Thursday, March 25, 2010

Let out your Inner Communist!



This year, a special farewell wave to Senator Nick Minchin, who has just announced his retirement from politics. His best-known comment on climate change action is:
For the extreme left it provides the opportunity to do what they've always wanted to do, to sort of de-industrialise the western world. You know the collapse of communism was a disaster for the left, and they, and really they embraced environmentalism as their new religion. *
Therefore, I must be a Communist. Come and join me on the Dark Side! Literally!

* From the transcript of Four Corners' "Malcolm and the Malcontents", first broadcast 9 November 2009. When the program was first broadcast, Adelaide was experiencing its first ever November heatwave (five days or more where the maximum temperature reached 35 C/95 F). The heatwave ran for eight days.

2 comments:

Jayne said...

LOL
Yeah, cos that environmental stuff is soooo airy-fairy for the lefty radicals pfft.

Grandmaibb said...

Hi Chookie, just popped over from D2E forum. I spend my winters with my daughters in Sydney and drive them mad asking about all the insects i see. Your blog is great and I've learned loads, love the piccie of the red back as I was never sure what I was looking for. I had a huge huntsman in my bedroom at Bex house, SIL thought I was a bit mad because I made him catch it and let it go up the street.