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DEVENY DEVOLVES
Their policies are practically identical, but the government is evil and the opposition is angelic, according to the Age’s Catherine Deveny:
When you find yourself at the ballot box on Saturday, remember, my friends, that this is a rare opportunity to make a difference to the soul of Australia.
Beginning as she means to continue, Catherine offers a platitude that would repel even Kevin Rudd.
Our participation in public life is limited to five minutes every three years ...
Doesn’t get out much, does she?
... and an election like this only comes about once in a lifetime.
Once every three years, actually. There’s a clue right there at the start of the sentence.
In four days you will have an impact on the history and the direction of our country. Your vote will affect people who haven’t even been born yet.
Unless you live in a safe Labor or Coalition seat, which is most of them, as it happens. Vote any way you like; no change. Bad luck, unborn!
You’ll have an opportunity to stand up and say, “We’re better than this.” Braver than this. Smarter than this. And more compassionate than this. And bigger than this.
What is this “this” to which Catherine refers? Is it voting? Are we bigger than voting?
We are not afraid of the future. We are shamed by our recent past. But united by the possibility of the future. And hope.
The possibility of the future? Oh, I think it’s gonna happen, Cathy. Bet on it.
This election is an intelligence test.
For some reason I’m picturing Cathy emerging from a voting booth with a pencil stuck up her nose.
A test to prove we can see past the spin, the dog whistles, the short-sighted rhetoric, the scare campaigns, the pork-barrelling and the fearmongering. A test to show that we are smarter than the Government gives us credit for.
A test to show if we can spot the fake tradesman.
If we do not seize this opportunity for change we will go down in history as the most greedy, gullible, mean-spirited, selfish, short-sighted, tight-fisted generation in the history of Australia.
When it comes to mean-spiritedness, Deveny is a hard act to follow.
How will it feel sitting in front of that $5000 plasma TV watching reruns of American reality shows, wearing clothes manufactured in a sweat shop and sitting on a sofa made by Third World slaves?
We’ve been buying imported televisions, clothes and furniture for decades. How will voting Labor make any difference?
How will that feel when our public education and hospitals have been gutted ...
Ask state Labor governments, to whom these responsibilities fall.
... and our environment corroded to a point of no return?
A few lines previously Deveny was urging us to see past “scare campaigns” and “fearmongering”.
How will it feel knowing we have turned our back on people who need us most: the poor, the broken, the scared, the sick, the elderly and the vulnerable?
After eleven years of Howard, how is it these people are even still alive? Surely more than a decade of vicious neglect must by now have finished them off.
How will it feel when you turn to your children and say, “I believed him”?
More interesting: how will the children feel? Probably a little concerned about mother’s daytime drinking.
On Saturday, you can prove that what is in your heart and on your conscience is more important than what’s in your hip pocket.
Vote for less money! But Kevin Rudd swears he’s an economic conservative who won’t cost us a cent. You calling him a liar, girl?
You’ll be able to say to your grandchildren that you voted for better. You voted for truth. You voted for imagination.
At which point the grandkids run from the room.
You voted for all of us, not just for the white middle-class working families who have never had it so good.
Whoa ... ”white”? Is there a racial component to this election we’ve all missed somehow?
Our family has never been better off because we are one of those white middle-class working families.
So you’re among the majority of Australians. Howard should have used Catherine in campaign ads.
But not all of us are working. We are not all white. We do not all speak English. We are not all heterosexual. And we are not all families. But we all deserve a life of dignity, peace and fairness.
Deveny’s righteousness isn’t at all diminished by the fact she’s white, speaks English, is heterosexual, a mother, and - by some miracle - employed.
I don’t have to imagine how it feels to be an outsider. I know. I know how it feels to be a child and have our home sold from under us.
How does that happen, exactly? Some rogue house-selling gang holds an auction when you aren’t looking, and before you know it your house has been sold and you’ve got to go live somewhere else? Wow.
I know how it feels to live with parents crushed by poverty and paralysed by hopelessness. I know how it feels when you can’t afford to go to camp and instead have to wave the bus goodbye. I know how it feels to know that you are poor.
Hey, happened to me, too. During the Whitlam years. But Catherine really should stop obsessing over her hip pocket; what’s in your heart is more important!
But like many people from the working classes, I also know how it feels to be given a chance. And the thrill of achievement beyond your wildest expectations. To live the better life for which our families courageously fled poverty, war, persecution and famine.
Why, this sounds like nothing more than white middle-class working family triumphalism.
Opportunity is created only through vision, tolerance, acceptance and imagination.
The mark of a completely meaningless sentence: it remains precisely as meaningless no matter how you mix it up. “Tolerance is created only through vision, opportunity, acceptance and imagination”; “Vision is created only through opportunity, tolerance, acceptance and imagination”; “Imagination is created only through vision, tolerance, acceptance and opportunity”. By the way, imagination won’t be supplied by any of Deveny’s hated workers, for, as she’s previously written: “Blue-collar Australia has no imagination.”
Look back at the past 11 years and imagine the next decade as more of the same.
Can we imagine it without any more Deveny columns? Please?
On Saturday you will have a rare opportunity to prove to our past, to our present and to our future that we are better than this.
Take that, past!
And we are not stupid enough to swallow the short way round but the long way home.
Speechless.
At my grade 6 graduation, I stood side by side with Greeks, Yugoslavs, Macedonians, Poles, Italians and Maltese and we sang: “I’m as Greek as a Souvlaki, I’m as Irish as a stew, I’m as Italian as spaghetti, I’m as Danish as a blue, I’m as German as a dumpling, Middle Eastern as a lamb. I’m an Aussie, yes I’m an Aussie, yes I am.”
And we believed it.
Is Catherine suggesting that Greeks, Yugoslavs, Macedonians, Poles, Italians and Maltese have become disenfranchised under Howard? Hard to tell, given these paragraphs seem unrelated to the rest of Catherine’s column.
Over the past 11 years, I have lost faith in the Australian people.
Including the Greeks, Yugoslavs, Macedonians, Poles, Italians and Maltese?
I’ve felt shame at the spin they have swallowed, the politicians they have believed and the values they have embraced. I’m horrified at how politicians have chosen to lead our country using fear over faith ...
She’s a member of the faith-based community!
I just hope I am not alone. There’s plenty for all of us.
The worst political speech of the whole campaign ... and it wasn’t delivered by a politician.
UPDATE. Age letter-writer Edward Butler:
Congratulations to Catherine Deveny for spelling out a reason to cast a vote this election that is not about ourselves and, most importantly, our wallets. I have grown weary of the election being conducted along the lines of how a Liberal or Labor government will make ME better off. Consideration for other people rarely, if ever, warrants a mention.
During times of financial plenty, it is incumbent upon us to show the greatest care towards those who have not benefited, to help raise them up and give them opportunities that we have enjoyed.
Deveny acknowledges that “working families” have “never had it so good”. It’s almost as though they’ve been “raised up” and “given opportunities”.
Jesus wept, what sort of drugs is this skank on. Must be a hoot around her place and I bet her kids must be wondering how the hell they can get out of there. If she wants to slit her wrists, I have a very nice surgical knife here. I’ll send it to her for free in an overnight next day delivery bag. Wankeress!
It’s hard to say if I could ever be persuaded to accept any leftoid programs because I just can’t get past the fact that they are such awful people.
Posted by oldirishpig on 2007 11 21 at 09:24 AM • permalinkDamn, I’m going to go to sleep with that song going through my head.
I remember it.
As for Mz Deveney, what a load of whiny, pretentious twaddle.
People actually pay her to write??
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 11 21 at 09:37 AM • permalinkRe: the fake tradesman…
Listed on his MySpace page are his general interests: “Anything pretty much. Except incest and line dancing. I’m a singer/entertainer and have been most of my life. Work all over the place. Don’t really know what to say right about now. Kinda weird.”
What kind of person feels the need to write that incest isn’t one of their interests? I’m pretty sure that incest doesn’t appeal to almost everyone, so why mention it?
Is there a greater example than this piece of the parallel universe that the Left has come to inhabit in the 21st century? Is so then I’m yet to see it.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 11 21 at 09:39 AM • permalinkYou voted for truth. You voted for imagination.
Make up your mind, girl.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 11 21 at 09:51 AM • permalinkIt’s not far off the gibberish that Kevni was allowed to spruik twice on “our” ABC, first at the National Press Club speech then on the 7.30 Report with Red Kezza- there’s an air of desperation in Kevvieville if you ask me, the word from WA and our wonderful hillbilly-infested enclave of (include the interuption- a fucking sugarloaf cockroack just ran across me, occaisionig it’s death) Queensland isn’t Kevvie Country.
“Doesn’t get out much, does she?”
Comes with the territory when you’re too bloated to fit through the doorway.
I gather from her hysterical (but none too coherent) ranting she has some sort of problem with the Howard government, but I’m pretty sure “we’re being starved to death by the Liberals!” isn’t part of the problem.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 11 21 at 10:00 AM • permalinkI nearly soiled my trousers during an item on the ABC at lunchtime- they had a feature on small business, and how they were effected/wanted a new government to sort things- of the three put up as small business, one was Gleebe Boooks, the best source of Marxist bollocks this side of old lefties leaving copies of the Little Red Schoolbook between your bike spokes, and some pillock from a dance company, who insisted dance would be popular if it had enough public money.
Lets face it, pillocks poncing about like they’ve got flesh-eating ants in their undies goes over like gangbusters if you’re required to attend by AK47.Sorry about this completely off-topic, but I am so excited about the big news. It appears that the animal rights org PETA has a 90% KILL RATE! But that is only the big news. The really big news is that we, Canada, get an EAR, while you Aussies get squat!!! Even though Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA, appears to be the evil, separated at birth, TWIN of Greg Norman. Yeah Canada!!!
Posted by bobzorunkle on 2007 11 21 at 10:36 AM • permalinkI am of the opinion that La Deveney may have been slurping on the fabled Fruity Lexia ($13.99 for 4 litres at Liquorland) before she pounded out that drivel.
Reads like something a 14 year old would write. Just needs a few unicorns, rainbows and coloured balloons.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 11 21 at 10:56 AM • permalink“And we are not stupid enough to swallow the short way round but the long way home”
There are plenty of DVDs available via mail-order from the ACT with numerous examples of people who will do either. The soundtrack usually suck, though.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 11 21 at 10:59 AM • permalink“During times of financial plenty, it is incumbent upon us to show the greatest care towards those who have not benefited, to help raise them up and give them opportunities that we have enjoyed.”
So, who’s stopping you?
Try doing it yourself instaed of waiting for some government to do it for you.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 11 21 at 11:35 AM • permalinkThis Catherine Deveny person is terribly self-absorbed, isn’t she? It’s all about her feelings… Gawd I hate emo-journalism. It’s the thing that makes me crumple up the paper and pitch it across the room. Yeah, it does sound as if it were written by a 14-year-old.
That was some hilarious dismembering, Tim.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 11 21 at 11:41 AM • permalinkOne of the Age’s letter-writers, who I won’t say outright is a nutter, said.-
“During times of financial plenty it is incumbent upon us to show the greatest care towards those who have not benefited, to raise them up and give them opportunities that we have not enjoyed.”
Speak for yourself, mate.
We’ve done that for ourselves and our kids without the benefit of your money.
How about you do it for yourself without the benefit of ours?
My perfect version of the tax system, eh?
worst column ever- though I bet she could top it if the nation loses its collective mind on saturday and Krudd wins.
a happier alternative would be a coalition victory, then she can top herself.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 21 at 11:55 AM • permalinkI am willing to grant that not all lefties are stupid. I’m even more willing to accept that not all stupid people are lefties.
But combine leftiness and stupidity and you have something breathtaking. Because you’re too busy gagging.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 11 21 at 12:43 PM • permalinkYou’ll have an opportunity to stand up and say, “We’re better than this.” Braver than this. Smarter than this. And more compassionate than this. And bigger than this.
And niftier than this. And kewler than this. And doughtier than this. And nicer than this. And funnier than this.
Ooh, ooh, I hope all her comrades take that opportunity to talk and talk and talk in mewling comparatives and forget to mark the ballot.
Catherine Deveny -
“And we are not stupid enough to swallow the short way round but the long way home.”
“I’ve felt shame at the spin they have swallowed, the politicians they have believed and the values they have embraced.”
Evidently something traumatic has happened to the poor woman, something in the past, that involved distasteful swallowing of some sort. Maybe it was castor oil.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 11 21 at 01:03 PM • permalink“Evidently something traumatic has happened to the poor woman, something in the past, that involved distasteful swallowing of some sort.”
She’s definitely an accomplished swallower.
No doubt about that.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 11 21 at 01:42 PM • permalinkNow that you mention it, wronwright, she does seem to have some sort of phobia about swallowing…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 11 21 at 01:44 PM • permalinkThis election is an intelligence test.
Ah! Ms. Devany. We’ve completed the analysis of your vote and are now in a position to suggest a suitable career path for you based on your I.Q. Any of the following professions seems to be well within the scope of your abilities:
1) Assistant charwoman
2) Nitroglycerine delivery truck driver
3) Shark-repellant tester
4) Democratic member, U.S. House of Representatives (U.S naturalization may be required).Please make your check for $500 out to Professional Assessment of Career Opportunities, LLC.
I stood side by side with Greeks, Yugoslavs, Macedonians, Poles, Italians and Maltese…
She’s left out the Lebanese, the racialist wankette!
I’ll bet they out-number Maltese—at least in the criminal courts.Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 11 21 at 01:59 PM • permalinkAll pensions, allowances and other Centrelink payments were indexed under the Howard Govt. Not bad, for an evil, poor-hating regime.
The Hawke/Keating Govt. never had the guts to automatically raise Social Security payments.
How will it feel when you turn to your children and say, “I believed him”?
My kids will never hear that. Although we’re a Liberal voting family, I’ll call “Bullshit!”, when I hear Howard, Costello, or whomever spouting it. These days, however, I tend to be calling “Bullshit!” whenever Rudd et al. open their mouths.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 21 at 02:08 PM • permalinkHow will it feel sitting in front of that $5000 plasma TV watching reruns of American reality shows, wearing clothes manufactured in a sweat shop and sitting on a sofa made by Third World slaves?
We’ve been buying imported televisions, clothes and furniture for decades. How will voting Labor make any difference?
I missed Kevin’s promise that the poor won’t be able to buy cheap clothing and furniture anymore, and the rich won’t be able to afford $5000 TVs anymore; can someone provide a link?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 11 21 at 02:12 PM • permalinkI’m probably going to fail Catherine’s intelligence test. She doesn’t actually say who we should all vote for - perhaps she’s arguing for an increased Coalition majority!
Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2007 11 21 at 02:27 PM • permalinkI think Catherine pretty much misses the point. Sort of like this person.
The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and his best friend Corky.
It’s just 12 months since I was last in OZ.
How could things have gone so bad so quickly?
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 11 21 at 02:34 PM • permalinkDon’t despair - I’ll be back soon to flood some more of QLD.
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 11 21 at 02:37 PM • permalinkBut not all of us are working. We are not all white. We do not all speak English. We are not all heterosexual. And we are not all families. But we all deserve a life of dignity, peace and fairness.
Zis is trew. Dats vuy uh huv foonded uh niew partii: Land Rights For Coloured Gay Whales. Equality for all. Now where did I put that damn joint….
Posted by Fast Eddie on 2007 11 21 at 03:36 PM • permalinkWhat is this, International Fisking Day, or something? I’ve never felt the urge to post a Fisking before, but today I read an article on music in the NYT (OK, so it’s my fault, actually) so irretrievably worthless that I couldn’t resist.
Not near to Tim’s polished level of expertise, of course.
Liberals are blind to their own contradictions due to the medications they are on to treat their cognitive dissonance, I’ve concluded.
Superb fisk, Tim.
I wish I could find this tit, tape her mouth shut, and force her to read it. And then leave the tape on her mouth, and maybe do something to her hands so she couldn’t type any more columns. Or remove the tape.
Posted by Mambo Bananapatch on 2007 11 21 at 03:47 PM • permalinkI wish I could vote for Howard twice….
Posted by Quentin George on 2007 11 21 at 03:55 PM • permalinkI won’t be waiting for Saturday to vote Liberal, I voted yesterday and beat the rush.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 11 21 at 04:20 PM • permalinkMeanwhile, guess who the first winners under a Rudd government will be?
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22801440-601,00.html
Posted by Young and Free on 2007 11 21 at 04:27 PM • permalinkSurfmaster, were I in your shoes (or voting booth), I would be afraid that the vote counters might examine my ballot and discard it if I hadn’t voted “correctly” (i.e. Left). Besides all that “hanging chad” nonsense in the 2000 election, we’ve had several scandals here in the U.S. involving bags of absentee ballots discovered, uncounted, after elections, having been “vetted” that way by poll workers. I sincerely hope that your elections are better run than ours! :-P
Posted by Mary in LA on 2007 11 21 at 04:50 PM • permalinkCatherine really pushes the edge of leftist lunacy into new regions. Margo must be fuming.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 21 at 04:53 PM • permalinkSo how did the article go after this bit “Look back at the past 11 years and imagine the next decade as more of the same.”, I couldn’t read any further as I got all misty eyed and was too busy applauding.
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2007 11 21 at 04:53 PM • permalinkShe’s been drinking bong water again. She should stick to kool-aid.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 11 21 at 05:17 PM • permalinkMon Dieu. Aside from the awful writing, what is the point of keeping someone like Deveney on a payroll if all you’re going to get is partisan gushing, rubbish that even an ALP staffer would be too embarassed to put out.
Even the left’s prime media hate figures Albrechtsen, Bolt, Akerman, Pearson etc at least try to do some analysis and make some useful points on the political scene.
If Labor wins, we will have to scrutinise the media’s efforts to “keep the bastards honest”. I am not optimistic.
Rudd has gone for a sort of “consensus” feeling in the last day or so. Hawke did that well, but it started to fade with the Economic Summit, where he dumped Keating’s version of the GST, much to Keating’s (and one must assume Treasury’s) disgust.
By the late 80’s and on into the early 90s we were made to feel strange that we didn’t really like the governance or the cultural credos being followed. The aboriginal rights agenda was in full flight. Positive Discrimination in the workplace for indigenes, Affirmative Action, Quotas for Women in the ALP! Multiculturalism. Secret Treaties with Soeharto. Budgets “balanced” by economic rabbits from the hat, such as sale of Qantas. There was no support from the media for a change. There were whispers that “people really don’t like Keating”. Deveny loves him - the “old flame”. Then the silenced voters spoke in 1996.
Howard got little if any assistance from concerned journos (competent or incompetent) back then. In this election period, in fact for years now, the media have been so demonstrably partisan (for the most part) that a change of government will be achieved with their connivance.( Even some of the more conservative hue have weakened. Taking out some insurance?)
And the change, if it happens, will be for reasons no better than those expressed by Deveny. Except for the underlying urgency to preserve the ALP/Union power axis. Rudd has been asked thrice and denied thrice that the ALP is a party of the left. With Gillard as his deputy, and a front bench full of ex-union heavies. It is theatre of the absurd, and the lack of proper examination of the realpolitik is an indictment of our commentators.Lovely bit of irony there by Deveny. This bit especially:
“At my grade 6 graduation, I stood side by side with Greeks, Yugoslavs, Macedonians, Poles, Italians and Maltese and we sang: “I’m as Greek as a Souvlaki, I’m as Irish as a stew, I’m as Italian as spaghetti, I’m as Danish as a blue, I’m as German as a dumpling, Middle Eastern as a lamb. I’m an Aussie, yes I’m an Aussie, yes I am.”
No doubt she would be aware that the song was banned as racist and the ad it featured on ripped off air by the politically correct left wing loonies who, come Saturday, will be back in the box seat telling us what’s best for us.
Oh they joy.
Or it might just be Al Gore wearing a tropical suit, sipping a piña colada out by the pool.
As to the zany Ms. Deveny, I agree with Francis H and others who have pointed out that the execrable quality of her writing trumps everything, even her politics.
Quick, somebody, send the woman a case of Prozac. Or perhaps a cyanide pill. Whatever. Something, anything, to put us out of her misery. Good night nurse. Hey, Catherine, if you make through the election without your head exploding (and I sincerely hope you don’t), do yourself (and the rest of us) a favor by signing up here.
That this screed could have been written (and probably will be) by any number of our lefty journos is somehow comforting.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 11 21 at 05:43 PM • permalink#66 For me it’s Mambo No. 5.
Forgot the guy’s name, but the song brings back memories of Indonesia in 1999/2000.
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 11 21 at 05:53 PM • permalinkahaha pencil up her nose, you’ve got to love the visual.
Posted by Admonkeystrator on 2007 11 21 at 05:56 PM • permalink#70 Rebecca,
I actually quite like the song. Just takes a while for it to get out of my head.
Here’s a
better looking version of the song. For the boys, of course. :)
#69 Blogstrop
No finer example of your point than Kerry O’Brienand his efforts over the last two nights.
Interview with Howard on Tues night was the standard studio “me and you in the cage” full bore interview, with copious notes and prepared questions on O’Brien’s desk.
Compare and contrast Red Kezza’s “fireside chat” with Rudd. Nice soft non studio, aboriginal dot painting in background and at one point, Kevvie chuckles and leans over as if to pat the Red Terror on the knee.
I am not wise in such matters as journalisitc effics and stuff, but I do know a lot about embarrassment.
Kerry O’Brien is no longer annoying, sychophantic or skewed.
He’s embarrassing, just plain embarrassing.
Too the majority of us it won’t make any difference whether Labor or Liberal get in. But if the Liberals get up we will have the wonderful delight of watching the lefties implode or explode over the days and months post-election. Once again ordinary Australians will be called dumb, stupid, self-centred, racist, homophobic, &c., by disappointed, near-suicidal latte sippers in Carlton and Fitzroy (and interstate equivalents).
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 11 21 at 06:22 PM • permalink#77 #80
thanx Pog,I’ve saved that
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 11 21 at 06:32 PM • permalink#85 walter
I look forward to a repeat of three small fortunes that befell me last election night.
Kerry O’Brien at some stage whining “this can’t be happening”;
the election party next door breaking up prematurely;
the deep clunking noise that undrunk bottles of beer make as the party guests sneak away quitely, dejected, shattered and contemplating life with the same outlook as All Black supporters.Something similar to Deveny’s world view is being taught at public schools all over Australia by PC teachers. Graham Richardson’s memoirs revealed that the teachers were always his first port of call when working in unfamiliar electorates. All the promised computers and handouts cannot change that aspect of our public education system - the culture wars are far from won.
Maybe Deveny and Alan Ramsey can compare notes next Monday after Howard scrapes home.
Demented dessicated old coconut Alan Ramsey had this to say two days after Howard’s comprehensive win in 2004.
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How on earth could we have put this scheming, mendacious little man and his miserable claque back in office for another three years? Worse, how could we have brought them to the very brink of absolute control of the nation’s entire parliamentary process and authority?Very easily, as things turned out, to the cost of the rest of us and our national self-respect.
Still, Latham’s time will come. Believe it.
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Fantacising isn’t just the preserve of young members of the Melbourne Stasi - even grizzled head cases like old Al still enjoy it!Shakespeare must have known an earlier version of Catherine Deveny but he also knew what to write of her almost constant drivel:
A tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth, 5. 5and
‘Tis such fools as you
That makes the world full of ill-favor’d children.
As You Like It, 3. 5and
Foul and ugly mists of vapours.
Henry IV Part 1, 1. 2and
Go thou and fill another room in hell.
Richard II, 5. 5and
How now, you secret, black, and midnight hag(s)!
Macbeth, 4. 1In the end, even he tired of her:
Hang [her] with [her] pen and [her] ink-horn about [her] neck.
Henry VI Part 2, 4. 2THe one thing that has declined under Howard is the mental health of the left. Catherine can be seen later today taking the the train home, rolling her poo into tiny balls and stcking them in her ears.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 21 at 07:26 PM • permalinkAsh
Years of hilarity. Why here we are, 2 days before the tally up and this demented bush pig Deveney is happily bowling slow, short pitched rubbish down the leg side, which we and those of our ilk gratefully (but not always gracefully) lift over the square leg fence to the delight of the kiddies in the front rows.Really, where would we be without them?
69 - excellent points made, blogstrop.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 21 at 07:38 PM • permalinkHas the Age always allowed dumb schoolkids onto the opinion page?
Posted by Tony.T.Teacher on 2007 11 21 at 07:45 PM • permalinkJesus H. Christ! Tim, how did you get through all that babble without barfing?
What a sanctimonious, smug, self-righteous cretin this woman is!
I’ll just bet she sung that song at her grade 6 graduation! If she did, the line including people from the Middle-East was only tacked on recently, probably only since, say, September 2001, because only then were these people noticed by the shallow set. Funny, no mention of Indigenous Australians in that PC little song of hers. Oh, I forgot, Middle-Eastern is the new black!People like Deveny are perpetually outraged. It’s their stock-in-trade. It won’t be long before Kevin has her and her ilk in the throws of some moral outcry. Just wait and see.
“I don’t have to imagine how it feels to be an outsider. I know. I know how it feels to be a child and have our home sold from under us.”
In my families case it was Keatings efforts in the recession we had to have.
“How will it feel knowing we have turned our back on people who need us most: the poor, the broken, the scared, the sick, the elderly and the vulnerable?”As a case in point it might be brought up that the fairly effective system of asylums for the mentally ill was removed by successive STATE governments.
This has been replaced by “care in the community” a popular lefty mantra which basically means left on your own till you top yourself, go to jail, or die of some 3rd wold disease under a bridge somewhere.
Can someone please explain the difference between STATE and FEDERAL responsibilities to Cath??Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 21 at 07:55 PM • permalinkDeveny always writes about non-Anglo-Saxons in such a condescending way. The silly bitch can’t see that treating minorities as cute little fashion accessories is just as awful as screaming racial abuse at them.
Treat minorities as you treat everyone else, Catherine. Maybe then these Greeks, Yugoslavs, Macedonians, Poles, Italians and Maltese you meet won’t think of you as a racist, just the appalling snob that you are.
#99 IT
Catherine can be seen later today taking the the train home, rolling her poo into tiny balls and stcking them in her ears.
That’ll provide hours of enjoyment for Rudd.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 11 21 at 08:13 PM • permalinkAt comment #113, the chances of my wit and wisdom being read is remote but here goes:
This election is an intelligence test.
Why is it that lefties think themselves intellectually superior?
All evidence points to the mediocrity of group-think.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 21 at 08:19 PM • permalink#85, “Too the majority of us it won’t make any difference whether Labor or Liberal get in”.
Your’re right, but I’m very confident that WA wont carry for Labor, and placed $300 on at Centrebet for the Coalition at $4.10 to this effect. More than the possible payout, it is the election night coverage on the ABC if Howard gets up that has me counting sleeps till Saturday like a kid waiting for Christmas.At my grade 6 graduation, I stood side by side with Greeks, Yugoslavs, Macedonians, Poles, Italians and Maltese and we sang
No wonder she’s a racist: she’s spent her entire life surrounded by other Euro-Australians.
Posted by blandwagon on 2007 11 21 at 09:02 PM • permalink#80, Pogria - Where did you get that video of Paco?
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 11 21 at 09:57 PM • permalinkAt my grade 6 graduation, I stood side by side with Greeks, Yugoslavs, Macedonians, Poles, Italians and Maltese
A good sub-editor would have changed that to wogs or reffo’s to save space.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 21 at 11:03 PM • permalink#121 Ubique- On the home page click the large “Elections” box, it will bring up a page with a line for Labor and the Coalition, currently at $1.22 and $4.35 respectively. Ring them up, open an account over the phone and bpay it, it will take 24 hours. Come Saturday night I may end up very pissed off as compared to just pissed off but I reckon it’s worth a punt at those odds.
#26, you remind me here of an interesting thing. Most business/marketing programs/videos I have seen invariably sound as if they have lifted their soundtracks from the dorkiest of porn movies.
Anyone care to venture a guess as to why this would be? Are they all trying to save the pennies on music?Posted by carpefraise on 2007 11 22 at 12:15 AM • permalink#40, she probably had to eat her words at some point in her life and has yet to recover.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 11 22 at 12:18 AM • permalinkGoing by her name, is she Hungarian as a goulash?
Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2007 11 22 at 12:36 AM • permalinkNicely fisked. To read it unadultered in its entirety would be to drown in sanctimonious slough of dripping despond; that is something I wouldn’t want to do more than once in a day, and my fill came earlier from the voluntarily sterilized Gaia groupies:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=495495&in_page_id=1879
Curses be on those selfish enough to preserve their genetic line at the expense of the planet.
BTW, interesting about the odds. I might have a bit of a punt.
Posted by Simon Darkshade on 2007 11 22 at 02:31 AM • permalinkThe last time mum owned a house was during Keating’s recession we had to have. She had to sell it as the mortgage crippled her, and has never come close to owning again. I remember it all too well Ms Deveney, and as one from an immigrant family, I assure you, we all know who not to vote for.
Take your only lefties have a heart bullshit and fuck off back to your latte art bitch circle you sanctimonious arrogant smug tool.
#120 steve,
ssshhhhhh!!!
Mrs Paco doesn’t know about Mr Paco’s second job.
I promised him I wouldn’t tell anyone after I made him give me back the five dollars I slipped into his G-string when he was on stage.
That was before I realised who it was in the Indian outfit during The Village People nostalgia night at the RSL.
I didn’t promise I wouldn’t “show” anyone else. ;)
She’s a laugh, I mean she’s a racist and against people in the third world from making money…
Posted by Old school on 2007 11 23 at 02:40 AM • permalink
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I’ll have whatever it is she is drinking, and one for my friend too please.