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NO BLOOD FOR SCHOOLS
Heil Howard’s bloodthirsty decision to help Japanese engineers build roads and schools in Iraq shames and terrifies us all. What might this sociopath, this – yes, I’ll say it – this dictator attempt next? Any man savage enough to actually assist multinational humanitarian missions could just as easily impose martial law, or institute conscription, or simply stab us to death as we sleep.
Did you know that Howard’s plan will provide aid and support for those restoring water supplies in Iraq’s south? That’s the kind of hateful bastard monster we’re dealing with here. He is sending our army to brutally protect people who are delivering water to Iraqis! It’s just like we’re living in Germany in 1938.
At least the churches are standing up to this tyrant and his fascist school, road, and water scheme. So is brave Margo Kingston, whose Webdiary has lately featured much informed discussion on this and other key Iraq issues. The following comments are from Margo herself:
Bush’s reckless adventure is near collapse. America’s power is waning fast.
the Iraq project is dead
some are reporting that the resistance is effectively laying seige to the capital.
it kept on stuffing up until the situation became unsalavageable.
I’m not a machine, I’m a human being.
you don’t think oil was a major reason for invading Iraq? If so you’re pretty lonely on that front
the resistance is not only comprised of terrorists; it includes fighters attacking the occupying power.
Does anyone know why the Americans use depleted uranium in their bombs?
Champayne
the Coalition of the Willing is crumbling, security is worsening, the Americans have run out of troops to send
I support Margo’s stand. I’d like to see her carrying this sign at the next big anti-war rally: “DO NOT BUILD SCHOOLS IN IRAQ. LET JAPANESE HUMANITARIANS BE SHOT. NO WATER FOR AL-MUTHANA PROVINCE.”
Peace!
UPDATE. Margo is weary: “Tiredness is setting in, I’m afraid, and the skipping of a few corners.” She should take a tip from Webdiary reader Russell Darroch: “I watched Lateline, then had to take a loooong walk in the moonlight!”
Good thinking, Russell. Moonbats need their moonjuice!
Poor old Margo, she just can’t come to terms with fact that Howard is in power so she is willing to accept any calamity if it reflects badly on Howard.
She of the generous spirit! Every issue covered by the webdiary must start with a Howard = bad basis and work up from there.
Has anyone noticed how the truly loony leftiods all gravitate to the Webdiary, I visit a lot of blogs through the course of a week and without fail the absolute majority of raving lunatics are posting at the webdiary and it is impossible to find a greater group of people who are obsessed with their own self importance and perceived moral and intellectual superiority.
Also Tim, I’d like to make a suggestion, there should be an award for the peanut of the week, heres my nomination, straight from the Webdiary by a Mr Brian McKinlay.
Two credible observers, Robert Fisk,and Professor Juan Cole, have said recent days that the insurgents have complete control of the Iraq road network and that every road in to Baghdad is cut by rebel action.
Fisk and Cole, as fonts of knowledge, need I say more!
Has anyone noticed how the truly loony leftiods all gravitate to the Webdiary
True! I’d add that the ABC online forum rates a very close second.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2005 02 24 at 10:59 PM • permalinkDo some people believe if you repeat something often and believe REAL hard, it will come true? To me, this seems to be what Margo is doing.
Ignore reality. Just keep believing what you KNOW to be true, and it will come to pass?
btw:
We were told that the US was in Afghanistan because of the oil, also. We were supposed to see the construction of some oil pipeline to benefit Haliburton (of course).
How’s that coming along? Haven’t heard much about this recently. Enough time has elapsed that I assume it must almost be completed.
Why aren’t the “it’s all about the oil” folks keeping us updated on this?
Posted by CJosephson on 2005 02 24 at 11:03 PM • permalinkHow deluded would one have to be to routinely visit the Webdiary for any reason other than humour? When is the last time this woman’s opinion was coherent enough to warrant attention from anyone but finger-pointers? Do Australians still see this kind of person as anything other than a frigne lunatic?
The National Council of Churches almost makes me want to change my religion. Perhaps I’ll start my own one up.
Posted by brucey bonus on 2005 02 24 at 11:08 PM • permalinkTim, this is OT, but I wanted to congratulate you. Your blog is featured on a new UN blog paid for by Jane Fonda’s ex, Ted Turner.
http://www.undispatch.com/index.html
Look on the left for the linkies.
“UN Dispatch is sponsored by the United Nations Foundation…”
...and the United Nations Foundation is paid for by Ted Turner:
http://www.unfoundation.org/about/chairman_message.asp
Posted by Lou Minatti on 2005 02 24 at 11:52 PM • permalinkI’m not a machine, I’m a human being.
I wish she was a machine. At least you can switch them off when their brains malfunction.
Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2005 02 25 at 12:08 AM • permalinkPersonally, I prefer Turner’s other website. Not PETA-friendly, but then they guy still would do tommahawk chops at Atlanta Braves games, if Time-Warner hadn’t sold the team out from under him, so now that Hunter Thompson’s dead, Ted’s the closest thing we have to an un-PC gonzo media guy with moonbat liberal beliefs.
As for Margo, I’ll bet she wasn’t real happy with that German cheerleader thing for Bush, either.
via commenter ‘red’ at ‘paul and carl’s daily spray’ - ‘You mean Australian diggers will get to watch Japs build bridges and railways for a change?’.
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 02 25 at 12:57 AM • permalinkBetter later than never.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 02 25 at 01:04 AM • permalinkHey. Margo spends enough time in the dark; what’s one more walk?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 02 25 at 01:05 AM • permalinkMargo’s also been skipping her medication; better let her minders know to have her http://fsweb.wm.edu/crossroads/images/straitjacket.jpg[/img]”]special moon coat handy.
(Maybe that’s why there’s so many errors- have you ever tried typing with your nose?)Oops- for some reason you can only post one link; 2nd link here. For some reason, Margo doesn’t venture out in the daylight much- perhaps the prospect of spontaneous combustion on contact with direct sunlight is a little daunting; what does a vegan vampire feast on- bloody marys? Artichoke hearts? Virgin olive oil?
Tiredness is setting in, I’m afraid, and the skipping of a few corners.
Surely that would be ‘cutting’, not ‘skipping’, wouldn’t it?
Either way, remind me never to get to get in a car with Margo… for any number of reasons.
Posted by blandwagon on 2005 02 25 at 01:43 AM • permalinkREG They’ve bled us white, the bastards. ...
REG All right, Stan. Don’t labour the point. And what have they ever given us IN RETURN? (he pauses smugly)
XERXES The aqueduct?
REG What?
XERXES The aqueduct.
REG Oh yeah, yeah they gave us that. Yeah. That’s true.
MASKED COMMANDO And the sanitation!
STAN Oh yes ... sanitation, Reg, you remember what the city used to be like.
REG All right, I’ll grant you that the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans HAVE done ...
MATTHIAS And the roads ...
REG (sharply) Well YES OBVIOUSLY the roads ... the roads go without saying. But apart from the aqueduct, the sanitation and the roads ...
ANOTHER MASKED COMMANDO Irrigation ...
OTHER MASKED VOICES Medicine ... Education ... Health
REG Yes ... all right, fair enough ...
COMMANDO NEARER THE FRONT And the wine ...
GENERAL Oh yes! True!
FRANCIS Yeah. That’s something we’d really miss if the Romans left, Reg.
MASKED COMMANDO AT BACK Public baths!
STAN And it’s safe to walk in the streets at night now.
FRANCIS Yes, they certainly know how to keep order ... (general nodding) ... let’s face it, they’re the only ones who could in a place like this.
(more general murmurs of agreement)
REG All right ... all right ... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order ... what HAVE the Romans done for US?
XERXES Brought peace!
REG What!? Oh ... (scornfully) Peace, yes ... shut up!Margo, have you thought of taking fellow gonzo-journalist Hunter S. Thompson as a role-model? Might be a good idea.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 02 25 at 03:26 AM • permalinkWe were told that the US was in Afghanistan because of the oil, also. We were supposed to see the construction of some oil pipeline to benefit Haliburton (of course).
How’s that coming along? Haven’t heard much about this recently. Enough time has elapsed that I assume it must almost be completed.
Didn’t you get the memo? The Americans have lost control of Afghanistan and it is not safe for them to build their pipe. So instead they attacked Iraq to get their OILLLL.
Posted by drscroogemcduck on 2005 02 25 at 03:31 AM • permalinkA Margo Fantasy, interpreted:
It kept on stuffing up until the situation became unsalvageable. I resisted.
“I’m not a machine, I’m a human being, Margo Kingston”, I still insisted.
“So, they don’t think oil was a major reason for invading Iraq? Well get a load of this, you alumed Cylinder”, It persisted.
It Akbar, Alum Akbar, I’m culminating, double fisted.
Jackboots, Jackboots, marching up and down again ....
Adelaide/1 May, 2005
Co-workers at the Sydney Morning Herald today identified Margo as being amongst photographed inmates at Baxter Detention Camp.
“Margo was off on one of her regular disappearances, and we didn’t notice anything unusual for a while.”
A spokesman for the Minister for Immigration (Amanda Vanstone) said that Margo had been sent to Baxter after being apprehended at Byron Bay. She was only partly coherent but claimed to be an alien and to have landed with a load of drugs from a North Korean freighter.
She also said that both Phillip Adams and Pauline Hanson were comrade aliens and that the world was about to end, and that she would prefer to be along way from anywhere when it happened. So Baxter would be nice.“wants a planned withdrawal of Australian troops and self-determination for Iraq” but isn’t prepared to actualy DO anything to help self determination, except sit around and grouse & carp. For fucks sake, have you ever heard such a crock of shit in all your life? I’m a practicing, believing Roman Catholic (not a touchy feely, caring & sharing & fuck all else Ozcatholic), these mealy-mouthed scumbags don’t represent me or any real followers of Christ that I can think of. Pray for the Japs & our blokes, and for the future of Iraq, and for the continued strength of the US of A.
Does anyone know why the Americans use depleted uranium in their bombs?
Margo must have seen that “documentary” that was shown on SBS courtesy of the taxpayers pocket last fortnight.
The bald lies that were spouted in this program were too ridiculous to get by a Year 10 high school assignment. Things like: depleted uranium is *more* dangerous than “natural” uranium; depleted uranium is highly radioactive; a random dirt sample around a destroyed tank was almost pure depleted uranium; the old deformed babies routine (but Saddam always said sanctions caused these!); and of course that the Americans use depleted uranium in everything - probably even in their toothpaste (that ionization really makes your teeth sparkle!).
All according to the hyphenated quack behind the program. That Margo believes this shite lock stock and smoking turd only underscores what a complete maroon she is.
Heil Howard seems like the kind of person who would deliberately fart in a crowded elevator.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 02 25 at 09:34 AM • permalinkThis is pretty off-message, but don’t miss the wonderfully deranged piece by A Dill Horin in the SMH ranting that it’s crueller to give up children for adoption than to kill them.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 02 25 at 10:20 AM • permalinkLunatic Fringe
From - As Far As Siam
Lunatic Fringe
I know you’re out there
You’re in hiding
And you hold your meetings
We can hear you coming
We know what you’re after
We’re wise to you this time
We won’t let you kill the laughterLunatic Fringe
In the twilight’s last gleaming
This is open season
But you won’t get too far
We know you’ve got to blame someone
For your own confusion
But we’re on guard this time
Against your final solutionWe can hear you coming
(We can hear you coming)
No you’re not going to win this time
We can hear the footsteps
(We can hear the footsteps)
Way out along the walkway
Lunatic Fringe
We know you’re out there
But in these new dark ages
There will still be lightAn eye for an eye
Well, before you go under
Can you feel the resistance
Can you feel the…thunder©Tom Cochrane
Jesus, you’re kidding. She actually said that? Yes she did.
Surrendering a child for adoption is not a neat alternative to abortion. We have learnt nothing from recent history if society once again puts pressure on pregnant young women to take the adoption route by making abortions less accessible. What happened to thousands of relinquishing mothers cannot be ignored or dismissed. They experienced not the promised “clean break” but enduring pain.
I’m adopted. I was born in 1963, when, yes, abortion was illegal in my state (Florida). So what this woman is saying is that I’d have been better off not being born because my real mommy might have been sad. Stupid cow.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 02 25 at 10:43 AM • permalinkThat ignorant cow. I’m supremely ticked off. How dare she claim that birth mothers’ suffering is ignored; the suffering (and physical risk) of would-be mothers who abort is well-documented and completely ignored by the MSM.
I was born in ‘72 and my sire dumped my mother because of it. I was adopted by my stepfather and was never treated any differently from my brother and sister (his “own” kids).
Hell, just Google “abortion complications” and you get over 300,000 hits. What a jackassed thing to say. God, I can’t wait ‘til my next hockey game so I can run something over.
Heil Howard ...
When Tim or anyone uses these sarcastic ad hominem names in satire, it’s golden. Each time, it makes the left liberal look like the fools they are. And when the latter use them, they just parody themselves, without meaning to of course, or possibly without even knowing they doing it.
Bushitler. Bush lied!!! The evil Dr. Rove. Those crack me up every time.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 02 25 at 04:50 PM • permalinkTim, I wonder if you know how lucky you are to have someone like Margo. She’s a gem. Even if you tried and hired someone to write truly worthless and clueless comments, that person couldn’t do half as well as Margo. She’s an unbelievably valuable resource to you. And to us.
Oh, I hope she never gets too tired. She can’t ever quit. Please never become too, too depressed to, to write, anymore. I won’t stand for SMH terminating her, regardless of the cause. Where would my daily amusement come from if she left?
Gawd, if it ever came to old Margo getting axed because, well, because she’s an unbelievable horse’s arse second to none with the possible exception of the editors and leaders of SMH and Fairfax, I for one would be interested in setting up a fund to pay her to continue writing her priceless if misspelled comments on, well, whatever she writes on.
Margo must go on!
Posted by wronwright on 2005 02 25 at 05:15 PM • permalinkI love this “moonbats” thing. Funny. Whatever our thoughts on Kingston, though, there are a few points made at Webdiary which should be treated seriously.
Can anyone answer the question about depleted uranium warheads? We could also ask about the cluster bombs which the Russians have used in Chechnya. Are these weapons (illegal and subject to international treaties as far as I know) really necessary when the invading force has overwhelming miitary superiority? Would these be called WMD if Iraq had them? What about the manufacture of land mines? Are these issues unrelated?
C Josephson, oil began pumping out of Iraq within months of the official close of the war. Yet many Iraqis are without reliable electricty and running water. And have you seen the price of fuel at Iraqi pumps?
Surely it isn’t too outrageous to wonder why the public infratsructure still requires rebuilding yet the oil infrastructure has been back up and running for a long time. This doesn’t demonstrate too much respect for the Iraqi people. And what are we rebuilding anyway? If it’s taking this long to restore basic services, then perhaps the invasion caused more damage than we would like to think.
nwab, please don’t troll the comments with questions that have already been addressed not just once but countless times, here and elsewhere, such as the “dangers” of depleted uranium, dastardly cluster bombs, and so on. They were “serious questions” once but now they are simply as irritating as hearing your beloved spouse ask for the thirtieth time where his reading glasses are when the are on the top of his own head where he left them.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 02 25 at 10:48 PM • permalinkAnd by the way, I would like to ask you who labelled you god of the clocks, and would really like to hear how fast you could rebuild a country’s neglected and misused (by Saddam’s corrupt Baathist regime) public infrastructure without utilizing its most valuable resource—or how the country is supposed to utilize its most valuable resource without getting it “up and running.”
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 02 25 at 10:53 PM • permalinkChrist these Lefties are a bitter, miserable lot!
Maybe Margo’s bile will catch-up with her the way it did with Hunter S. Thompson recently.
It’s hardly surprising that many of these sad, venomous individuals are homosexual. Margo, David Marr, Gore Vidal…I guess they’ve got to get all that alienation and woe out of their system one way or another.You know, this really is the gift that keeps on giving. Just watching these moonbat heads explode one by one, since Howard and Bush each achieved stunning electoral victories, has been months of absolute joy.
It reminds me of my Dark Period when I was a fully paid up member of the Labor Party, and I attended meetings at the local branch. Every branch meeting, there was this member who wore a pristine blue boiler-suit, who raved on about (a) killing the lawyers (b) increasing taxes to help the unfortunate etc. etc.
He would always refer to “my union”, and “as my union’s delegate”, and “I am the shop steward for my union”.
I asked a mate of mine (currently a Minister of the State) what union this person was involved in.
The Honourable Mate replied: “Ignore him, he’s just a wanker. He’s from the Banking Officer’s Union!”.
Fortunately, my Dark Period was mercifully brief.
brian, are you saying that margo k. is a h0m0sexual? if this is true she should come out and declare her err ‘allegiance’ to other womenfolk. fair and balanced journalists should have no skeletons in the closet. does she have something to do with that julie ‘woodywoodpecker’ gillard person?.
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 02 27 at 03:07 AM • permalink
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Why don’t some of these folks go complain about a real human rights tragedy, like Darfur or the Congo?
I know…. I know… if the bad thing can not be blamed on the warmongers and capitalists then there is no bad thing.