy blahdy blah is all very laudable, but completely impractical! How about making people born in Australia subscribe to these values...? You can't do it! And you know why - because it's a free country (yes it still is... apparently) and you can't enforce a standard set of values. We don't have a branch of the Thought Police here yet.
However, my irritation at Kim Beasley pales into insignificance at the buffoonery that is Richard Glover's Drive program on 702 Sydney. He's the wishiest washiest wettest leftie ever. His main point in relation to Bomber's proposal, repeated every day since the policy-on-the-run announcement, was that if we make tourists sign a document supporting Aussie values, then whenever we visit Iran, we would be expected to do the same.
Iran.
Yes, because we're all rushing off in droves to visit Iran.
Yet surely, whenever we visit any foreign country, we are in effect signing on to their values, because we acknowledge that we have to uphold their laws.
Iran?!
I swear that listening to the man is like being slapped about the face with a floppy flounder.
posted by actonb at 10:48 am
2 Comments:
a floppy flounder! hahahahaaha!
nice rant B. i wasnt so sure about the pilots thing. i guess there is the possibility that they could be bribed or threatened to hide something in their shoe.
i wonder if the hosties arent allowed to carry on their lipsticks and moisturisers like everyone else?
that sounds suspiciously like me after every weekend...
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