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The Herald Sun’s Roger Franklin observes illicit RuddFest activity:
Why was besieged Age editor Andrew Jaspan, who withdrew as a delegate, scuttling about the floor, where the press was banned?
Makes sense to me; it’s not as though Jaspan is a journalist. The Great Gathering’s saddest aspect was Tim Flannery’s non-appearance, which denied us a furious battle of agreement:
Leading environmentalist Tim Flannery will go head-to-head with Ross Garnaut, author of the government’s Garnault Review on climate change.
Whoa! Talk about conflict.
Flannery vs. Garnaut?? I can’t get the vision of a Marieke-esque “can I put my tongue in your ear?” moment out of my head – oooh, the pain!!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2008 04 21 at 02:17 AM • permalink
- OT
the good news : “French commandos went in with guns blazing and captured a gang of pirates who days earlier had hijacked a luxury cruise ship”the bad news : “the British Foreign Office issued a directive to the once vaunted Royal Navy not to detain any pirates, because doing so could violate their human rights. …captured pirates could claim asylum in Britain” linkPosted by Col. Milquetoast on 2008 04 21 at 02:33 AM • permalink
Why was Jaspan scuttling? That is an unfair question – scuttling is Jaspan’s primary form of perambulation.
BTW has anyone ever seen these people in the same room?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 21 at 02:36 AM • permalink
Hornblower must be rolling in his grave!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2008 04 21 at 02:40 AM • permalink
- Andrew Norton has an insider’s view, reporting that a favoured recommendation appeared on Sunday morning without being mentioned the day before. Sinclair Davidson has a jaundiced outsider’s view, noting the serious lack of good ideas in the Rudd administration despite promising to be fresh and new.
Remarkable how all the big ideas from the Comedy Festival have most of the following characteristics.
1. Divisive.
2. Cost a bundle.
3. Provide more power and career paths for coercive utopians.
4. Will probably make things worse rather than better. The great exception is The Republic which will make no difference at all to the bogan in the street.
- Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 21 at 02:46 AM • permalink
The debate…
Flannery: 10 metre sea level rise.
Garnaut: 12 metres.
Flannery: 15 metres.
Garnaut: 50 metres.
Flannery: 100 metres…
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 21 at 02:49 AM • permalink
- Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 21 at 03:02 AM • permalink
The Summit – Team Australia – f*ck yeah!
Cast
Wolverine (Jackman)
Galadriel (Blanchett)
The Milky Bar Kid (Rudder)
Maria Callas (Therese)
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz (Phatty)
&c.
The Age’s Friday editorial the day before 2020 was somewhat surprisingly cynical:
The Prime Minister must be aware of the criticisms of the 2020 Summit that have been raised in the wider community. Some see this unelected assembly as an inherently elitist, undemocratic project, while others believe that the difficulty of ensuring that 1000 people get to have their say in the course of a mere two days will mean that the summit is ultimately ineffectual. If the Government does intend to use the summit as a sounding board for its preconceptions about policy outcomes, it runs the grave risk of vindicating both groups of critics.
They’re right about that. Alexander Downer was right today in calling it a left-wing talk-fest; David Flint termed it a greater gerrymander than Mugabe. Good call.
#24- Probably Phatty on his way back to the truffle ranch. I’m betting the caterers are on their way to the Bahamas by now.
Anyone have the misfortune to view Red Kezza going in hard, without fear or favour on the divisive and authoritarian PM oops, that’d be if JWH was still in Kirribilli house- I was waiting for him to take his teeth out. It made Gerry Doogue’s tongue in the trouser effort on Sunday look like a session at the Auto-da-Fe’ in comparison- ain’t it wunnerful ter live in a dermocraceee?
I’m beginning to think some evil bastard spliced the deformed and mutant genes of Jimmeh Cahta and Tony Blair together, and implanted this abomination in an unsuspecting evictee milkmaid’s uterus while she slept in a rusting Kombi outside Nambour.
Who could have done such a thing? I have my suspicions….
timmy flannelette is an odd mixture; he hates whales;
He also rightfully blames the blameless indigenous folk for killing all the big things and thus preventing Steve Irwin from making a buck from them, or, even more profitably, being killed by a procoptodon goliah. My theory is; flannels is twins; a good twin who makes reasonable sense, and a loon twin who does bad impersonations of r. williams.
More Proof of Global Warming using Newer Scientific Information linky
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 21 at 06:39 AM • permalink
Kevin has been quoted (can’t find it on Google) as saying that he doesn’t want to be the “Prime Minister of a country that produces nothing.”
Rest easy, Kev.
This country produced me.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 21 at 06:58 AM • permalink
> and an economist, both from the Left.
Isn’t that like a Creationist DNA researcher or a flat-earth astronomer? It’s pretty obvious from history that socialism fails. It’s pretty obvious why socialism fails (it destroys comparative advantage, it destroys incentives to improve & it rewards failure). It pretty obvious that the degree of socialism is correlated with the degree of economic problems (unemployment, lowered economic growth).
#32 – Kevin has been quoted (can’t find it on Google) as saying that he doesn’t want to be the “Prime Minister of a country that produces nothing.”
Let’s hear Kevin’s views on Singapore. I’m sure the Singaporeans will be impressed.
Posted by walterplinge on 2008 04 21 at 07:17 AM • permalink
- It’s time for a tax overhaul, because the Howard government did nothing!
I think this this decodes to “We want to spend more on flim flam, glib global stuff, and compo for the mendicants, so we’ll tax the family home, deceased estates, and sock the retirees for more. Then we’ll raise the rate of GST – yes that revolutionary new tax that <someone> introduced – but don’t ask us to lower personal tax any more, or do away with all the state rip-off taxes they were supposed to lower when the GST came in.”
> and an economist, both from the Left.
Isn’t that like a Creationist DNA researcher or a flat-earth astronomer?No Lefty economists – you’re kidding?
Oz Labor commissioned the report it wanted from a friendly as did UK Labor with the expendable Stern when it wasn’t satisfied with its own departments’ findings.
From previous, the USA’s Robert Shapiro on the issue …
- When it comes to ideas, this Ben Stein chappie seems to have a few.
Let’s face it, anyone whose flick can make Michael Moore’s films seem like “dry scholarly treatises” by comparison is guilty of some exceptional thinking.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 21 at 08:00 AM • permalink
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, attacked Oil Pipes seeks help from Jimmy Carter and actor George Clooney
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 21 at 08:07 AM • permalink
- Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 21 at 09:06 AM • permalink
Now here’s an interesting comment on climate change:
“I read somewhere that the sun’s getting hotter every year,” said Tom genially. “It seems that pretty soon the earth’s going to fall into the sun – or wait a minute – it’s just the opposite – the sun’s getting colder every year.”
The source? Have a guess, old sport.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 21 at 10:20 AM • permalink
Ok, time for some linking and name dropping. I’ve met Henry Ergas, although he would not remember, and he’s a pleasant, studious guy. Also have met Fred Argy, who’s a bit more assertive,and gets interviewed by the ABC.
Syndicated cartoonist Paul Zanetti has rounded on Rudd’s Blanchett obsession. Yesterday’s cartoon had Rudd clutching the must important document to come out of the summit, Blanchett’s autograph, while today’s has Rudd pondering the choice of republican models – Blanchett or Jackman as the first president.
Zanetti was no friend of Howard but he doesn’t seem impressed with Circus Ruddicus.
Talk around the office since the return of our attendee at the 2020 Ruddstock 08 Festival has been:
From staff: Why didn’t you get Hugh Jackman’s autograph?
From the attendee (and staff): Cate was just amazing because she’d had a baby only, what, six days before, and she must have been in pain, and…. blah, blah, blah.
Just shoot me.
I liked Zanetti’s cartoon with the sun shining out of Rudd’s bum on the gathered thrall.
And Rudd explaining that he uses a low power fluoro light.
Funny thing though; The co-chair was on 702 ABC radio yesterday mornig, and stated that ALL sessions were open to the public.
So the co-chair of the whole thing isn’t even aware that the highest-profile session in the place was blocked to the media?
Stupid, or depending on the MSM for his talking points?
Posted by Paul Wright on 2008 04 21 at 09:25 PM • permalink
They thrown open the windows of democracy and let in a bunch of wankers that no one voted for.