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For one final time, John Howard disappoints feminist author Monica Dux:
The real moment of truth was always going to be Howard’s concession speech. There was a buzz among my friends: would the PM’s lip quiver? Would he stumble over his words, shed a few tears?
We were disappointed.
Nice people. Being lefties, and therefore leader-fixated, Monica and her mates then found themselves annoyed by Kevni’s underwhelming acceptance speech:
When it was Rudd’s turn, I noticed something more surprising. Even in my staunchly Labor living room, guests started analysing his slick performance. The hand gestures were declared forced, the smile suspicious ...
... the ear canals freshly harvested. David Marr didn’t like it much, either:
Kevin killed the party. Before his victory speech disappears into history, it has to be said the nation’s new leader turned a wild celebration into another night on the stump ... Australia is now on notice that the Rudd we got on Saturday night is the Rudd we will hear for the next three years.
And this from people who voted for him. Even down in the left’s lowest, least-read depths, there’s nothing but carping at Kevin:
After last night’s acceptance speech, it’s hard to get too inspired by our “dentist” leader.
UPDATE. More disappointment for the Left:
Frankly, I was disappointed that Kevin didn’t rub [Howard’s] nose in it on election night.
That’s from Jill Singer, the fainting goat of Melbourne journalism.
Why do lefties invest so much emotion into the electoral process?
I don’t know much about Australian politics, other than that Howard was a true friend of the US, but I know here in the US it’s crazy.
Take BDS for example. Sure, I didn’t care for Clinton and despise his wife but I won’t slit my throat if she happens to get elected. I’ll just hunker down and wait for the next election.
What goes around, comes around, and I don’t understand people who give it so much control over their mental processes.
What did I tell you? I did expect them to wait a few more hours before tearing him down, though.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 11 26 at 07:05 PM • permalinkBut, but, but - I was told that if I voted for Rudd the sky would rain chocolate and the clouds would be marshmallows.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 11 26 at 07:24 PM • permalink#7 He wasn’t Wayne Goss’ Chief of Staff for nothing.
It is going to be interesting, vicious and bloody.
#4 Quite so—Nick
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 11 26 at 07:27 PM • permalinkAnd so the self-immolation begins…
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 26 at 07:32 PM • permalinkIn the good old days, when someone was a permanent grump, you avoided them. When someone could find fault with everything, you declared them a jerk and avoided them. Today, they broadcast it and join a leftist movement. Nothing is ever good enough. Now the moaning begins about the Labour party from the same mob who voted against the Libs. Ho Hum.
Posted by Fast Eddie on 2007 11 26 at 07:37 PM • permalinkwell Joe Hockey was on the verge, bless him…
what I noticed about Rudd’s speech were his hand gestures - he started with a downward motion, forcing the palms of both his hands down when he was trying to quell the crowd’s applause and noise so that he could speak - what was worrying was that he kept on with that gesture after they were quiet - it came across as control-freak body language - maybe he’s an admirer of the more authoritarian style of leadership in China with which he is so familiar
A moonbat friend of mine was telling me about her Howard-hater election night party, complete with Howard-pinata; she reported exactly the same thing. Halfway through Rudd’s acceptance speech, the temperature in the room cooled perceptibly, and the moonbats started picking holes in Rudd. Post coitum animal triste, perhaps.
Nobody likes Rudd, and his election was largely fuelled by Howard-hatred. When that finally dissipates - and the last fumes are already clearing - what then?
#12 damn straight.
Terry McRann paid tribute (sort of) to Howard in todays “Herald Sun” [only readable rag in the country now - wont buy the Oz again]. But he basicaly said that for all his remarkable acheivements, Howard wont leave a legacy. Utter crap - Howard is the benchmark by which every Oz leader for the next couple of decades will be measure.
How do you think Kevni ‘s gonna measure up?These people have had the stupidity to turn an election into Australian Idol and now they are complaining that they ended up with a bloke with no substance, only image. Well Derrrr! To anyone with the slightest brain power, Kevin is as see through as a brown paper bag full of freshly fried chicko rolls.
I think I’m actually going to enjoy carping from the sidelines and watching the wingnuts tear themselves to pieces.
Mystifies me how John Howard wins by a landslide in 2004, does roughly everything he said he’d do, only to have the tide turn completely against him 3 years later. Judging from the mediocre performance of environmental parties this time around, it doesn’t look like the Climate Change issue did him. Iraq was there before 2004. If you didn’t want IR changes, you should have voted Labor 3 years ago. Have we reached the stage where a 1.5% interest hike gets you voted out? Was it just Latham last time? Too many tax cuts? Wages go up too much? Enlighten me, please.
It is all champagne and smiles now but the truth will out.
It has been more than obvious to me that Kevin is not the man he makes out to be. Those plastic smiles, faked laughs and generally plasticness he has been going around with have the air of forced gesturesAs the pressure grows and the troubles pile up we shall see the real leader emerge. It wont be pretty - probably just like that old show “V” when they tore the mask of the leader revealing the reptillian beneath.
#9 I agree with you Andrea.
I expect to see the left section start their demands for this and that lefty thing… and Ruddles will have to take them out and bash them, or be a one-term wonder, even a shortened term if some of the lefty members vote with the opposition on something.
Expect to see a bag of dollars handed out to all and sundry lefty groups and “artistes” to buy them off.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 26 at 07:54 PM • permalinkMaybe we can try and get Dux a posting at Emory University?
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 11 26 at 07:54 PM • permalink#20, 28. Too true. Here’s just one of the curve-balls.
#21 Dminor, it’s just that he’d been there too long, that’s all. Maybe the work rules changes had something to do with itm, bbut I think many were in favour of them. Oh, yes, and a left-wing media.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 26 at 08:02 PM • permalinkWhen people devote years to building up hatred and then see the hated one destroyed, they feel an emotional void. The hatred that has given meaning to their lives must be maintained, even at the cost of turning against their heroes.
Posted by Angela Bell on 2007 11 26 at 08:11 PM • permalink#32 Well said Angela.
Hatred (of people) is an awful, self-destructive emotion which serves no useful purpose and ends up harming the hater.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 11 26 at 08:15 PM • permalinkThis from DMinor’s link at #29, quote by Lowitja (formerly Lois) O’Donoghue, (formerly on the ATSIC gravy train) about the alleged “stolen generation”:
“She says the word “sorry” would end the hurt felt by members of the Stolen Generations and says the incoming Federal Government should set up a special compensation fund similar to the one in Tasmania.”
Hehehe.
Follow the money.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 11 26 at 08:19 PM • permalinkWhen it was Rudd’s turn, I noticed something more surprising. Even in my staunchly Labor living room, guests started analysing his slick performance. The hand gestures were declared forced, the smile suspicious ...
Who’s surprised? Ever since the Rudder became Labor leader, his chief rhetorical tactic has been the cliche as a means of avoiding debate.
Also, what Gibbo said.
#30.
I’m still unsure about IR.I feel it was
a huge factor in the defeat.Did everybody vote thinking they would
be better off?
More job security?I know there are some shifty employers,
but didn’t anyone consider it may cause
employers to clam up leading to higher
unemployment when the roll back starts?That’s not Liberal scare mongering and
I know it leads to bugger all choice,but
I think many battlers may be worse off
when it comes to the crunch.No job security vs no job.
#40 yeah, but the joke’s on the Australian people, ‘cause this was the plan all along.
Kev’s not factionally aligned, he’s got no mates in Parliament and he’s not left enough for too many in the ALP. he’s a sitting duck unless he can find some supporters, and quick (not easy when you’re a prissy prick who’s already made a bunch of enemies). think of the nerdy child molester who’s just landed in maximum security. he’s got plenty of smokes, but that’s about it.
question is, who’s gonna shiv ‘im, the left or the right?Our (or rather, your) “dentist” leader, eh?
Does he really look like a dentist? My old dentist looked like Albert Anastasia (“Open-a you mouth, or I shoot all-a you teeth out!”).
Actually, Rudd is sort of the fellow I had in mind when I wrote of the lovely Sheila’s dentist (the one who kept “accidentally” dropping instruments in her lap, and whose toupé once fell on her face, creating the sensation of being smothered with a dead cat). How many pairs of latex gloves would you insist that Kev wear before letting him put his fingers in your mouth?
#41 dver, lately if you visit the pub in our little town on a Friday night (and a lot of other times through the week) you will see a hell of a lot of people who have had bugger-all meaningful work during the 20 odd years I have lived here. Through the business I had I know the circumstances of many of them.
They now look not only happy but prosperous in an ‘I can look after myself’ way. Not ‘my dole cheque just arrived’ or ‘I just backed the last winner’.
They have jobs and some pride.
The ones I’m talking about will be the first ones back on the rock and roll, or on useless job creation schemes. They are small business non-union employees. Howard understood that small business is the backbone of the economy. If Rudd can’t or won’t stand up to the unions these people will suffer now.When people devote years to building up hatred and then see the hated one destroyed, they feel an emotional void. The hatred that has given meaning to their lives must be maintained, even at the cost of turning against their heroes.
Well said, Angela! Hatred is addictive, and the lefties can’t kick the habit.
Makes me wonder about our own lefties after Bush leaves office in January 2009. Might be the Year Of the Long Knives…..
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 11 26 at 09:00 PM • permalinkWhat happened to Newhouse?
Got his NSW Labor job back again?Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 11 26 at 09:11 PM • permalinkAlso where are Walter Secord and David Epstein?
Posted by stackja1945 on 2007 11 26 at 09:14 PM • permalinkWhen people devote years to building up hatred and then see the hated one destroyed, they feel an emotional void. The hatred that has given meaning to their lives must be maintained, even at the cost of turning against their heroes.
Well said, Angela! Hatred is addictive, and the lefties can’t kick the habit.
Makes me wonder about our own lefties after Bush leaves office in January 2009. Might be the Year Of the Long Knives…..
I sometimes think we are already seeing that. Since the Dims took over control of Congress their poll numbers have dropped through the floor. Granted it’s because they’re too stupid to live but it’s also because (I believe) that there is no way, literally no way, they can pander enough to satisfy the people carrying the most hatred. ie: those on the fringe left.
It’s bad now. It’s only going to get worse once Bush is out of office. It won’t matter who replaces him, either. If it’s a Republican they will transfer their hate to him. If it’s a Dim, they will celebrate for a while but will then shift to the mode they are already engaged in with congress.
It worries me.
41, there’s no such thing as a “battler”. There’s just people trying to do better. The freer people are to hire and fire and be hired and fired according to their own definition of happiness, the faster they become better off. Workchoices was headed that way. Now we will embrace the institutionalised victimhood of unions and the
extortionateregulated labour market.Posted by ooh honey honey on 2007 11 26 at 09:22 PM • permalinkThe overwhelming hatred left are fulminating now is really worth of psychological study.
I might be young or I don’t get out that much but I’ve never encountered so much blind rage and venom as I see in a lefist.
And even when they get an outlet for their rage their behaviour isn’t any better.
I much prefer the sang froid the right side of politics seems to exhibit.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 11 26 at 09:23 PM • permalinkThis is simple to suss out: Liberals are deeply unhappy people for the most part, drinking deeply from the wellspring of covetousness, jealousy, and envy. So, they won’t be happy with any leader, because it’s simply not possible for them to be genuinely happy and satisfied.
Only a megalomaniacal leader with deep charisma like a Bill Clinton can pacify most, but not all of them, and Rudd is no Clinton. I’d expect him to have a lot of criticism coming at him from his own side.
#21-
Was it just Latham last time? Too many tax cuts? Wages go up too much? Enlighten me, please.
In a democracy, people eventually get bored with the same leader. Here in the States, it seems to set in about halfway through a second term (i.e., after six years). That’s why I wouldn’t be opposed to a single six-year term for President.
Also, most people have a childish belief that everything should be perfect. Australia may learn that perfect is the enemy of good.
This clamouring of the Left for some ‘excitement’ is really no surprise to me at all, or to many others on this website I suspect.
We’re about to watch Dudd attempt a giant balancing act and keep all of the disparate forces within his party and their cheersquads in the news media happy. It is obviously off to a predictable start.
Any sign of bad polls for our earwax eatin’ friend (which I’m not predicting any time soon) and he’s got to start feeling pretty nervous…
Leftists are hateful because they wallow in ugliness. Sloppy dress, “provocative” art, angry music, etc etc. Then they sneer at the things right-wingers find happiness in - family, tradition, a neat and lovely home, music and art from the height of Western civilization…
They value “authenticity”, which generally translates into a brooding cynicism married with a despairing outlook on everything.
In other words, they’re teenagers.
Ah, the wheels are starting to get a little wobbly. I shall watch the coming wreck with interest.
Its almost worth getting some ‘Don’t blame me, I voted Liberal’ stickers printed up when the inevitable happens - food, petrol, electricity, unemployment, interest rates, taxes et al all beging to rise.
Just how irrational are the Howard haters?
This selection from phil “5 minutes hate” Addams commenters should answer that question.
“I did not hate Saddam. Nor did I hate Soeharto. Both of these late gents were responsibile for many crimes against their populations. But I did not hate them. That inner feeling that overwhelms at times is reserved for someone special, someone so out-of-the-ordinary, that one wonders from where such hard feelings derive.
Phillip, you have encapsulated all that has warranted my hatred for Howard.
No more to be said. The evil bastard is gone.”..“To my mind the only good things he did were gun control, and, I hate to say it, the gst, which assures a strong revenue flow to government and will mean this time Labor will have the money to implement socially beneficial policy…”
“..In another place and in another time, Howard would be facing an international war crimes tribunal along with Tony Blair, GW Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al….”
“..Howard was the most divisive leader our country ever had and I would prefer to see him rot in prison rather than enjoy a gentle retirement - charge? Attempted theft of Australia’s moral compass.
Let us all hope and pray (or at least hope) that we will become a lot more politically correct in the next few years…”“..I feel like the French after being liberated from the Germsns at the end of WWII…”
“..could not agree more! I have a business that involves agents in the Middle East and yesterday I received emails from several of them, congratulating Australia on getting rid of “the cancer in our society” and “Bush’s puppet”...”
That about as many as I feel like wading through.
The man is a propagandist and an embarassment, congratulations ot the Australian, I will gladly read your on-line version but will not buy you till you finaly get rid of Phill.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 26 at 10:26 PM • permalink#66 - I’ve already trademarked: “Don’t blame me, I’m a West Australian”. The rest of the country can go fuck its hat.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 26 at 10:30 PM • permalinkOT British primary school teacher is spending her second night in a Sudanese prison. She faces a public lashing or up to six months in prison for insulting Islam’s Prophet by letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Mohammed.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 26 at 10:45 PM • permalink#67 “..I feel like the French after being liberated from the Germans at the end of WWII…”
I wondered how long it would take to hear that old leftard favourite.
Why is it always the French, and never the Dutch,the Norwegians or the Greeks etc?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 26 at 10:49 PM • permalinkMaybe it was the alcohol- but I thought Howard gave a great speech, can’t say much about Kevni, there was too much booing and hissing in the crowd I was in to hear the Krudd.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 26 at 10:52 PM • permalink#67 frollicking,
That is so sad. Nothing will ever make these people happy. Even if they were able to make all their wishes and threats come true, they would still be looking for someone to hate. It’s their lifeblood. They need hatred, like we need air to breathe, just to get through the day.
You’re a brave man frollicking. I could not read past the first two lines, let alone stay for the show.
Too depressing. I’m going to bake something. That always makes me feel better.
#50 It worries me. But nothjing to be sur[prised at; aftyer all, the left really does oppose capitalism and liberalism at an ideological level. Only Stalinism will make them happy. But, what worries me is that they will end up with Islamism.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 26 at 11:03 PM • permalink#77 Where did all those extra and wrong characters come from. UFOs infiltrated me keyboard. Grrrr.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 26 at 11:04 PM • permalink‘Gestures Forced’
I thought this would be about the ratifying of Kyoto and the Saying Sorry? Definitely forced gestures - but I think that’s all they might be - gestures.
Rudd Day 1 : Julia praises Howard!
Rudd Day 2 : Claire Martin leaves.
Rudd Day 3 : Mia Handshin loses, Lefties pissed off, as described in thread above.All good so far, fingers crossed…
#63 Ubique Salute!
Wow, thanks for the Peggy Lee. I’ve never heard it like that before. Wonderful presentation. I was moved…to get another scotch.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 26 at 11:18 PM • permalinkI hope Rudd does sign Kyoto. I just hope we take the European approach to it after that and ignore the pointless thing.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 26 at 11:18 PM • permalink#67: “..could not agree more! I have a business that involves agents in the Middle East . . .”
Gun running? Goat chow? White slavery? Oil-for-food rake-offs?
“Let us all hope and pray (or at least hope) that we will become a lot more politically correct in the next few years…”
Yeah, you better deep-six the prayer; God just might not be on your side.
Fabulous sampler, Frollicking; a seasonal gift basket filled with mixed nuts.
Paco’s rule #1: always distrust those who are gratified by the spiteful condescension of foreigners towards one’s own country.
#77 & #79 Excellent points.
I remind myself that the vast majority of folk are sane, reasonable people. We just hear about the ones who make a lot of noise who also, by some strange quirk of fate, happen to be the ones out on the fringe. Fortunately the politicians have to worry about getting reelected and for that they have to pay attention to all those sane, reasonable people in the middle.
I keep telling myself that.
This is typical lefty behavior. They’re all about nit picking and telling everybody what’s wrong, but they haven’t got a single clue as to how to go about fixing things (unless it’s some airy-fairy pie in the sky scheme that would never work in the real world). So when their “side” wins an election, they don’t know what to do except keep on carping and complaining. It’s how they get through life.
#83 Infidel
If only Labor would then ignore it, but I doubt that. Not saying they’ll get anywhere near their joke of a target (take your pick which one), but we’ll still have to pay off Russia and the like for carbon credits. Plus the wasted money going towards inefficient renewable energy sources (I think you can count on a few windmill farms), plus the higher power bills and job losses in the coal industry.
But what’s a few dozen billion between friends, huh?
#84: Er, that should read “Paco’s political rule #1”. Not to be confused with Paco’s Absolute Rule #1: never leave a panama hat in a hot garage.
#68: Thanks for that Peggy Lee video, Ubique! Always loved her. Here’s Peggy singing one for Kevin Rudd (“Why Don’t You Do Right?”)
Slightly OT but I suggest this as the rallying cry of the carbonistas.
I was watching Top of the Pops when he did this number. The Beeb was astonished; apoplectic…they brought in new rules regarding the use of ... Fire
An anti-carbonista is someone who wants to reduce the use of energy, our “carbon footprint”, for purely purile reasons. People who want to produce economical energy and even think that maybe a little more CO2 in the atmosphere would produce a more verdant nature are carbonistas.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 26 at 11:34 PM • permalink#21 DM
IMHO:
The, prolly large yoof, segment of uncommitted voters* was offered some reassurance, if not solutions, on curly issues such as AGW, workchoices, etc.From speaking with Lefties, the Libs’ campaign was ill-managed, for which I blame the management team and consulants - not the sitting pollies - they’re on the inside looking out and have been for 11 years.
The Libs came across as too cold and unreassuring, pointing to past achievements, e.g. they addressed climate change too late in the piece, etc.*IMHO Gibbo is spot on with an ‘Australian Idol’ outlook to voting by yoof, who haven’t known any different than the incumbents and don’t understand the hard realities of a regime change. Traditional polling methods fail to capture this fluid, mobile phone using bunch (case in point: mareeS’s pollster’s calls seeking out her 24 y.o. offspring).
#17
Hopefully, the Leftards got a glimpse of Herr Flick in full swing, with his body language and tone in suppressing the jubilant mass as Der Fuhrer was speaking.#39
$orry for the $tolen generation$ ...Kevni ain’t stupid - per a poster in a previous thread - he knew that $orry was gonna cost us ... so much for the spirituality in the message, hehe ...
#91 Paco, I always thought myself odd for being in love with the Andrew Sisters and Billy Holiday, now I remember another I had forgotten, Peggy Lee. Wow. Some bluesy dame.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 26 at 11:58 PM • permalink#98 Carboniferous? Isn’t that like being bi-sexual - you want the carbon but can’t take the heat ... or is that deciduous, or maybe evergreen. Oh, philosophy is sooo difficult.
Sorry. See reference to scotch in an earlier post.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 11 27 at 12:04 AM • permalink“Let us all hope and pray (or at least hope) that we will become a lot more politically correct in the next few years…”
Priceless. At long last, an honest Lefty. Though I suppose the imbecile doesn’t realize the etymological roots of “politically correct.”
He’d probably agree that consciousness-raising “re-education camps” would be a great idea, too.
#105 Wimpy: Dude! The Andrews Sisters are solid, Jackson. You squares and longhairs can bow out while me and Wimpy dig Bounce Me, Brother, With a Solid Four.
Nic
Yup saw that one, loved the bit about “not normaly done till AFTER cost analisis’ are completed”
Gonna costa lotta moolah.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 27 at 01:25 AM • permalinkEgg at #97 has nailed it:
”$orry” - Priceless!!
I will be stealing that for future correspondence, methinks.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 11 27 at 01:30 AM • permalink#121, off the press: Japan is buying carbon credits from Hungary.
Hope Australia will find an even cheaper country, perhaps Albania or South Korea.
What a sordid business this Kyoto scam is.Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2007 11 27 at 01:35 AM • permalinkI just copied this off the Bulldogs Debate Page:
“The Labor Party have announced they are going to change the emblem from an Emu and a Roo to a condom. It reflects their stance more accurately. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks and gives you a sense of security while you are actually being pharked”.
Rudd’s victory speech was dull.
He needs a speechwriter.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 11 27 at 01:54 AM • permalink#124
What a sordid business this Kyoto scam is.Counterpoint has a transcript of last week’s interview with Robert Shapiro, who advocates a carbon tax scheme in preference to the problems of corruption associated with an emissions trading scheme:
Carbon taxWhat is the best way to reduce the world’s carbon emissions and how does a carbon tax compare with an emissions trading system? Last week, the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia, released a report called Climate Change: getting it right. One of its contributors, Robert Shapiro, believes a carbon tax is the preferred option.
Rudd’s victory speech was awful but exactly the same as all his speeches in the campaign. The contrived smiles and out-of-sync hand movements were apparent from day one. But now the left is actually looking without their hatred of Howard to blind them. What they are seeing is Kev-o-matic, Australia’s first manufactured prime minister. Don’t worry, Labor will replace him with a real human before long.
#135 Mucking around with my young labourer this afternoon about the election,Giving shit back and forth,He proudly told me he voted Kevosev,I said “well you will be first to go”.He laughed and said “what do you mean”. i said “Well when the shit hits the fan and this company sets itself up for a Labor govenment they will cut back on staff, Im a multi skilled union hating tradesman,your a labourer,who do you think they will sack”....Not much laughing after that.
# 66 - Its almost worth getting some ‘Don’t blame me, I voted Liberal’ stickers printed up
I had one of those on my car after Whitlam got up.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 11 27 at 03:19 AM • permalink#142 Thanks Pogria. I was finally able to register after reading this great blog for the past few years. I always get a laugh from the comments and now I can add my bit.
#5 Did anyone hear Deputy Dawg on ABC Radio yesterday. She seems to have lost some of that Kath and Kimness. May not be good as a drill anymore although I find her painful.
AAP is talking up Rudd to the point where they are attributing international reports to him that 2500 other people wrote:
Rudd released the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in February, which proved a watershed for the issue of global warming.
Is there nothing this man hasn’t done?
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 11 27 at 03:56 AM • permalink#144
Hear! Hear!Re update:
Frankly, I was disappointed that Kevin didn’t rub [Howard’s] nose in it on election night.Former senior Auntie journo exhibits much vaunted balance <insert Habib simile here>.
‘Slinger - we’ll be able to rub your former colleague Max Auto-McCue’s nose in it when Kevni’s Depends spring a leak at the next poll, m’kay?
#145 - Hosting Media Watch would be a purely ceremonial role now that they’re in power in every state and Federally.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 27 at 04:02 AM • permalinkGee fancy BOTH of these states deciding to make this decision a few days after the election.
If I were a heartless cynic Id think its almost like they were waiting for the election to be over or something.
Environmental groups slam lifting of GM ban
For a change the burning sensation in Bob Browns colon isnt a leather clad lad.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 27 at 04:06 AM • permalinkThis honeymoon period for Rudd is a sort of like the calm before the storm.
Does anyone remember that scene from an episode of The Simpsons about the return of prohibition to Springfield, where Maude Flanders and Helen Lovejoy heading a kind of temperance league, catch Mayor Quimby in a compromising situation and Helen Lovejoy draws a really long breath as she’s about to scream PERVERT!? Well, that’s what it’s like now for Rudd. You can almost hear the collective intake of breath by all the usual suspects, and it’s only a matter of time, and not very much time, before David Marr or one of his girlfriends start shrieking in OUTRAGE!#154 - But appreantly he’s teaching the internet’s inventor to say g’day, which should be interesting considering Kev had never used that word until he found out it played well with working families.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 11 27 at 04:24 AM • permalinkdarrinhV2
I like the way the only part of the poster in the background of that tool talking says “defeat”.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 27 at 04:33 AM • permalinkGreat find, darrinhV2. Seems tea cosies are in fashion in socialist circles.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 11 27 at 04:45 AM • permalinkInteresting commentary, folks.
If, in the very hour of their triumph, the neocommies are already starting nitpick at the perfect man, their ultimate hero the Howard slayer… then Julia Gillard is already sniggering quietly in the corner as she sharpens the poniard with her factional mates.
So someone must be to blame for their utopia not appearing (I mean, it has been THREE DAYS now!). Albrechtson has not been burned as a witch, Blair has not been publicly impaled, and all conservatives have not been sent to re-education camps.
And when the economic impacts start to bite in a year or two, things will get hugely interesting.
Meanwhile, WE get to point and laugh, as well as ask serious questions. When the intervention in Aboriginal communities is wound back, for example, and children start to die, again, while fat well connected Aboriginal “leaders” stuff public money into their bank accounts, again, we need to point their responsibility out.
For the MSM won’t.
MarkL
CanberraJill’s the fainting goat, but who’s the spitty kitty?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 27 at 05:22 AM • permalinkHillyminx has some corrupt bold tag exposed in their name. That’s twice following a Hillyminx post the bold tag has been left to run wild. I suggest a revision of their registration details re name is in order.
Rudd is a living breathing textbook. Ever got excited opening a textbook? He even looks like one!
Hillyminx… the Mighty Mistress Andrea just hates it when people blow the VRWC boldening budget like this.
As a third time offender, the punishment is usually bastinado (using red hot barbed wire) down here in the dank dungeons of VRWC HQ.
Hey look, shift change! Cool. I gotta go and get the armchair and beer so I can ease back and watch the fun. Oh, Hillyminx, come heerreeeeee…...
MarkL
Minionmeister to the VRWCJust watch the two sweethearts, O’Brien and Rudd on the 7.30 Report. Lovely little chat - you settlin’ in OK, Mr Rudd? Yes thank you, Kerry. Off to the schools now, huh, get them some computers? Yes, Yes.
But my favourite bit - has Treasury uncovered billions of dollars of hidden debt and expenditure you didn’t plan on having to deal with?
Of course not, idiot. That’s what happens when Labor changes over to Liberal.
#131
From the transcript:
Michael Duffy: And in fact there’s a potential for cheating and for rorting such a system at the international level.
Robert Shapiro: There’s enormous potential for cheating, and in particular by corrupt autocratic governments. The notion that, look, it’s hard enough in a democratic and transparent system to not have permits be distributed or taxes imposed without special preferences for powerful industries. In Germany, for example, recently the German government exempted coal production from the European trading system. Well, that’s a rather large greenhouse gas producer that they…well, it was political pressure. Imagine what Vladimir Putin would do with this. Imagine what the Chinese government would do with this. Imagine what Sudan and Iran would do with this.
If a developing country was able to overstate its initial emissions and consequently show great progress, they could then have permits to sell to everyone else, and it becomes a source of hard currency. Under Kyoto, if everyone had participated in Kyoto as written, because of the 1990 base year that created a windfall for Russia, Russia could have been expected to earn $40 billion a year in hard currency selling excess permits. I really don’t think that the home owners and the drivers in Australia and the US should be helping to finance the despotic regime of Vladimir Putin.#160- Unfortunately they’re in vogue with those who ahould know better- there’s a sizeable number of people who’ve walked the planet for half a millenium who think a Peruvian ear-warmer is the chapeau du jour- never having to face reality and a profession that actually produces wealth, they shun the humble homburg for a headbound affectation that makes them look like part of Hillary’s first expedition, perhaps to show how in touch they are with high altitude nature.
To any sensible person they look like twats, who no doubt ride bicycles rather than take use of the remarkable invention of Mr Gottlieb Daimler and who consume porude that costs more to produce than the entire intake of the Borgias.
These people should be run over for the sake of the planet.
#181 Dminor.. I loved when Kerry asked about an AWB (arabs with bread) inquiry.
Rudd was all…ummm arr I’ll get advice on that…in other words “we all know there was a cover up but we needed to get our wheat sold,it got me some attention at the time but now that i am in government i am going to need to cover up a hell of a lot more.
What was the government going to say to your farmers…“burn ya crops boys and sell the tractor”.........I know there was a cover up and could not care less.
Last gasp- just bought a couple of Harley Davidsons before the dollar goes tits up.
At least if it fucks up in transit, the freight’s prepaid. Sell one if there’s any bikes that haven’t been rounded up and killed/recruited to Kev’s new road patrol, the other would be handy to sneak into the lodge, drag him out in his jammies and take him for a drag down Constitution Ave attached to the rear fender with a bungee cord, just to show him what effective opposition is like.
Much as I’m enjoying the sight of the Liberal party tearing itself to pieces and putting forward the candidates best suited to ensure its future failure (elitist multi-millionaire anybody? How about a hard-right bigot?), it doesn’t really compare to the show being put on by various wingnut blogs. Perhaps part of their confusion is their strange idea that Rudd is somehow left-wing. The fact they seem to sincerely believe this is only proof of how isolated and extremist their views really are compared to that of the Australian electorate. For KRudd to win and the Greens to be the country’s third party, well, there must be a hell of a lot of ‘luvvies’ out there…
:-)
Lib Steve Irons hits the front in Swan . “Go you good thing!!”.
Good ol’ West Oz - heading for 11 - 4. Hehehe. We didn’t let you down John.
Suggest all our Timbo cobbers languishing over East emigrate here to Sandgroper land - then we’ll secede and leave the leftoids to starve in the dark. We’ll stage a take-over and buy the rest of the country at the fire sale once Krudd and Co have run it into the ground.
#194- the Greens flatlined at *%, about the normally accepted level of mental diseae in a population.
You tits don’t make up enough people to replace the yahoos who turn up to watch assorted AFL sides train.
You are less influential than the dingbats who wake us from a saurday morning hangover to try to flog us Watchtowers.
Get used tou your insignificance.
And buy a teacosy hat- that’ll show mum and dad.
OT some sad news from Afghanistan.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 11 27 at 07:56 AM • permalinkDown at the waterhole tonight in my (WA) equivalent of Bogan Central, (all blue singlets and paint stained trakky daks) the herd was talking secession and Daylight Saving and tar and feathers for the suits in Parliament and the union heavies lurking behind the earwax munchkin.
Most are on very healthy AWAs and are better off than they have ever been, but they see the shadows on the horizon.
The pub carpark is full of new Holdens and Toyota work utes, and the bar discussions tend to centre on renos and additions to the family home as well as the usual footy, cricket and racing.
They might be Bogans, but they are good hearted people and are not idiots either. I expected a huge swing to the ALP in my marginal electorate, and was pleasantly surprised to see less than 1.5%.The ‘$orry’ (thanks egg_) statement from PM elect Waxman got some traction as well, and not in a good way.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 11 27 at 08:13 AM • permalink#198 - Jeepers, only 30 votes in it. Let’s hope he hangs on.
Talk about a tight seat, though. The margin in 2004 was only 0.8%, too.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 11 27 at 08:20 AM • permalinkMay as well spend all our bolds now. A savage bout of inflation will render them worthless in a few years time.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 11 27 at 08:23 AM • permalinkThe bold jar is still tipped over and leaking for Mac users.
Somebody throw lightning bolts or something. It has to be fixable by someone with a modicum of IT savvy.
I am losing count of the number of buggered up threads caused by commenters not closing tags.
I suppose I could always throw this $3K+ pearl white masterpiece of technology in the bin and buy a $400 Dell laptop.
Yep, that’d work.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 11 27 at 08:23 AM • permalink#67
“..I feel like the French after being liberated from the Germans at the end of WWII…”
What - Phil has been having lots of drunken sex with GI’s? And shaving the heads of collaborators? Indulging in the black market for cigarettes, nylons, chocolate the petrol?
My, my - I never knew Phil was bent that way.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 11 27 at 08:25 AM • permalink#67
“..I feel like the French after being liberated from the Germsns at the end of WWII…”Of course these are the people who would of protested Australia’s involvement in wwII
Posted by Old school on 2007 11 27 at 08:33 AM • permalink#206 upgrade to safari 3.04 and it will be OK.
But don’t turn on parental controls - nasty bug (bad apple).Anyway, nack on topic. While it is true that teh left will soon seek to undermine the KRudd, I should point out that no doubt there will be a period of ruckus in the coalition to shore up the Man of wax.
Even if the libs get their shit together, I am sure the Nats can be relied on to fuck things up. Imagine if you will Barnaby Joyce as leader of the NPA. It would be enough for Bob Katter to rejoin. Imagine the quality policy erupting from that think tank. It would make Pauline look like a mensa.
210 Old school
Of course these are the people who would of protested Australia’s involvement in wwII
Well of course. Unfortunately OZ involvement was foisted upon OZ, by the efficient, crafty, vicious early day ideological twin of the present day Islamist, we would rather die than lose, or die losing, Japanese.
‘They’ just don’t get it, never have, never will.
paco
So, if Hillary wins and establishes a U.S. soviet - and assuming I can escape from the smokers’ concentration camp where undoubtedly I will be interned - West Australia should be my destination?
WE will escape…and it will be The Great Escape II. WE (smokers) will even let you be, Steve McQueen.
Yes indeed, paco. Bring the family!
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 27 at 09:21 AM • permalinkCid, bring your daughter!
(Thinks - Hey! This might be my chance to get Gina over this side of the world too!)
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 27 at 09:22 AM • permalink1000 nay 10 0000x10 apologies for evil boldening- I only wanted to draw Paco’s attention and thank him for the memories.
How does one hightlight one word without ensuring all who follow are emboldened.
Once more abject apologies-OK I’s crawling- please forgive me-in deep depression over weekends news and need support not rejection
Lurv to all fellow conservativesWatched some time ago the serious joust between Kevni and Red Kezza on the 7.30 Report.
Kevni:- Hello Red Kezza.
Kery O’Brien:- May I hoover you on camera, or would that be a bit distasteful to your Missus?
Kevni:- Assume the position, and I hope you’ve taken your teeth out, Theresa doesn’t like high tide marks.
Kerry O’brien:- Mufffflllllomuffflflfl
Kevni:- You’ve managed to sum up our arts, abc and culturre policy in a brief mouthful- our kulcha is in fiern staert!
Swinish my fine friend…
...Daughter, Kim just may be ready for the
moveescape. She mentioned on my birthday, Dad, everything I am now, I owe to you (in a way true, as I did help in bringing her to life BUT she’s a fighter..Tough, smart person in her own right)..BUT in continuing what she mentioned…Dad, that frightens me at times...LOL.OH…Who is Gina?
#217 Hillyminx: I am reliably informed that my name is automatically bolded wherever it appears on the internet :^)
With respect to bold, you should be able to just hit the bold tab (right above the comment box) and then hit it again when you’ve finished bolding what you wanted to bold. That’s the extent of my technical knowledge, unfortunately. One of our resident techie geniuses may have some suggestions.
#21, no, it was boredom. Don’t you understand, they were bored with life. Of course you have to change the leader…
probably other reasons too, but that’s one of them.I actually disliked a few things about the Howard government, but I’ve never expected government to be my source of entertainment, unlike some others.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 11 27 at 09:41 AM • permalinkI know it’s a little presumptious of me, but I think I’ve found Kevni’s band.
#106 maggot magnet.
Seems harsh perhaps but when i think of all the ill-natured gloating and verbal savagery that has occurred and will occur on 3CR and general “lefty” haunts, then yes, that’s how I think of them, notwithstanding their technical status as humans.
Plus, most of them hate Jews *shrug*.
*lapses into moroseness*Posted by carpefraise on 2007 11 27 at 10:02 AM • permalink#211, entropy, Muchos gracias.
I have spent a half hour or so updating Mac Safari as you suggested, came back for a check and find my beloved Blair comments all unboldened, a weeping Hillyminx begging absolution for boldening misdeeds and a rather dodgy sounding “priest” calling himself “El Cid” apparently offering to sell
carbon creditsindulgences in mitigation. At least he didn’t ask for Hillyminx’s address so he could visit and administer ‘absolution’.
All very suspect and weird, but given the fact that the local VRWC are now sated with the blood of the “easy come, easy go” trolls; gazaaaaaaa, agile etc. I will just sit back and watch the fun.Nothing ever posted here will ever be as weird as the images of our fearless leader chewing on his bodily secretions, however.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 11 27 at 10:08 AM • permalink#103, ‘$orry for the $tolen generation$ ...’
I’ll tell you what a stolen generation is. We named our first daughter Monica in the 70s and just before she becomes an adult some bastard American president makes her name a swear word. Where is his apology? Where is the compensation for the damage to her reputation? For a number of years there everyone snickered when they heard her name, including her parents-in-law.
I want compensation. I named my daughter the prettiest name I could find and then someone ruins it. My only compensation is that I am also Sylvia’s mother. OK, Dr Hook, cough up. She was born before your song.
Any word yet on whether the new Great Leader will be replacing the ex-SAS, decorated Vietnam veteran, retired General who is currently Governor General; and with whom. Is St Gough too old now for that greatest f ironies?
Posted by Richard Sharpe on 2007 11 27 at 10:20 AM • permalinkYou raise an excellent question about the next (if any) GG, Richard (#233)
That filthy baby killing bastard General Jefferies must be turfed as quick as possible.Pity that Jim Cairns is a rotting corpse and Saint Gough is a dribbling senile fool.
Maybe Mal Fraser could step into the gap prior to the Declaration of the Oz Republic.So many fuckwits, only one Governor General berth.
Speculation will be rife.Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 11 27 at 10:35 AM • permalink#232 crossie
Sadly I also have a problem with names
I have a cat called Kevin (a girl cat) named after a very special patient of ours Kevin Catt (I’m an RN at a local GP’s surgery)
Now what do I do?
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 11 27 at 10:37 AM • permalinkHere’s one that will probably go straight to the remainder table. Predictions? (a) It won’t be titled My Merry Oldsmobile, and (b) it will be a self-serving, completely unenlightening mish-mash of name dropping, highly-selective evasiveness and stale leftist polemics.
In case the link expires (as Yahoo news stories usually do after a while), Ted Kennedy is planning to write his memoirs.
#238 El Cid (Abby)
Thank you for the advice, and I’ll do my best
Yes Kevin the cat will stay Kevin as she would get confused at dinner time if I called out another name
As for Kevin of Earwax (!) I’m hoping he self destructs
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 11 27 at 10:55 AM • permalink#239 crossie
Yes unless she tries to wander over to the park across our busy street she should survive
I would never wish anything bad to happen to anyone, but I do wish for Kevin PM to live a long and happy life but not in The Lodge in Canberra
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 11 27 at 10:59 AM • permalinkTruth really is stranger than fiction: Al Gore narrowly misses out on his own personal Titanic voyage!
“Remember the cruise ship that sank near Antarctica? It is owned by G.A.P. Adventure —an eco-tourism company whose CEO, Bruce Poon Tip, is a friend of Al Gore.”
Great name. I wonder if Mr. Poon Tip has any other thrilling eco-vacation opportunities available?
Hillyminx,
Firefox is a bit different to IE when formatting. With Firefox, you have to put in the bold tag before the word, so (without spaces) [ b ]Paco, and then close the tag right after the word, eg, Paco[ /b ].
It’s best to use the formatting buttons Andrea has given us, but basically click it before typing the word, and then click it immediately after.
Oh, and Preview. If you’ve done it incorrectly, everything on the Preview page will be bold. If you haven’t, it won’t.
Here endeth my attempt to lengthen your life and decrease the pain that shall be inflicted on you in the VRWC dungeons.
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