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QUESTIONS ON MIND
The Margo Kingston Revival rolls on:
Hello. What does the Australian flag represent? Would you wear it on your face or around your neck? Why or why not?
These questions are in my mind this Australia Day because Today Tonight just rang again to see if I’d be, again, the sole person they could find with ambivalent feelilngs about the matter ...
And ambivalent spelling, which is your guarantee this is 100% genuine Margo and not some cheap spellcheck-aware imposter. As it happens, Margo isn’t ambivalent about the flag at all:
Because of my angle of vision, I see the flag as symbolising the war on Iraq, the war on refugees and Howard’s war on the rule of law, once fundamental to our British Heritage, and on human rights for all Australians.
“The war on Iraq”, Margo? The war in which Iraqi and coalition troops are fighting on the same side? Is Iraq’s government fighting ... Iraq?
But that’s just me.
And it’s wonderful to have you back. One thing, though; how come you’ve ditched “G’day” as a greeting? Is it too Australian, and thus symbolic of “the war on Iraq, the war on refugees and Howard’s war on the rule of law”? As in her earlier era, Margo’s people provide a wealth of insightful commentary:
• Martin Gifford: “Personally, I do not consider myself to be an Australian - I’m a human being, an Earthling, and a Universian.”
• Bryan Law: “What’s a Humvee?”
• Solomon Wakeling: “I am boiling some chamomile. I have not been up this late in weeks.”
And from Margo herself ...
• Margo: “I wish I had had some (any) commercial savvy, because then I wouldn’t have bankrupted myself in a deluded rush to maintain momentum post-independence before funding came through.”
Weirdly, Today Tonight’s go-to gal for flag-ragging also offered a tennis tip:
• Margo: “I reckon Gonzalez can win it. He’s hot as - can he stay there?”
Naturally, Gonzalez lost in straight sets.
(Via Rod F.)
Margo asks one Webdiarist: “Reckon red, white and blue suits today’s Australia?”
Is Margo proposing some sort of Queer Eye for the Nation-State Guy change here? Is red, white and blue so “last century”?
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 01 31 at 10:26 AM • permalink“Hello. What does the Australian flag represent? Would you wear it on your face or around your neck? Why or why not?”
Well, no, but that’s because I’m an American. However, I do see the American flag as representing our liberty, constitution, and the people. I do not confuse the flag with any specific presidency. I’m sure it is similar with clear thinking Aussies.
#5: the war on refugees
What, are Australian coastal defenses turning their heavy artillery on bamboo rafts filled with Indonesians yearning to be free? Isn’t it possible that these people are, in reality, scouts charged with the mission of finding suitable locations for the landing of Indonesian armored units? Has this been fact-checked by Terry Lane yet?
” . . . a human being, an Earthling, and a Universian.”
But, as I’m not up to any of the heavy lifting involved in being a truly independent being—like providing for my own defense, guaranteeing my own freedom to speak, floating my own currency, crime prevention, etc.—I’ll be happy to sponge all of this institutional security from a country and a people to which I owe no particular allegience or duty . . . whatever . . . yawn.
What was it that Dutch or Belgian guy said about not being any good at fighting for freedom, just good at enjoying it?
Because of my angle of vision, I see the flag as symbolising the war on Iraq, the war on refugees and Howard’s war on the rule of law, once fundamental to our British Heritage, and on human rights for all Australians.
And I see clueless moonbats questioning the propriety of flying the Australian flag as symbolising mankind’s need to go back to survival of the fittest and culling the weak. But that’s just me.
How did such a group of weak minded and weak knee people without a shred of patriotism even come into existence?
(looks suspiciously in the direction of Australia)
Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 31 at 11:35 AM • permalink#9 #4: Now I know you’re pulling my leg, Blair. There’s no such thing as a Solomon Wakeling.
Mark: wasn’t that a character in The Lord of the Rings?Sounds more like a Charles Dickens character to me. You know, sort of like Uriah Heep or Pumblechook. Come to think of it, trick her out in a crinoline and mob cap, and Margo herself would be a perfect Dickens character.
G’day
is highly divisive.
I certainly believe that it should be banned in public places. Of course, I don’t mind if people say it to themselves in private.
Just imagine if someone said
G’day
at the BDO and a a bunch of white racist youths started beating up on Moslems or other scumbuckets.
You’d all be laughing on the other side of your faces then!
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 01 31 at 12:16 PM • permalinkOh fuck I thought I turned off the fucking italics
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 01 31 at 12:18 PM • permalinkYou know, I felt the US flag still stood for the good stuff, even when “History’s Greatest Monster” was President. I wasn’t ashamed of the flag when Bill Clinton was busy being . . . well, Bill Clinton, either.
Maybe Ozzies feel that way about their flag. It’s probably a good way to check to see who really is an Ozzie and who isn’t, eh?
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 01 31 at 12:44 PM • permalinkThese questions are in my mind this Australia Day because Today Tonight just rang again to see if I’d be, again, the sole person they could find with ambivalent feelilngs about the matter ...
Well, let me get this right. There are, what, 300,000?, 3,000,000?, people in Australia? In all those people Today Tonight could find only one person with ambivalent feelings about the flag? Shit, I bet they could find more people with strong feelings against Shake N Bake chicken.
All this proves is Margo is a publicity whore. Unless it involves a paycheck. Then it just shows she needs to eat. She’d probably hand wash paco’s Fruit of the Looms if there was a check in it for her.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 31 at 01:40 PM • permalink” . . . a human being, an Earthling, and a Universian.”
A human being, an Earthling and a Universian walk into a bar. The bartender says “What is this? Some kind of a joke?”
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 01:44 PM • permalinkhttp://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/questions_on_mind/#213397
RebeccaH, you never want to get up off the floor after one of those nights. Of course, there’s always the possibility I didn’t try preview…
Oh man… Italics when drunk isn’t cool. It makes my little 21 year old (yeah, I’m a baby) head spin!
Didn’t work. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Margo
piling onbashing. (Gaa, what an awful picture).Seriously, does Australia have some sort of quota for hiring talentless hacks as writers? This is easier than shooting fish in a barrel.
1) Read something Margo wrote
2) Apply logic
3) something
4) Profit!The Personal History And Experience Of Solomon Wakeling
By Charles Dickens
CHAPTER 1
I Am BoilingWhether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show, but I’m betting on me. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the chamomile began to boil, and I began to cry, simultaneously. I would not be up again that late for weeks.
to be continued, and continued, and continued, no doubt….
If the bitch is the only one with a problem about the flag, why is anyone paying her to hear about it? She admits she can’t see straight. She admits she doesn’t understand how to mind her own business. She obviously can’t write a complete sentence (which requires having a complete thought). She causes profligate use of italics. Name one thing that recommends her.
“I’m a Human being, an Earthling, and a Universian.”
What a load of crap. What the hell does that mean? Every man, woman, and child, could say the same thing. Utterly meaningless. One might as well say they are carbon-based stardust.
“Reckon red, white and blue suits today’s Australia?” Someone’s been spending her leisure time perusing the Spanking Blog.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 01 31 at 03:12 PM • permalinkWhen I look at the U.S. flag I don’t think of George Bush, I think of George Washington. I think of the great men who founded this nation and the sacrifices they made personally so I can enjoy freedom today.
Which is why flag haters hate it.
If the unwashed masses are reminded of the bravery, values and sacrifices these countries were founded on then it’s harder to destroy it.
I think I’ll go buy an Australian flag just to annoy all the right people.
Posted by tabitharuth on 2007 01 31 at 03:36 PM • permalinkIt’s great having Margo back. Several new loonies have come out the woodwork to be regular contributors over there which easily fills my moonbat entertainment quota.
What better quote could you find anywhere that proves ones leftwing moonbat credentials than “What is a Humvee?”
Sensational!Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 01 31 at 03:51 PM • permalinkOh good lord, don’t tell me mark from Monroe is hawking PACO products too. It’s bad enough that andycanuck puts up a PACO Industries booth outside every meeting room in the White House. I cringe every time I see that big neon logo “you want it, you know you do”.
paco, are you recruiting salesmen at the minion social hook ups again?
Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 31 at 04:55 PM • permalinkMartin Gifford, how many humans actually live in your ‘Universalia’?
Yet another moonbat leftist with Fairies at the bottom of his garden - which turn into Raving Martyr Bombers unnoticed.Every day we see last century’s Leftists transmuted into dangerous New Age Utopians -nothing much has changed except the labels.
#42: paco, are you recruiting salesmen at the minion social hook ups again?
What, weren’t you invited to the Paco Parties, held in the homes of people aspiring to wealth beyond the dreams of avarice? Well, permit me to correct that oversight, right now! Rebecca is hosting the next one tomorrow night (if she lines up three more junior sales associates, she gets a customized white Cadillac, with killer mag wheels and gold-toned “Paco Enterprises” insignia). Of course, if you’re content to make just a few hundred thousand dollars a year as a tax attorney, and to remain in the midst of the lowing herd of bovine non-entities, that’s ok: it’s your right. But if you want to soar above that herd, like an eagle of ostentatious capitalist excess, join us for one of our Paco products swahrays!
Feelilngs, whoa whoa whoa, feelilngs, trying to forget my feelilngs of love…
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 01 31 at 05:49 PM • permalinkWhen-oh-when is someone going to set up a Kingston/Quiggin/Sear “Don’t Go There” sports tipping service.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 31 at 06:34 PM • permalinkThis creature was interviewed on the Channel 7 program,Today Tonight,last night.The poor woman must be one of the ugliest human beings I have ever laid eyes on.She really does deserve pity and her appearance may go some way to explaining her warped view of the world.Having seen her I may now have to reconsider my previously strongly held views regarding the wearing of the burqua.
on the rule of law, once fundamental to our British Heritage,
On any other day Margo would be screaming for the Union Jack to be removed from the Australian flag because it represented the most evil empire the world has seen. Margo is nothing if not consistent - consistently dim-witted. It never ceases to amaze me that someone with child’s view of the world could have been a commentator in a major metro newspaper. Oh look, here comes Leunig from Wearabea.
Here’s some Margo from the linked blathering:
“See anyone, I mean anyone, amongst today’s pollies and celebrities who’s game to advocate a change in the flag, or even a return to the use of the flag as a symbol of Australian nationhood too important to paint on one’s face or warp around one’s shoulders?”
Discuss. Add needed verbs, nouns, adjective, adverbs, prepositions, etc. as needed.
I thought English was the language spoken in Australia.
#54
The Kingston’s English is our highest grammatical standard.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 31 at 07:44 PM • permalinkWhat does this, excuse the vernacular, dumb bitch, think a flag is for, if not for wearing, flying, making love on,cherishing?
Oh, I forgot, representing a patrimony and set of values.
What does the Australian flag represent to her then? Racist patriarchal hegemony… and the green crescent flag???
Also, she writes only with self-reference ... my ambivalent feelings… Is she also ambi-pacifist? That is, pacifist but wants others to defend her.
But, hey, that’s just self-referential me.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 01 31 at 08:41 PM • permalinkTim, I think Margo meant Gonzales was “hot” in another sense. It’s the only way it makes sense. This is my introduction to her but she seems like some aging hippy.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 01 31 at 08:45 PM • permalinkI couldn’t give a continental about Margo’s view on the flag, but this is intriguing:
• Margo: “I reckon Gonzalez can win it. He’s hot as - can he stay there?”
That may be the most vicious public statement ever made. How on God’s green earth did poor Gonzalez ever make it on to court after having the frighteners put on him like that?
Webdiary with a sports column? That and a TV Guide and Fairfax would fold.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 31 at 08:47 PM • permalink#10 No Paco, it’s the Abu Sayef scoputing party.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 01 31 at 08:48 PM • permalinkA human being, an Earthling and a
UniversianUniversarian walk into a bar. The bartender says “What is this? Some kind of a joke?”The earthling says: No, I’ll have a lime and bitters.
The human being syas: Yes, I’ll have a lime and bitters.
The universarian thinks: Oh, so tiresome. And takes the other two guys drinks.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 01 31 at 08:58 PM • permalink#61 PIMF
Of course, the 1835 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary lists scoputing as a North Yorkshire aport, played between poachers and gamekeepers in the early 18th Century.
remember the old traditional song: “Ascoputing we will go ...”
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 01 31 at 09:02 PM • permalink#54 - wrong, they speak Strine there.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 01 31 at 09:03 PM • permalinkMartin Gifford: “Personally, I do not consider myself to be an Australian - I’m a human being, an Earthling, and a Universian.”
Oooooooh Martin, how wonderfully broadminded of you. How progressive! Your vision of the global village you live in is so inspiring in its outlook and so warm and humane. I’m truly impressed.
Now give me your passport, you self indulgent juvenile and f**k off and live anywhere in Africa.
Moron.
BTW- all of you shallow types making fun of Margo’s appearance, for shame.
I’ll have you know she takes pride in her looks, and has just undergone a makeover.
Solomon really needs to get himself a t-shirt announcing the important fact he has an aboriginal t-shirt. He could hold a chamomile smoking ceremony to launch it. And release a statement for the press communicating the fact that John Howard refused to announce it, therefore suppressing his important news.
Posted by stahlblume on 2007 01 31 at 10:51 PM • permalinkSolomon awoke. At least he thought he was awake. His eyes seemed to be gummed shut and, despite the fact his head was pounding as though he was being hit with a moonbat, not so much as a groan could escape his parched lips.
“Why am I so damned weak?” he lamented to himself as he became aware of a fly buzzing lazily overhead. “I’ve been to countless Chamomile Anonymous meetings. Jenny Macklin is a great sponsor. I’ve never met a woman with such a deep grasp of blandness. But I just can’t break free of it’s eveil grip!
“It’s that aroma, damn it. Every time someone buys a packet from ‘Lipton’ in that alley behind the yarts centre and brews up that heady mix of chamomile and Evian… that smell like compost after a week in the sun destroys my resolve!”
Finally, a groan escaped his clenched throat as he managed to open one eye.
“****!” he thought to himself (for Solomon had long ago been taught by his mummy to replace all expletives in his thoughts with hand-crocheted asterisks).
“Either I’ve been unconscious for days and that’s the second dead hooker’s corpse I’ve woken up next to… or I got so hammered last night I’ve slept with Margo Kingston”.
These questions are in my mind this Australia Day because Today Tonight just rang again to see if I’d be, again, the sole person they could find with ambivalent feelilngs about the matter ...
Remember Frontline? I can imagine it went more like this:
Producer:, “now come on, who can we get? You know, punches the demographics, woman, nutbag who will immediately annoy our viewers. Being a lezzo or from some other arty farty group’d be great”
Assistant: We can get Margo Kingston
Producer: You’re a genius!
#70 Kae.
Shows how much that gang rapist knows, the lowest point in our history was when we allowed PACO Enterprises to purchase Vegemite on behalf of Kraft Foods USA.
But oh yes, we wait, making light of the fate of our beloved yeast spread. Yes, we may appear placid and friendly, but this outrage has been added to ‘the list.’ We are patient, we are resolute, justice will be served when least expected, and the knife that brings the reckoning will then spread our joy thinly on light golden toast.
We wait. The wheels are turning.
More O/T
Film maker, Nicholas Hammond, is to make a film of the Bilal Skaf rape in 2000 (the one where 14 ‘youths’ raped a girl 25 times).
He promises to “be provocative and highlight the misunderstandings between Muslims and non-Muslims”
from
The Daily TelegraphPosted by pommygranate on 2007 01 31 at 11:04 PM • permalinkThought I was watching ABC last week when TT had Margo and Richard Neville on the same night! What’s happened since Naomi left. BTW did she save the waawaa (or whatever the kid’s name) from the cannibals?
Posted by ozconservative on 2007 01 31 at 11:12 PM • permalink#79 Penguin
Evidently not. I’m sure Nick (Friedrich von Trapp in The Sound of Music) will highlight ‘cultural differences’ as a mitigating factor.
I would so love to be proved wrong.
Posted by pommygranate on 2007 01 31 at 11:13 PM • permalink#82 The back troubles & mood enhancers mentioned could go a long way to explaining the overriding need she felt to make a safe space for the spineless. And the witless & the meek. But people keep abusing the space!
Posted by stahlblume on 2007 02 01 at 02:04 AM • permalinkI’m late, I know, but thank God Magrok’s back! I find all those Muslim/ABC/Age/SMH threads depressing.
But a thread on Mograk will brighten and RWDB’s day!
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2007 02 01 at 05:28 AM • permalink#50. I had a think about that. It’s just fulfilling to get a good stream of material for highlighting to marginal others the thoughts and agenda of the left.
I truly believe that most people in the american democrats and our ALP think along very similar philosphical lines to the Margo Kingston’s and Michael Moore’s of this world but are just smart enough to realise that the average punter out there won’t buy it.
In order for our side to be elected or re-elected it is crucial that moonbats spout their stupidity loud and clear.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 02 01 at 06:55 AM • permalinkHello. What does the Australian flag represent?
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say “Australia”.
Posted by Warmongering Lunatic on 2007 02 01 at 09:39 PM • permalink
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