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GREENSTERS SHUT OUT
Kevin Rudd stomps Peter Garrett:
The new federal Labor leader, Kevin Rudd, has shut the conservation movement out of a key national environmental debate, the formation of his party’s Tasmanian forests policy ...
Instead, Mr Rudd backed the existing Regional Forests Agreement and Community Forests Agreement, both negotiated between the state and the Federal Government.
Peter Garrett, Labor’s climate change and environment spokesman, refused to comment ...
Well, there’s not much you can say with a foot on your throat.
Was Rudd wearing a jackboot? ‘Cuz, y’know, that’s what all the stylish facist dictators wear when spreading their oppression about. Just ask John Howard or George Bush.
/barking moonbat
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 18 at 10:51 AM • permalinkHmmm.
Well you know what they say:
Better a foot on the throat than a paddle on the ass.
I think.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 12 18 at 12:59 PM • permalink#4 paco,
Middle-class suburban kids do that to their hair here in SoCal, too. It’s a skateboarder “lifestyle” thing, as I understand.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 18 at 02:16 PM • permalinkMaybe the Blue Sky Mining Company will come to Peter’s rescue?
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2006 12 18 at 02:46 PM • permalink#7 paco,
Yeah, I’ve seen it around, too. But why kids would want to look like hedgehogs is beyond me.
I assume that’s why they do it.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 18 at 04:05 PM • permalink#11 murph,
Ooh look out everybody, Tinfoil Hudson attacks!
As a fellow “seppo” I can state with authority: “What a pathetic wanker.”
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 18 at 04:08 PM • permalink#11: Haw! Ignorance on stilts. And a very disappointing effort by Mighty Mike. Apparently, you lot need to get off your duffs and go on over to Iraq (the chickenhawk is another bird of ill omen and amazing persistence). BTW, plenty of bluster as to how silly it is to attack him for being a baptised plastic turkey worshipper, but no acknowledgement that he’s wrong about the plastic turkey (which he sought fit to bring up in the first place, the “blood of 25,000” Americans, notwithstanding. Or is it 2,940? Mike seems confused).
This is his “funniest column ever”? Somehow, I believe it.
#16: Oh, so did I, but not for the reasons Mike would have liked. But even his unwitting humor wasn’t as funny as I had hoped it would be. The money quote? “Blair’s a humorless right-winger . . .” This is obviously a man who, as Emmett Tyrell once said of someone else in a different context, is oblivious to the fact that words have meanings defined by authorities other than himself.
I’m definitely with Moptop on this. Mighty Mike is a titan with clay feet (and he’s clay from the neck up, too, for that matter). We need a better opponent, or at least a more splendid laughingstock. Hudson has been weighed and found wanting, a mere plastic moonbat. Isn’t there a farm club or something, like those used by professional baseball clubs, which can generate a reliable stream of young blood: non-pedestrian lefty loons who aren’t simply content to wallow in stupidity in the comfort of their own homes, or in the smearing newsprint of some alternative rag, but who aspire to imbecility on a grand scale?
Of course, Garrett won’t stand for this.
Here’s a man who understands it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. Right?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 18 at 05:46 PM • permalinkSend Ironed Mike back down to the Minors, eh, paco?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 18 at 06:01 PM • permalinkWay off topic, but look how they treat their Ferraris in South Perth!
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 12 18 at 06:06 PM • permalink#27 Swinish,
The kid in the background with a blue t-shirt seems to be enjoying the show.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 18 at 06:09 PM • permalinkWell surprise, surprise. Mikey didn’t link to this site. Whodda thunk it? Heaven forbid his readership would see what was being said about their fearless “titan.” What gets me is that not only is he a horrible writer (who starts off an essay with “Last Wednesday it was,”??) he accuses our host of being utterly humorless. Hmmmm. Me thinks he doesn’t get our humor. Dumbass.
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 12 18 at 06:11 PM • permalinkQuite so, Spiny. A little Gaia lover in rapture, perhaps.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 12 18 at 06:16 PM • permalinkIsn’t there a farm club or something, like those used by professional baseball clubs, which can generate a reliable stream of young blood: non-pedestrian lefty loons who aren’t simply content to wallow in stupidity in the comfort of their own homes, or in the smearing newsprint of some alternative rag, but who aspire to imbecility on a grand scale?
Every once in a while we here get the feeling that the place needs a new troll, but in the end their cookie-cutter performance always makes us realize that a LOTGY* tends to be a dime a dozen. Much like in baseball.
* Lefty One Trolling Guy.
A little o/t.
The Gutless Green Grime Slime of Niagara Falls.
Hot off the presses.
paco
You know, I bet I can guess just about exactly how Mike’s column is going to run tomorrow:
“Looks like I touched a nerve downunder, where men are men and sheep are nervous. Tim Blair, an Australian blogger, saw fit to instruct an American newspaperman - i.e., yours truly - on the appropriate protocol for criticising an American president. I replied, thusly: “ Blah, blah, blah.
That’s when all hell broke loose. Tim’s attack-wallabies bared their little teeth in the comments section and began to savagely nibble at my ankles . . . blah, blah, blah.”
Kathy
geoff: My money says he won’t link to this site. Since his claims of a plastic turkey, his military service and his being a member of the VFW have been debunked he would be exposed for what he is. I sincerely hope he does link. However, I’m not sure it would exactly enhance his career to be proven a liar and generally been the butt of a joke. And did I mention being a caricature?
Spot on guys. Here’s the gutless little toe rag’s
most hiliarious article ever.
“Hi,” he wrote. “I just wanted to call your attention to the fact that your reporter, Mike Hudson, is being made fun of by an Australian blowhard, Tim Blair.”Simple and succinct was our man Kevin.
Having never heard of this Tim Blair fellow, I did a quick Google search. Blair’s a humorless right-winger who would like to be his country’s answer to Rush Limbaugh. He could probably even pull it off if anyone actually cared about what Australians think.
Why would an Australian even be interested? I wondered. I’ve always thought of Australia as a country that produces dumb, talentless blondes like Kylie Minogue, Kiki Dee, Olivia Newton-John and Paul Hogan. The few talented ones—Mel Gibson and Rolf Harris and the late Steve Irwin spring to mind—tend to be crazier than outhouse rats. The only political Australian I ever remember was Helen Reddy, who was always going on about how she was woman and we ought to hear her roar.
Who knew they had a right wing in Australia? Do they have a left wing? I wrote this Blair fellow at his Web site and posted a reply to his poorly written column to set things straight.
And so on.
No link of course.Perhaps we should supply it to his advertisers
Humourless?
The left has its boilerplate and seldom strays far from it.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 18 at 06:56 PM • permalink#37
Mike has also conferred Australian citizenship on 70s crooner Kiki Dee.
I strongly suspect he was thinking of Crocodile Dundee, which sounds kinda the same.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 18 at 07:13 PM • permalinkWhen he was naming famous Australians he forgot to name, of all esteemed personages, the Geico geiko. Just goes to show you how really, really dumb he is.
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 12 18 at 07:30 PM • permalinkAlthough I do take umbrage that you fellas, formally “oafish and infantile,” are now pansy-assed “Girl Scouts.” Where is your outrage??
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 12 18 at 07:41 PM • permalinkSpeaking of global warmenising, I think this Onion article says it best:
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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/56631Al Gore Caught Warming Globe To Increase Box Office Profits
Dozens of eyewitness reports indicated that former vice president Al Gore deliberately attempted to raise the earth’s temperature in order to boost box office receipts for An Inconvenient Truth, his documentary film about global warming that was released in May.
“We have accounts from concerned citizens that Mr. Gore purchased a Cadillac Escalade SUV several months before [his film] opened in theaters,” said Kimberly Blume, spokeswoman for the California-based environmental group Friends Of The Earth. “Not only did Mr. Gore use his new gas-guzzler to make short trips to the grocery store, he also left the vehicle running 24 hours a day in the driveway of his Tennessee home with the air-conditioning on full-blast.”
...
...#27- full deries of photos here; apparently the fat bloke who looks like Tony soprano was driving it (after a hefty session at the pub) and was trying to impress some shielas by lighting it up at the lights. Oops.
BTW- Mike’s wasted on a tiny chip-wrapper like the Niagra Bugle, with his biting rapier wit, incisive, spartan prose and fearless persuit of the truth he surely warrants a byline at The Age. Maybe he could help Traceeeeeeeeeee out with her gag columns as well, after all such a comic genius would have enough material to spread around.
Is that what happened, Habib? I figured the guy was having an argument with his wife. And when she said she wanted ‘half of everything’...
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 12 18 at 08:52 PM • permalinkMuch praise to swinish for reaching 1000 entertaining posts.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 18 at 08:57 PM • permalink1000 already! Boy, that crept up quick.
Thanks MM.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 12 18 at 08:59 PM • permalinkPoor little Mike Hudson.
That’s the first time I’ve seen Iraq compared to the “quagmire” of the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. You’re grasping at plastic turkeys now Mikey.
A “journalist” preparing a column would be expected to amke more than a superficial glance at the history books wouldn’t he Mikey?
After the Gallipoli withdrawal the Australian Light Horse fought on in Palestine and comprehensively kicked Turkey’s arse.
That led to what Mikey? Well well well, it led to the most
democratic Islamic state of the 20th century.Woops.
OT I have just been scouting the innernet to seek knowledge at the feet of some of the world’s leading economists.
At this here link (fourth para from the bottom I learned the following:
The 47-year-old from St Lucia has a fortnightly column in the Australian Financial Review and his economic research helped two researchers win a Nobel prize.
My interest piqued, I have gone to mr google to find this here article from 1998 which begins, intriguingly, with the sentence:
In the wake of the US Federal Reserve’s recent rescue of the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management, much fun has been made of its principals, economists Myron Scholes and Robert Merton, who received the 1997 Nobel prize for their analysis of the pricing of options and other derivatives.
Would these be the same people that our leading economist helped to win the Nobel Prize?
Are there any real life economists out there who can help piece this puzzle together? What’s the story?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 18 at 09:11 PM • permalinkSorry, MM, I think you might be barking up the wrong tree. It looks like that Nobel Prize was won for Black-Scholes and there’s nothing I can find linking Quiggin to research on it.
I checked out the Newcastle University database and did a ‘metafind’ of the relevant journals and publications and didn’t get any hits.
I also skimmed a list of Quiggy’s publications: ‘Accommodating indigenous cultural heritage values in resource assessment: Cape York Peninsula and the Murray–Darling Basin’ sounds gripping, I’ll have to order a copy. But sadly, nothing to do with Black-Scholes.
Ahhh. Tis better to have barked up the wrong tree than never to have barked at all.
(Jefferson)
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 18 at 09:44 PM • permalinkBark, and the world barks with you.
Quig, and you quig alone.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 12 18 at 09:50 PM • permalinkHowever, MM, you might interested in remarks from the dear old professor, from ‘Unemployment: Still Hoping for a Miracle?’. (here).
Basically he’s arguing that to get the unemployment rate below 5% (it then stood at 7-8%) the government needs to boost public sector employment:
Each $1 billion of expenditure in the human services sector, generates about 25,000 additional jobs. By contrast, each $1 billion of private final consumption expenditure is associated with about 13,000 jobs. Hence, an increase of $1 billion in expenditure on human services, and a corresponding reduction in general consumption expenditure, would be associated with a net gain of 12,000 jobs.
So he’s saying that the government should tax an extra billion dollars because they can provide greater employment for the same amount than the private sector could.
Where the fuck is that chickenhawk, Mike Hudson. So much for the stoush with our dear leader, Mr Blair.
Stupid American is either still trying to organise a passport or he’s stuck at the German border.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 18 at 10:07 PM • permalink#64 Jeepers. And I guess the government could employ hundreds of thousands of people in the Mint who could then pay themselves with their added output.
He’s good.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 18 at 10:14 PM • permalink#56: After the Gallipoli withdrawal the Australian Light Horse fought on in Palestine and comprehensively kicked Turkey’s arse.
Wasn’t there a movie made about that - the Light Horse in Palestine, I mean? The battle of . . . Bathsheba, wasn’t it? I saw it on a cable channel a few years back, and it was very good.
#67 I remain tantalised by the claim he helped two researchers win a Nobel Prize. He is commendably modest about details…
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 18 at 10:40 PM • permalinkMr Hudson has given us the name of the next blogging emporium: Bathrobe Media.
His failure to attack our convict heritage should see him demoted and forced to spend the rest of his life, writing poorly researched articles in a tiny provincial town for a down at heel throw away rag. I can only dream of this happening.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 18 at 10:44 PM • permalink“The last time they got involved in a meaningless battle against an Islamic army—in 1915 at a place called Gallipoli—the Australians counted 8,709 dead and another 19,441 maimed. Then they simply walked away, much as America will do at some future date in Iraq.”
This gutless lying sack of sh*t really knows his history, doesn’t he? Obviously never heard of Aussie troops in the holy land in WW1. Oh Mikey, you are pretty tough sitting in the arse end of anywhere and mouthing off. You must have learned that during your military service. What? You only did six months? Didn’t even finish training? Yeah mate, you’d know a lot about our combat deaths you gutless pr*ck.#72
Methinks Mr Hudson gave away too much about his preferred attire with the reference:He must feel a bond with these gutless wonders who’d rather sit around in their bathrobes attacking an American newspaperman on the Internet than joining their countrymen somewhere behind the front lines in Baghdad.
It’s a bit rough to be sent to the front in your bathrobe.
Oh, by the way Mikey, if you read this, at least I can look at myself in the mirror and say that I stuck it out. You washed out of military training and then must have washed out in journalism as well to be writing for such a fish wrapper of a ‘newspaper’. You aren’t fit to clean my great grandad’s medals - won at Gallipoli by the way, you gutless little slug.
#68 Paco,
My word your interests are wide and reach into the obscure. You either saw this if it was in colour. Or, this if in black and white.
Hudson’s piece is certainly an offensive little number, in anyone’s language (I mean his article…err, column. Oh hell, you know what I’m talking about!) Particularly that part about only 2 Australian soldiers killed, as if to say there should be more. Might get a spanking from his own boys for that one.
Besides, we Aussies can’t help it if our soldiers are brilliant.
After the Gallipoli withdrawal the Australian Light Horse fought on in Palestine and comprehensively kicked Turkey’s arse.
Australian troops were also the first Christian soldiers to enter Jerusalem since the Crusades.
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 12 19 at 12:04 AM • permalinkYes, the belittling of the Aussie contribution is both short on history and long on arrogance. In every single war the US has fought the Oz group has been by our side. More than Britain. More steadfast than Canada. Piss on this little man. He is more interested in his hatred of his country than in trifiling with the facts. But we already knew that, right? So at least he is consistent. And real Americans know that the death of even one Australian or American is one too many.
Asshat.Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 12 19 at 12:04 AM • permalink#79 Dminor: That’s exactly what p*ssed me off about it. We have committed troops to several different roles in the MEAO, some in riskier jobs than others, and that “behind the lines” crap is total bs. Certain units have had casualties (mine especially). Most are minor, thanks to a fairly robust set of ROE. I think perhaps Mikey is probably one of those ‘I support the troops but really dislike them’ types, probably due to his military experiences (vast as they were, cleaning toilets and being yelled at and all).
Mikey, seriously Knucklef*cker, get a life will ya.#82 Kathy
You’re right on the money Kathy, as a matter of fact on Independence day 2008 we will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the first time US infantry fought in an attack in WW1. Who did they choose to fight with?
The Aussies. Our commander, Monash chose the 4 July as a nod to our good friends. Have a look at what stands there today.
I like that monument very much. That really says it all. Thanks, Penguin!
Posted by Kathy from Austin on 2006 12 19 at 12:47 AM • permalink#86 - Now I don’t wanna jump to conclusion and cast aspersions against a whole city or town based on 1 person and skimming a newspaper, but I think there may be a problem with the water around Niagara. For proof, read the letters page of the Gazette.
Turns out Ireland should be unified and meat causes cancer.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 19 at 01:08 AM • permalinkThe Niagara USA Chamber of Commerce is here.
It’s officers, and contact details, are:
President
Thomas J. Kraus.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
716-285-9141 ext.23Director of Operations
Maureen T. Watz.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
716-285-9141 ext. 22Director of Membership
David M. Desmarais.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
716-285-9141 ext.24Executive Assistant
Maria Cardamone.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
716-285-9141 ext.20The Chamber’s mission specifically includes the “promotion of tourism”. Don’t forget to include links to here.
can someone clear this up?
iron mike says he never heard of tim blair before this brouhaha, but he was unbanned by andrea to take part.
if he was already banned had he trolled the blog before?
he says he has now been banned forever in the article- true?
the member profile thing does’nt show if he’s banned or not , it does show that he’s keeping an eye on us. his last visit was this morning. (howdy dipstick)
is there anything in mikes article that isnt a distortion or an outright lie?
i was responsible for the vilification law lines i think, but i asked if america had them and suggested (facetiously)that we could have some fun with him if they did. would a sane person think this is an actual legal threat?
fyi mike, the last time australians fought against muslims was gulf war 1, before that there was the communist insurgency in malaya in the 50s.
the withdrawal of the anglo/ australian armies from gallipoli was a feat on the scale of dunkirk
about the only thing that doesn’t seem to be a lie is his description of his friend as simple (he’d have to be)
i know its been said before but criticising the president and knowingly spreading a lie are not the same thing.
mike is too dumb to check facts and couldn’t lie straight in bed.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 19 at 01:24 AM • permalinkon topic
Kevin Rudd, has shut the conservation movement out of a key national environmental debate…
Peter Garrett, Labor’s climate change and environment spokesman, refused to comment ...
maybe they have finally learnt something after ten years in opposition-
but still too little and too late
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 19 at 01:40 AM • permalink#90 - We also smoked a few muzzies in East Timor.
Mike was banished and unbanished within a 24 hour period after his first post (the plastic turkey thread). It was a tumultuous and weird, but really quite short time in this blogs life, much like Mike’s proud military service record.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 19 at 01:43 AM • permalink#89: To the head honcho at the C of C, Niagara Falls:
Dear Mr. Kraus,
It is with no small degree of umbrage and affront that I write you from Melbourne, Australia to inform you that I and many, many other Australians have been deeply offended by the comments of one Mike Hudson, of the Niagara Falls Reporter.
The comments in his article “When Aussies Attack” (http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/column294.html) , as well as the threatening and menacing nature of his posts following therefrom, directed against persons at timblair.net (the initial though not the sole target of his ill-considered rancour) and others, have caused quite an uproar here “down under”.
Australians are not known for being thin-skinned, and can take it as well as dish it out – but I sincerely believe this “journalist” has overstepped the bounds of good taste and propriety by a wide margin.
This unsavoury character has turned what I am sure is a fine town, Niagara Falls, NY, from a possible destination of choice for Australians into a place to avoid at all costs.Indeed, a case could be made for his having violated the law of this land, to wit: The Crimes Legislation Amendment (Telecommunications Offences and Other Measures) Bill 2004, Subdivision C-Offences related to use of telecommunications; Section 474.1: Using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence. A link to which I include here: http://www.efa.org.au/Publish/efasubm-agd-teleco.html#47416
I write this only to apprise you of the extent to which one individual may have significantly affected the commercial and cultural welfare of your town insofar as it relates to Australian tourism.
Yours truly,
A Concerned Australian and Friend of America.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 12 19 at 01:51 AM • permalink#84 Penguin,
I just finished reading a regimental history of the famed NY National Guard “Fighting 69th” in WWI.
There was a story in there about the Yanks and Diggers cooperating on the Western Front (!!!) to punch a hole through the Central Powers trench line. The Mideast campaigns are legendary but Aussies were kicking ass in every theater in that war.
Mike Hudson’s column was very lame. The ‘Provincial-in-the-sticks’ act is very unconvincing and even Kemal Ataturk showed more class toward a heroic and worthy opponent.
I had frankly expected more from Hudson. And no linking to this site is just poor sportsmanship.
On topic: Peter Garrett is obviously an embarrassing hangover from the short but in a crazy way fun Latham period. Interesting to see how he lasts.
Off topic: Mike Hudson talks big a long way away. Interesting to see him debate the effectiveness of Australian troops with an SAS representative? It is truly amazing to read him abusing a whole nation over being called on the plastic turkey thing. How would he react if someone stole his drugs?
#96 - Without drugs we never would have heard from this delightful, deadshit. They don’t tell the kiddies that stuff in drug education class.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 19 at 02:25 AM • permalinkBack on topic.
The Labor Party might be slowly realising that ‘entertainers’ are rarely universally loved by the electorate.
Nor do they necessarily make effective politicians just because they are famous.
I doubt that Garrett would have got in if he had been nominated to a not-so-safe Labor seat.
Anybody know what happened to the trusty ALP candidate who was moved aside for Nude Nut?A third-rate nation? Us? Ouch!! Surely we’re at least second-rate.
Also, Mr Hudson sez:
I’ve always thought of Australia as a country that produces dumb, talentless blondes like Kylie Minogue, Kiki Dee, Olivia Newton-John and Paul Hogan.
Well check your facts Mike, Kiki Dee’s an English dumb talentless blonde.
He’s right about Foster’s, though (which is why none of us actually drink the stuff).
Thanks girls, thanks indeed. Do you think our advertisers don’t read the paper? They think Australians are funny too.
Do you think that letters to the Chamber of Commerce or the Niagara Gazette—both of whom are frequent targets of the Reporter—will get me in trouble? With whom, pray tell?
The whole thing about the VFW is pretty funny in that the guys at the club think I’m a member, I wrote a column about being asked to join that’s posted in our archive and have a card you slip in the door that buzzes you in, but you’ve “proven” I’m not a member.
Likewise, I hadn’t thought much about being in the Army for 30 years or so until earlier this year, when the Veterans Administration comprimised the records of millions of vets. I got a letter from them in the mail that began “Dear Veteran,” so I guess ya’ll should give the DoD a call and tell them your exhaustive research has shown that I’m not a veteran.
And as for not being current on Australian “culture,” don’t make me laugh.
Seeing as how you didn’t think the column was very funny, how about this—I got paid for it!
It was Brendan Behan who said there’s no such thing as bad publicity, and I thank Tim Blair for the several hundred visits he’s generated to the Reporter Web site.
And to all you members of the 101st Fighting Keyboards, godspeed and good luck.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 19 at 02:55 AM • permalinkKathy from Austin & others.
Canberra is much like Washington - full of the Federal Government and memorials. One of the most prominent (it drives the moonbats crazy) is the Australian American War memorial, Canberra
ps I couldn’t find a decent recent pic. Canberra was carved out of the bush only early last century. The site is now thoroughly built up - the Aust Dept of Defence complex almost surrounds the memorial now (from memory of my last visit to Canberra…)
which commemorates, in part The Battle of the Coral Sea
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 19 at 03:01 AM • permalink#102 - Don’t spend all your food stamps at once, Buttplug.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 19 at 03:02 AM • permalinkYep. Mikey’s starved for attention. Looks like he needs a nap, too.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2006 12 19 at 03:14 AM • permalinkLikewise, I hadn’t thought much about being in the Army for 30 years or so until earlier this year, when the Veterans Administration comprimised the records of millions of vets.
Hey, Mike, they recovered the computer. Being a (real) vet myself, I sort of keep track of that stuff.
“101st Fighting Keyboards”..... BUAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Not even original with his sneers. A fish wrap indeed.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 19 at 03:15 AM • permalinkAs a veteran, (U.S. Army 1974-76 and currently a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars) there’s nothing I hate worse than seeing the Armed Forces of this country used so badly by the chicken hawks currently in charge
you are a LIAR mike- an insult to anyone who has ever worn a uniform
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 19 at 03:22 AM • permalinkThere’s a term for the likes of Mikey that used to be applied, don’t know if it’s still in “vogue” though.
That term was “weak suck”. It means all things pathetic, useless, feeble and disgusting.
The commonly accepted method of interaction with weak sucks was to thump them on the head if they raised their eyes up off the deck or tried to run their mouths, as if they were capable of looking a man in the eye or of having a valid opinion.
BTW, mikey, going into battle, I’d rather have a platoon of Aussies at my back, and supported by the “101st Fighting Keyboarders”, than having a burned out, lying asshat like you, running a newsrag with delusions of grandeur.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 19 at 03:29 AM • permalinkLiar Mike:
Do you think that letters to the Chamber of Commerce or the Niagara Gazette—both of whom are frequent targets of the Reporter—will get me in trouble? With whom, pray tell?Perhaps your rag’s advertisers, as we target them, privately. HeHe.
But if not, then you can lie back, fully satisfied as being a lying coward, rejoicing in the deaths of your country’s soldiers. You must be so proud.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 19 at 03:39 AM • permalinkContinental…Since you missed it the first time, I’ll repeat it again slowly.
OUR….ADVERTISERS….READ….THE…PAPER…IN FACT…MOST…OF…THEM…HELP…DISTRIBUTE…IT.
While our Web site pays for itself, we make our money on the print edition. Send along $5 American or $1 million in sea shells or whatever they use for money down there and I’ll send along a copy so’s you all can waste your time making long distance phone calls to other people who will laugh at you.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 19 at 04:02 AM • permalinkMikey
Tell ‘em about your impressive service record. That’ll set ‘em straight.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 19 at 04:10 AM • permalinkHuddo, let me repeat slowly:
YOU… ARE .. A ... SERIAL ... LIAR ... AND ... WE ...WILL ... MAKE ... IT ... OUR ... MISSION ... TO ... MAKE ... SURE .... YOUR ... TOWNSFOLK .... AND ... ADVERTISERS ... KNOW ...THIS.
Whether or not they care of course is another matter and a matter of reflection of themselves.
And BTW, how DO you account for your statements on your “service” record, and its actual “brevity”. ROFL!
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 12 19 at 04:15 AM • permalink#102 Lil’ Mikey: As a Regular Army Sergeant with 16 years of service, who is about to deploy overseas again in a few days - get f*cked. You got caught out in one of your numerous lies, got a little affronted about it, and now you have no credibility. Judging by the reactions of others who post on this blog who are from the USA, that’s a perception not limited to my ‘third rate’ country. Niagara Falls huh? Go for a barrel ride Knucklef*cker.
Hey Mikey, As a outback tour guide here in Australia i am foever amazed how every passenger i had said that a trip to Australia was their ultimate dream, brings a tear to my eye..Funny how one Aussie upsets you and you bag the whole country.. come on down old son and i’ll take you outback for a look around..be warned old son i do run my tours along military lines so i wont be hauling your arse in 47 degree heat.
#117 Sparrow: Military lines might not suit Mikey too well mate. How’s about a tour run on the lines of walk into any pub in this country on ANZAC day and let everyone know in a very loud voice what you think of the country? As a VFW member with 6 gruelling months of military service I’m sure everyone would listen with rapt attention. Might be a kinda short tour though.
#115 there is of course the good old expression “dead from the dick up”
Posted by Just Another Bloody Lawyer on 2006 12 19 at 05:11 AM • permalinkI think you are being very hard on Mike. After all, he’s just taken a flacid story and fluffed it up a bit.
So he’s a fluffer - so what? Show me a two-bit journalist from a small town rag that hasn’t attempted to inject a bit of big town excitement into the back of beyond.
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 19 at 05:49 AM • permalink#76 Actually, I’m wearing my fluffy blue bathrobe. It used to be plain blue towelling, but the cat got to it.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 19 at 05:57 AM • permalinkworked up about a throwaway line in a column I wrote
You mean, the same way you got all worked-up about some Aussie journo 3000 miles away? One who included you amongst perhaps two dozen other lazy/reading-challenged “journalists” over the past year who can’t separate fact from fiction? And, out of all of them, you were the only one to get “worked-up” enough to send a chest-thumping/empty-threat email in response?
Is that what you mean, Mikey the Pagan?
Looks like you’re the one projecting, Mr. 51-going-on-13. Face it: you’ve reached the acme of your life as a blowhard poseur writing for a tinhat rag that couldn’t stand up to the Athens News-Courier.
The Light Horsemen
That was a good flick. But I think it focused on the Gallipoli fight, iirc?
Didn’t it end with one guy sprinting forward into sure death while Gibson’s character was trying to race to that same unit with the messege to cancel the attack?
The one that was about Palestine ... had one scene where they had to find the detonation source for explosives set about the town they had just taken… had the men holding up in the shadow of a wadi while awaiting the order to attack… a well done scene of a cavalry charge sweeping across the desert hard-pan toward the town…
was all that in Light Horsemen? or am I thinking a totally different flick?
#42 Kathy, do you mean the little green Cockney animal?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 12 19 at 11:28 PM • permalink
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