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Major breaking news:
Prime Minister John Howard was called a “disgrace” today by an early morning walker.
Mr Howard was enjoying his regular early morning walk along the shore of Lake Burley Griffin when another walker shouted at him.
“You’re a disgrace John,” the man said.
“You’re such a bad economic manager.”
This is currently the third most popular article at the SMH.
It says a lot about the totalitarian state Howard and his cabal of evil doers have created that a man can address the PM by his first name and debate economic theories whilst taking his morning walk. We’re living in a fucking police state.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 10 22 at 12:24 AM • permalinkEven worse, IT, HoWARd’s branch of the Rovian Soooooper Secret Aussie Gestapo kept the story away from the MSM. This being a slow news day, that’s a remarkable achievement.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 22 at 12:26 AM • permalinkRe: #2, yes, clearly. We all know this man will meet with an unfortunate “accident” later this week.
Perhaps he’ll simply “disappear” during the night.
All with the aid of Mossad, of course.
Posted by closeapproximation on 2007 10 22 at 12:28 AM • permalink‘“Shut up you idiot,” a young man said in defence of Mr Howard.’
as this took place in Cambra the right thinking young man must’ve been a tourist (poor kid)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 22 at 12:38 AM • permalinkEven worse, Ash_, he’s being forcibly relocated to New Jersey, as bait for exploding squirrels.
I blame Bush.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 22 at 12:58 AM • permalinkAnd whilst we are at wasn’t Bradman a bloody hopeless batsman.
Posted by the nailgun on 2007 10 22 at 01:05 AM • permalinkLabor by 4. I blame Bush 2.
JoHo’s got to get used to this kind of thing, and if he wants some free advice it’s to get a bit humorous and ditch the idiot kid.
A bit of humility John, and you might only lose by 2.
Posted by Hero Schema on 2007 10 22 at 01:05 AM • permalinkThe other walker was David Marr, who was protesting against being silenced.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 10 22 at 01:07 AM • permalink#14, yes Hero, you might be right. I used to walk around Milsons Point in the morning and bumped in JWH a few times. By “bumped”, I mean we both walked around a blind corner in opposite directions and he nearly ran me over.
My observation was that everyone he met whilst I was in hearing distance said nice things to him, like “You’re doing a great job”, and “Stick with it John”, and “You’re my hero”.
OK, I made the last one up.
From this I conclude that it has taken 11 years for a few people to start to turn against the govt and yell abuse, or lefties are just too damned lazy to get up in the morning and do some exercise. I got the feeling that JWH would happily chat with anyone who wanted to have a chat - so long as they could walk at his pace and still have enough breath to hold a conversation.
Yelling abuse from the peanut gallery is just so childish.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 10 22 at 01:12 AM • permalinkIs there a Guinness World Record for most vociferous silenced martyr?- If Marr got it would he finally shut up?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 22 at 01:16 AM • permalinkmr creosote “just too damned lazy to get up in the morning and do some exercise”. Now you’re oppressing me.
I met JoHo once on a meet the people walk. He wasn’t interested at all in what I was asking him (very politely). Oh well, I’ll just have to build a bridge and get over it.
Posted by Hero Schema on 2007 10 22 at 01:21 AM • permalink#21, can anyone tell me why Cabinet ministers are bothering to comment on the worm and feed the story? They’d do better to ignore it and just offer more
bribeswell thought out programs.Posted by Hero Schema on 2007 10 22 at 01:27 AM • permalink#21 MM- I thought BB was more interested in (trouser) snakes than worms
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 22 at 01:28 AM • permalinkHero, there was one person that liked to chalk messages on the paths around Milsons Point, and it was clear that they were aimed at the PM. Most mentioned getting out of Iraq.
Why did that person resort to chalk?
Because they were too lazy-arsed or gutless to get out of bed in the morning and stake out the path and have their spray in person. Which was fine by me. When I exercise in the morning, I don’t want to listen to some idiot raving noisily at the PM. I want peace and quiet.
So I am glad that some protestors are just too bone idle to get out of bed when there is work to be done.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 10 22 at 01:29 AM • permalink#21 - Brown wants Senate ‘worm’ probe
For the life of me I can’t think of a single sexual connotation, innuendo, euphemism, pun or smart arse remark to make about that headline.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 10 22 at 01:30 AM • permalink#27 Now JoHo’s getting out of Iraq. Chalk must work.
Posted by Hero Schema on 2007 10 22 at 01:31 AM • permalink#21
Techno discussion.
Reckon Brown’s probe won’t get up if Auntie was involved.Howard denies killing worm. Combantrin now prime suspect.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 10 22 at 02:20 AM • permalinkChinese speaking opposition leaders not popular with the Greens....
Our worm plunges to rock bottom at PM’s spruiking of Alexander Downer! Obviously a big negative for them amongst our demographic.
FINALLY Rudd takes on Howard on his record as Treasurer! YES!
Oops. He shouldn’t have mentioned that he speaks Chinese. That wasn’t popular here…
Apparently the green worm was upset by the China Syndrome.
Nine’s John Westacott:
The first call came from an ABC technician (Parliament House Studios) who said the feed was about to be cut because Channel Nine was running the worm. “Then there were calls from the Press Club (Maurice Reilly). Then they pulled our feed.”Ray Martin discusses with Franbat
(2nd hour, c. 19 min in).
Glenn Milne discusses with Franbat
(3rd hour, c. 21 min in).Considering what John Howard has had flung at him over the past 11 years, being called a “disgrace” must be like water off a duck’s back.
How he’s been able to manage and govern the country so well, given the constant harping, griping and whingeing from the Left and the Labor Party stooges, I do not know. Not to mention the insults he’s had to cop.
The man hasn’t had a minute in over a decade when someone hasn’t been trying to white ant or throw mud at him.
He’s kept his temper spectacularly well, whereas I think others (unnamed) would have spat the dummy long since.
42. Dminor (The key of Beethoven’s Ninth, and Bach’s Art of Fugue).
If by attack mouse you mean the subhuman troll posting poor porn under other user’s nics, those older and wiser than I have determined it is a retread who has done this before.
Otherwise, I have no earthly idea WTF you’re talking about.
You a musician, by any chance?
* third most popular article at the SMH: “Howard Heckled”
* third most popular article at the West Australian: “A baby echidna born at Perth Zoo will be closely watched as part of a research project to help save a separate endangered species of echidna found only in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Indonesia.
Western Australia. So much more than just 2 hours behind.
P.S. a baby echidna is called a “puggle”!
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 03:35 AM • permalinkmeanwhile up here in Queensland the Courier Mail’s third most popular story is(drumroll…)
‘Motorcyclist dies after hitting emu’
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 22 at 03:46 AM • permalinkThat’s the worst of being a politician—you have to put up with shit from rude, unwashed fools. And love it. Bob Hawke was excoriated for his ‘silly old bugger’ rejoinder in similar circumstances.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 10 22 at 04:35 AM • permalinkonly to spot another small creature risking the road. An echidna.
If a tortoise’s carapace ill-equips it for the pace of cars, an echidna would be hard pressed to keep pace with a glacier. Four thin little legs holding up a crown of thorns. Reminiscent of two removalists lugging an awkward load, like a grand piano. Though it’s unlikely to make it to safety I’m not picking up the little prick. That would define the thankless task. Instead, I stop the truck for the third time in a hundred metres and wave down two approaching cars.
Coming upon a lollipop man, minus lollipops, in the middle of nowhere they wind their windows down in puzzlement. I gesture feebly at the echidna. This is, for a long echidna moment, a pedestrian crossing. The little legs continue to lug the load at the breakneck pace of 0.005 kilometres an hour, heading due east, and the motorists simmer down. Trouble is, the echidna then changes its mind, chucks a U-ey and heads west.
For tortoises and echidnas, this is mating season. Tortoises move from dam to dam, from pool to pool in the river, seeking love. Soon the air will ring to the rapturous rasping sound of shell on shell. Echidnas? A very rare sight – you might see one or two a year. But a neighbour spots a dozen – all chasing the same seductive strumpet. In the slowest of slow motion.
Later that day, many echidnas become roadkill, sans Phatty ...
There seem to be a few recent joinees who have similiar “style”
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 10 22 at 06:01 AM • permalinkI’m a recent joinee who never got around to introducing myself properly, but I reckon Ash and 1.6 might vouch for me…
So, hi, I’m spot aka Gordon, regular residence Bolt Blog but by some stroke of luck obtained a visa for Blairworld. Live in Perth, originally from USA, normally work FI/FO up north.
Thanks for letting me play!
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 06:11 AM • permalink#62 El Cid
IT can’t name-jack those with underscores already incorporated into their names.
Yes it could. For example, it could have used ‘Ash_ on’, which would produce:
Posted by Ash_ on on 2007 10 22 at 08:42 PM • permalink
Many people wouldn’t notice the difference….
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 10 22 at 06:42 AM • permalink#70 kae. The troll apparently (from what others have said) spoofed screen names by adding an underscore. El Cid and I were referring to that. Of course, what you said about removing an underscore would also work.
I missed what happened. (And possibly should be thankful.) What did the troll link to?
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 10 22 at 07:01 AM • permalink#73
Pics of bits. Prn. Stuff, didn’t look too closely, realised it when I saw that some supposed picture of Kevvie had boobs! BIG boobs!Wondered though, how a topless Kev had got into the news, what context it was. I’ve seen kissing babies, wearing hats, wearing overalls and all sorts of election campaigning stupidity, but I just couldn’t understand the topless context… who knows with Kevvie?
‘Motorcyclist dies after hitting emu’
He should have stuck to turkey-slapping.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 10 22 at 07:24 AM • permalink#79 Ash! Oh man, I’ve messed up already? Y’all going to send me to Nauru, or some Lefty Blog, to await Asylum status?
I’m plum out of Mead… Will some Booker’s & Branch do?
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 07:24 AM • permalinkHero boy isn’t trying to be First! on every thread, but the similarities with this guy are compelling. There’s something incredibly obsessive (not to mention tiresome) about repeatedly inserting your inane comments into threads just to try and score a few puerile “Howard Lied” points. We are a very calm, tolerant, slow to anger lot here at Tim Blair, but antibodies need to be of a higher quality than HS in order to be worthy of ongoing indulgence.
#84
We are a very calm, tolerant, slow to anger lot here at Tim Blair
I was just telling Ash earlier, “It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog”
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 07:29 AM • permalink#87 Thanks Cashew. Cash for short? Shew?
So far I know a representative from the Arboretum Society, “Ash”; a representative from the Mixed Nuts Lobby, “Cashew”; and of course I am spot_the_dog the RSPCA escapee. This could be fun.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 07:37 AM • permalink#88 You’re most welcome to it Ash. I borrowed it from my Grandpa and knowing him he probably borrowed it from The Farmer’s Almanac. So far no one’s come chasing me for royalties.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 07:40 AM • permalink#91 S’pose so, kae, either that or “the consonant girl”. D’ya have a sister named “Elle”? “Em”?
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 07:44 AM • permalink#94 ...and promoted you should be, Ash.
Fraxinus excelsior, the lovely Ash.
Called by Gilpin “the Venus of the woods,” and said by Spenser to be “for nothing ill.”
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 07:50 AM • permalinkhi Gordon of Perth- I enjoy your comments at bolta’s too, it’s good to see you here in Blairistan
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 10 22 at 08:00 AM • permalink#101 Hi eeniemeenie, s’pose I can’t call you “moe”? I enjoy your comments too.
#100 Ash, that was just a typical example of Southern Boy girl-banter. We learn it at school back home. No need to respond, just dip your head and smile shyly… There ya go! LOL!
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 08:05 AM • permalink#103 Sorry Ash, not allowed. Secret Men’s Business. If you want to be a real GRIT (Girls Raised in the South), just do a lot of that shy smiling, demure head-tilting (down, not to the side gawdelpus), a little blushing, and maybe a pretty little musical laugh (NO snorting!).
But behind the scene you know all along that it’s really you who runs the show, and us boys really know that too, and are grateful for it because for all of our nice-talking we’re all just hopeless ba___ds. LOL!
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 08:17 AM • permalink# 105 splice, what it is with Australian heads-of-state and water? Not long after I moved to WA I had a contract at the Harold Holt Naval station up North a ways. lol.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 08:21 AM • permalink#110 S’okay, where I’m from is going to be all swallowed up by the ocean because of gerbil warming anyhow, and we’ll be over-run with demure GRITS with musical laughs claiming Environmental Refugee Status anyway. And a good Aussie girl who snorts when she laughs will become a rare and prized thing.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 08:27 AM • permalink#113 Actually I can see an angle in that. Buy a beachfront property, wait for it to be inundated by Global Warming, then sue the bejeezus out of Big Oil and Big Coal for having caused it. There’s always an angle.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 08:34 AM • permalinkAsh_ “I still can’t figure out how Rudd, a true believer in the new faith, would buy a beachfront property himself though…”
If it’s the Sunshine Beach I remember from my youth, the posh houses are all about 10 metres above sea level on a cliff type of contraption.
Posted by Hero Schema on 2007 10 22 at 08:37 AM • permalink# 111. spot_the_dog, you’ve got it! There are plans to build a whole new coal-loading facility (infrastructure™) at Newcastle. Honestly… as intelligent human beings, can’t we learn anything from the tragic beaching of the Pasha Bulker?
Gaia and her creatures are sensitive, and if we’re not more careful in the future the oceans are gonna swallow us up.
Miss? Miss? kae just called me a bad name over at Bolta’s. MISS!
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 08:51 AM • permalink#124 I always suspected that the Pasha beached herself as a protest statement against our insensitivity towards Gaia. I think I read that at getup! dot com… so it must be true.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 08:54 AM • permalink#126 No, miss, she called me {sniff}
TURKEYBRITCHES.
{gordo sulks}
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 08:56 AM • permalinkWell, that’s it for me for tonight. I’m all in. Thanks for the chat. See you tomorrow.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 10 22 at 09:20 AM • permalink
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