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Reporting from the wheat scandal inquiry, David Marr opens with a line combining pretentiousness with goofy mock-noir incomprehensibility:
Dead silence leaves no traces.
You know, if that were true, Harold Pinter’s plays would never have made a mark. Oh, wait ...
Must be lines from that classic cold war movie.
Run Slient, Run Wheat
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 02 01 at 03:00 PM • permalink#2: No, no, no! Dead men don’t wear plaid.
Perhaps Marr’s brain was rattled by the presence of a news dame, “a blond to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window”. Or maybe he was tired and “filled with no coffee”. Or could it be that he was chilled into incoherence by the spokeman’s strange eyes, “the color of a drink of water”. Whatever the case, Marr, Raymond Chandler did it much, much better, so leave off before somebody does the drum boogie on your skull with a lead pipe.
Marr - only a mutha could love him.
Bruce Haigh has just been on Fran’s RN segment, injecting a realistic viewpoint on the wheat trade. He is correct to point out that the ALP is acting contrary to our national interests, and in fact he goes further and says that Howard should not have had any inquiry!
The argument about the money going to buy arms was described (rather politely I thought) as Sunday Paper stuff. Fran is a twat for trotting that chestnut out. The ABC is in full chorus on this one. It is really annoying when your national broadcaster is so dense. Wake up guys - the main game is not detroying the libs - it is surviving in an increasingly precarious world.“Dead silence leaves no traces.”
In forests, no one can hear you scream
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 02 01 at 06:47 PM • permalinkThat’s right Tim, David Marr’s literary pretensions are so the main topic here – finally, your glorious leader and his henchmen have been caught red-handed and boy, what a bag.
How many US servicemen have had their Kevlar punctured by AWB funded weaponry? According to Blogstrop – “that old chestnut” (!!) and just to spite him and his Oz national interest claptrap, our best buddies in the US Congress are now hunting roos - a Cole Inquiry for grown-ups.
Just think, some Junee farmer’s 1999 crop could be underwriting Saddam’s legal expenses or buying detonators for an insurgent’s suicide bombing right now! Aussie, Aussie, Aussie.
When you lie, and lie, (and lie) to your own population, ignore all inconvenient international conventions, abuse refugees for political advantage, adopt a ‘do whatever it takes’ attitude to get elected, chuck out Ministerial responsibility, do backroom business deals with your best mates, pretend to know nothing (you think this is going to fly yet again?), throw away 50 years of United Nations pre-eminence on international security and so on, ad nauseum - then what… shoring up wheat sales on behalf of your sub-normal national party mates is suddenly beyond the pale? The war hadn’t even started!!
And this one isn’t being run by our useless joke of an Opposition leader, or what’s left of our quality broadsheet journalists, instead it’s your very own in the drivers seat - a bunch of fired up good ole boys with more generational self-righteousness and hypocrisy than a thousand Alexander Downers.
US wheat exports rule ok, but so many dead or injured grunts were raised in the same god fearing black soil that grows that pesky competing grain. “Those damned Austrians helped kill our Randy!”
Can’t wait for your update on Marion Wilkinson’s hair-do and your psychophants sniggering responses.
Spleenville – it’s always been more Gallville.
In re: the content of #14: when are people going to recognize the limitations of Babelfish? This reads like something in Serbo-Croatian that was translated into Esperanto then into English. But forget the grammatical and syntactic howlers. Look at the non-sequiturs - “United Nations pre-eminence”? Ever hear of the oil-for-food scandal, Josie May? And how secure do you think the children in the war-torn regions of Africa feel under the protection of UN rapists? And what’s up with “those damned Austrians”? Is this a dig at the presumed ignorance of Americans on the subject of geography? Is “psychofant” an attempt at a neologism, or a mere misspelling? And why is “Spleenville” considered a meaningful contrast to “Gallville”? Polemical comments are fine, but you might have had the good sense to write before you took bong in hand.
Good news, Josie May! I have submitted your comment to analysis by Paco’s Patented Incoherentometer, and out of a possible 100 TKU’s (Ted Kennedy Units=increments of incoherence), you scored 98.9! This score puts you in the same category with Al Gore and Howard Dean, so you have a great future as a failed Democratic presidential candidate! So long, old thing; we shall watch your future career with considerable interest.
I thought maybe that last line was meant to be “Gaulville.” Like, oh, I dunno, Asterix and Obelix or something. Or maybe where the French Superman grew up.
JDB - a panhandler accosts a man for a handout, the man says
“Neither a borrower, nor a lender be. Shakespeare.”
To which the begger relies:
“Fuck you. Mamet.”
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 02 02 at 01:32 AM • permalinkSelf-righteous outrage is never pretty but when its selective it’s even worse.
Lies (as defined by the left) are only bad when told by liberal governments. So when Hawke said “there is no agreement” when referring to his and Keating’s Kirribilli agreement to hand over leadership, he justified the pre-election lie by saying only he and labor could lead the country. Similar with Keatings’ L-A-W LAW tax cuts.
As for doing “whatever it takes” to win, funnily enough those exact words were the title of Graham Richardson’s autobiography. Obviously doing whatever it takes is only bad for conservative governments. Whatever you do don’t mention the NSW Right. Josie could ask Peter Baldwin about how far some labor members will go to win.
International conventions? Well i recall labor having to amend its industrial relations legislation due to violation of an International Labour Organisation convention on the right to freedom of association. Labor were notorious for signing international conventions with no input from parliament which they - like every other country - had no intention of adhering to. That’s why the coalition introduced parliamentary scrutiny of signing international treaties.
Back room deals with mates. Well labor bailed out Kodak and Hawke was best mates with Peter Abeles, Alan Bond (when he was useful) and countless other major business figures. And surely labor’s pandering to unions of course can never be seen as just looking after mates.
Abuse refugees? Ask labor. They introduced mandatory detention. And Whitlam wanted to refuse Vietnam refugees. Why? Because they’d probably vote conservative. Whatever it takes indeed.
I think the comment about sub-normal national mates is what’s beyond the pale. The wheat is sold on behalf of thousands of Australian wheat growers. Australian farmers are sub-normal are they? So less civilised then we urban types. How does one person combine pernicious snobbery and such self-righteousness in one post?
Pretend to know nothing? Well Josie show me the evidence that Ministers knew that rorts were occurring? Oh that’s right. You don’t need evidence, Of course it happened. Ministers meet with business figures in low-lit rooms in big leather chairs smoking cigars and joking about how they screwed the little people over. Josie’s knowledge of government workings must come from X-Files episodes.
The inspiration for Josie seemed to be Tim picking on David Marr. Of course the left never makes fun of people it disagrees with does it?
I’d comment on other parts of Josie’s rant but frankly some of it is unintelligible. Too much alcohol or too little medication.
“josie may”? IS that your drag queen name?
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 02 02 at 09:32 AM • permalink14 Josie May
US wheat exports rule ok, but so many dead or injured grunts were raised in the same god fearing black soil that grows that pesky competing grain. “Those damned Austrians helped kill our Randy!”
Paco, help! My P.P.Incoherentometer caught fire while it was processing this! Have you got any spare parts on hand?
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 02 02 at 03:24 PM • permalinkThanks Mr Paco. What are my chances of having it back before WebDiarrhea blows up again? I sure don’t expect to be able to follow the proceedings without it, you know?
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 02 03 at 02:46 PM • permalink#26: Wow, Stoop Davy, I don’t know if the current level of technology available is sufficient to operate a PPI on something like Webdiary; I mean, you’re now talkin’ TKU’s several orders of magnitude greater than the level detected in the unfortunate Josie May’s comments. Let’s see . . . if we turbo-charge it with dual boneheaders, and add a bore-o-tronic stupidity, or “BS”, adapter, plus wire it to a MoDo Non-Sequiturizer and throw in a Dean-o-matic over-ride circuit (a/k/a the “YYEEEAAARRRGGHH!” button), it just might work. But I’d stand w-a-y back, if I were you.
Oh no problem. I was figuing on letting Wronwright operate it.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 02 03 at 05:33 PM • permalink
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