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Actress Cate Blanchett is among Kevin Rudd’s heroic summiteers:
The 38-year-old will chair a discussion group on the theme “Towards a Creative Australia” at the 2020 summit planned by prime minister Kevin Rudd in April …
Mr Rudd said she was one of many “creative individuals in their own right, with ideas to contribute”.
Blanchett shouldn’t be too generous; she needs some ideas herself. For one, how to reverse a ten per cent decline in subscriptions at the debt-wracked theatre company she bought. Be creative, Cate! Maybe you could sign up the nation’s summit-fevered children to present Summit on Ice!, Summit: The Musical, or Summitdance:
In an effort to spread the pre-summit fever, the Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, said on Sunday that all primary and secondary schools would be invited to host their own summits before the Canberra event.
Hey, kids! Here’s an idea that might win Prime Ministerial approval: instead of driving cars, how about we all live in them?
(Via Eliot R.)
UPDATE. Reader Steve submits a Grease-inspired summit tune:
Kevin: Summit lovin’, had me a blast
Cate: Summit lovin’, happened so fast
Kevin: I met a girl crazy for me
Cate: Met a boy cute as can be
Both: Summit days driftin’ away, to, oh, those summit nights …
Garrett would make a reasonable Gollum if he was a few feet shorter.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2008 02 26 at 01:51 PM • permalink
“The 38-year-old will chair a discussion group on the theme “Towards a Creative Australia” “
I like how the left wing idea for fostering creativity is to form a committee. When Cate Blanchett was playing Queen Elizabeth the first were there any scenes where she was sitting in a discussion group discussing how her government could empower creative artists like, if not how does she think the likes of William Shakespeare thrived in that era?
- Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 02 26 at 02:46 PM • permalink
“Deep Summit”
would attract more interest.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 02 26 at 02:47 PM • permalink
Although “The Man From Summit Fever” would add some local tie-ins.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 02 26 at 02:48 PM • permalink
- Citizen Kevni
The Three Summiteers
The Seven Summitai
South Pacific Summit (featuring those classic hits “Summit enchanting evening, you and I will conference” and “I’m gonna wash Garrett, though he has no hair, and send him on his way”)
Kevni (the rock opera by Who?)
1000 the story of the epic stand against Emperor JerksesPosted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 02 26 at 02:56 PM • permalink
A Pack Of Shit Now the story of all summit-related press releases
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2008 02 26 at 03:09 PM • permalink
Toothless Tim Fischer and Cate Blanchett on the same platform? What a hoot that’ll be – the blond and the bland.
Between the pair of them they might possibly muster up a few grams of credibility – on a good day that is – but I won’t be holding my breath.
An awful lot of country folk will forever remember Turncoat Tim as the Deputy Prime Minister & National Party Leader who sold a few million gun owners down the river when he cravenly caved in to Howard during the infamous Uniform Fiream Laws debacle. And, incidentaly, became the darling of the ABC for years thereafter.
Cate chairing a discussion group to help lead Australia forward? Not a problem! As paco noted, she played the role of an Elvish monarch. Surely that qualifies her, in the same sense that Martin Sheen is seen as having the experience to criticize President Bush after portraying the President in “The West Wing”.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 26 at 04:19 PM • permalink
Herr Rudd – made me smile.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2008 02 26 at 05:08 PM • permalink
Hey, I know this guy’s not Australian, but how about letting him into the Krud Think-A-Rama on a waiver; you know, sort of seeding that big cloud of left-wing Aussie “genius” with some right-wing street smarts.
Surely the longstanding Australian household name around the world, Eva Orner is now a strong contender although they may be struggling to work out if she would be better suited to providing advice on
a) “Towards a creative Australia: the future of the arts, film and design “
or
b) “Australia’s future security and prosperity in a rapidly changing region and world “*
* (possibly to provide high quality analysis on the USA’s military strategies ?)
Hey, I noticed in another thread that our old friend PW is back! Did Wronwright strand him in ancient Assyria or something?
I understand (unofficially, of course) that PW was on a secret mission for Lord Karl involving green Orion women, a Klingon Bird of Prey, and an huge amount of Sumerian mead that mysteriously disappeared from His storerooms.
Lord Karl was most displeased when He discovered the loss, and dispatched PW with orders to “terminate with extreme prejudice” anyone involved.
I’m not sure how the green Orion women fit in. I’m still waiting for the afteraction.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 26 at 05:29 PM • permalink
The rest of the committee will be praying Chairman Cate doesn’t organise the customary jug of water that accompanies talkfests.
The appointment of Blanchett does show that if this conference were a flooded causeway, you could safely let your toddler across it on a tricycle. Actors, by and large, are as dim as supermodels. Their skill is their ability to follow instructions from the director, who is the real brains on the set. There are notable exceptions but the story Steyn referred to showed that Blanchett is at the dumb end of Hollywood Boulevard. She boasted about recycling urine as a water-saving measure at the same time as workers were installing a very large swimming pool in the grounds of the mansion.
Hey, I noticed in another thread that our old friend PW is back! Did Wronwright strand him in ancient Assyria or something?
Oh, oh, that’s so so unfair. I hardly ever make a mistake on a time travel mission.
(~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ wronwright flashes back ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~)
Scene: 2550 BC, City of Urak
Ww: Okay, great. Team Alpha has done well, very well. As I count it, we’ve filched 123 kegs of golden mead from the royal storeroom of that Sumerian king.
(paco walks out of the bathroom holding a copy of Robber Baron Quarterly)
ww: Now, I realize all of you are a bit tired and sore from moving those kegs.
Michael Lonie: We could have used some help wronwright.
Ww: And help you shall get. MarkL, help Lonie move those kegs. As I was saying, it’s for a good cause. Let’s suck it up and move them off the wagon into the Tardis. Quickly. Those guards could be looking for us.
(paco reaches for the cord, suddenly the Tardis activates)
ww: What? No. Noooooooooooooooooooo. We didn’t move the mead yet!
____________________________________________________
Scene: North Atlantic, April 14, 1912.
Ww: Okay, gentleman, here’s the deal. The Titanic has struck the iceberg. It’s sinking. So we’re going to open the main safe and filch all the stock certificates, bonds, cash, and jewelry. We’ll zip back to 2007 and cash in the investments. Due to appreciation, they’ll be worth billions. Any questions?
Michael Lonie: Well, I like making a profit same as the next man. But don’t you think –
Ww: You won’t be making a profit Lonie. This booty will be going into the VRWC operating funds. I fully expect a promotion to full member from Karl as a result.
Michael Lonie: Well, okay, sure. But what I was trying to say is, shouldn’t we try rescuing some of the passengers?
Ww: HELL NO.
Ww: Um, what I meant to say is, we can’t. It would affect the time line. We can’t chance doing that. Otherwise, there is nothing I would rather do than forgo stealing a fantastic fortune in order to save a few people I don’t know and would probably be dead anyway by the time we get back to 2005.
(wronwright gives a sympathetic tilt of the head. Just then paco walks out of the bathroom)
ww: About time.
Paco: Sorry. It was the burritos. You know I usually like Chipotles but …
Ww: Fine, fine. We’re short of time here paco. The water is one floor down. Let’s move out of the Tardis and start opening those safe deposit boxes. Oh, this is so easy.
(wronwright rubs his hands together, licking his lips at the same time. paco reaches for the cord. Suddenly the Tardis activates)
ww: What? No. Noooooooooooooooooooo. We didn’t get the stock certificates yet!
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 26 at 05:39 PM • permalink
Scene: 1323 BC, Egypt, Valley of the Kings.
Ww: Okay, gentleman, this time I have a full proof plan. King Tutankhamen has recently passed away and we’ve piloted the Tardis into his tomb. We just need to go out and move all the gold and jewels into the Tardis. Karl will be pleased.
Michael Lonie: But can we do that?
Ww: Uh, yes we can.
Michael Lonie: No, I mean should we?
Ww: Yes, we should Lonie.
Michael Lonie: I mean, really, should we? Wouldn’t that affect the time line?
Ww: The what?
Michael Lonie: The time line. You remember in the Titanic you said –
Ww: Don’t. Bring up. The Titanic.
Michael Lonie: Well, you know, the big plan to steal billions of dollars –
Ww: Yes, yes.
Michael Lonie: And Karl would promote you to —
Ww: I know what the plan was.
Michael Lonie: Well, I’m just saying, won’t it affect the time line?
Ww: No.
Michael Lonie: Yeah, it would, because —
Ww: He’s dead. He’ll still be dead. The only difference is I’ll—I mean, our organization will be rich.
Michael Lonie: Yeah, but how about Howard Carter and –
Ww: Okay, now that that’s settled. We just need to go out and start moving stuff into the Tardis.
(wronwright rubs his hands together, satisfied. Just then paco steps out of the bathroom)
ww: paco, where have you been? You’ve missed my discussion of our Action Plan.
Paco: Oh, so sorry about that. I went home this weekend. Mom made my favorite, soup beans and cornbread. You know, normally I like her soup beans. But I really wish I didn’t eat that whole onion cause –
Ww: Okay, fine. Let’s move gentlemen. The oxygen won’t lost forever.
(paco reaches for the cord. Wronwright catches it before he pulls it).
Ww: What. Are. You. Doing?
Paco: What? Me?
Ww: Yes. You.
Paco: Flushing the toilet. Believe me, I need to pull that cord.
Ww: paco.
Ww:
Ww: This cord.
Ww: Is not the cord to the toilet.
Paco: No?
Ww: No. It’s the chronometer activator. It activates the Tardis.
Paco: Really?
Ww: Yes.
Paco:
Paco: Really?
Ww: Yes. Really.
Paco: Huh. Whaddaknow.
(Stoop Davy Dave walks out of the bathroom)
SDD: Whoa. As bad as yours was paco, I think I beat you.
(wronwright is abhorred at the direction his task has taken)
ww: Yes, great. But the gold awaits us.
Paco: Did you flush?
SDD: Uh, no. I usually let the next person do it.
Paco: You really should flush.
SDD: You think so?
Paco: Yeah. It’s common courtesy. Especially on a Task Force assignment.
SDD: Well, it’s against everything I believe in. But okay.
ww: What? No. Noooooooooooooooooooo. The gold!
Posted by wronwright on 2008 02 26 at 05:44 PM • permalink
Princess Cate is heading up the wrong committee in the Krud Think-A-Rama (love that term!). With her environmental skills, she should be upstaging the baldy one. Single handedly, she brought in a domestic greenification project at her new domicile for around 1.5 megabucks. Now that’s expertise to die for! Let her use her rhetorical skills to the full in lecturing us Gaia destroyers on just how to do it.
Now we see the hidden agenda of Rudd and it is far worse than even we could have expected.
KRudd and his devil dodging, Jesus pleasing Bappo (don’t believe in sex cause it leads to dancing) mate Tim Costello are fed up with working families being too crook in the guts after a big Saturday night on the piss to front up for Church on Sunday, (or worse, turning up at church and dropping onion and VB bombs that tend to clear the pews before the plate goes around), so they reckon they’re gunna get us orf the piss
Good luck wowsers !
Ideas summit ? More like giving us more reasons to want to feed them to the crocs.
First they took our guns, then they shut the pubs…
Rum rebellion anyone ?
A business idea. Ms Blanchett’s debt-wracked theatre company could produce a play titled ‘Kevni from Kyoto to Sorry’.
The final scene featuring Ms Blanchett’s appointment to her new role as creative director of the gabfest. Where she enters stage left to rapturous applause.
Tickets would be sold in books through public schools, unions, Aboriginal reserves, ALP branches, the many left wing blogs and institutions of higher learning. Thereby guaranteeing packed houses.
A lucky ticket seller could be rewarded with free entry to the play’s sequel titled ‘from sorry to really sorry – the sad demise of the Rudd Government’
Surely the left would support such a play of historic significance. Cate could bask in the reflected glory, and help keep the company beak above water. All at no expense to the tax payer.
“Towards a Creative Australia”?? No problem! Expect that particular discussion group to be extraordinarily “creative” when it comes to finding new ways to tap the taxpayer for funding to feed the voracious appetites that Artistes and their Arts have for public funds.And courtesy of Cate,the Sydney Theatre Company will be on pole position when the cash starts to flow into their begging bowls.
Which means, as Jerry Seinfeld explained about actors and actresses, someone gives her a script she didn’t write, tells her how to read it, tells her where to stand and what to do. And suddenly she’s a genius.
Of course, you can be an actor/actress and still be clever. But the precedents are few and far between.
Fair suck of the celebrity. You gotta feel for the guy who’ll be cleaning up the soiled tissues after this wankfest.
How long until Kim il Rudd is filling the MCG with dancing school children to celebrate his inauguration and shooting 23 at golf?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 26 at 07:34 PM • permalink
*slow measured footsteps approach. . . . . . . . *
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2008 02 26 at 08:13 PM • permalink
- How do you think the teachers union would have gone if it had been Howard calling for schools to be swept up in an “ideas summit”?
Emus would have flown out their arses and their heads would have combusted at the mere thought of it.
Yet Krudd says bend over and its chocolate starfish at the staff canteen all around.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 26 at 09:43 PM • permalink
Broken page fixed. People, don’t insert long lines of unbroken (by spaces) characters like that.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 02 26 at 11:07 PM • permalink
A bloke at work, who is smitten by Blanchett reckons he “would dig up 40 miles of sewer pipe just to see one of her turds float past”
That’s kind of how I feel about Kate Beckinsale. Except I’d crawl naked over twenty miles of broken glass to sniff the tire tracks of the laundry truck that took away her soiled undies.
Blanchett shouldn’t be too generous; she needs some ideas herself. For one, how to reverse a ten per cent decline in subscriptions at the debt-wracked theatre company she bought.
And she apparently promised to make the theatre green. That can’t be helping the bottom line.
Although it’s a nice metaphor for what she and Rudd plan to do to the country.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2008 02 26 at 11:26 PM • permalink
Julia is combining two of her portfolios and socially including school children in the Wankfest
great, we’re going back to that 70’s yoof culture fetish again, listening to teenagers spout cliches and smile and clap like they’re fucking oracles.
Posted by daddy dave on 2008 02 26 at 11:32 PM • permalink
The worst thing about the appointment of Blanchett is that it confirms many long held stereotypes of Australian women: Urine drinking, jet-setters who play make believe for foreigners money.
I would like to remind the foreign readers of Timblair.net, that not all Aussie sheilas are jet-setters.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 26 at 11:48 PM • permalink
Well, I for one resent the population as a whole being represented by only one woman. And an actress at that.
If it’s good enough for Chairman Rudd to use his Deputy, Julia Gillard, as the official flak catcher – Gillard defends – and to sic her on to his critics,** then it’s good enough to have more than one female non-politician chairing a discussion group.
The summit will in any case come to naught, particularly with not many women involved, and will simply issue a declaration of what they think that they thought that they ought to report.
__________** BTW, does anyone else have the impression that Kev perhaps makes a habit of hiding behind a woman’s skirts (or pants, perhaps, in Julia’s case?
To think that the Australian federal cabinet I consumed with a pantomime. I’ve always thought Aussies made of sterner stuff.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 27 at 12:04 AM • permalink
#68 Infidel, indeed. I rather admire the stoic wirey toughness I associate with Australian women … or maybe they just don’t like me 🙂
I believe it comes from the first fleet and necessity of survival.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 27 at 12:12 AM • permalink
A think-a-thon
A nice-tits-a-thon
A coke-a-thon
A what-a-thon
A thong-along
A long thong-along
..with a songI could go on’n’ong
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 02 27 at 12:18 AM • permalink
- Summit lovin’ had me a blast
Summit lovin’, happened so fast
I met a girl unshaved for me
I met a boy, left as can beSummit days driftin’ away,
To uh-oh all those summit nightsWell uh well uh well uh hnnghh
Tell me more, tell me more,
Did you get very far?
Tell me more, tell me more,
Like, did you ban the car?Uh huh… Uh huh…. Uh huh…
It turned colder, that’s where it ends – so I told Gore we’d still be friends…
Then we made our carbon voooooow – wonder what he’s burning now
Summit dreams ripped at the seams, but oh, those summit nights……
#73 – It turned colder, that’s where it ends – so I told Gore we’d still be friends…
Shit on a stick, that’s funny! Can’t wait for the Summit Megamix!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 27 at 12:32 AM • permalink
I love how the ABC et alia are reporting that the involvement of Tim Fischer, Warwick Smith and Tim Costello demonstrates the “bipartisan” nature of WombleFest 2020.
Fischer was long ago lulled into believing the legend of his own niceness. There followed numerous instances of an increasingly common phenomenon: the conservative who backs the left-liberal cause for the adulation this brings from the Latte Set. Besides Malcolm Fraser, see also Joe Hockey, who reminds me of what Kurt Russell’s Wyatt Earp tells Ed Masterton in Tombstone:
This is a harsh land, Ed.
It doesn’t suffer fools.
I’m not a fool, Wyatt.
No, you’re not.
But you’re not a deliberate man, Ed.
I don’t sense that about you.
You’re too affable.
In other words, stay out of the fight, Mr Sunrise Rolly Polly.
Tim Costello’s only meaningful association with any non-Labor cause is his fraternal relationship to the former Treasurer. Smith was a favourite of the old Hawke-Keating frontbench. I can still remember Keating telling him in Question Time, “now we like you Warwick.” If you think part of the reason why was that Smith never landed a glove on one of them and rarely -aggressively – tried, you’d be right.
The whole thing is a ridiculous farce.
In a few short weeks, Mr Rudd’s 2020 Summit will answer the age old question: Does wanking lead to blindness?
In my experience, yes. But conversely it does seem to improve the hearing.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 27 at 12:50 AM • permalink
Speaking of the movie business, Paco Enterprises latest offering seems to have had a somewhat inauspicious debut:
Subtitling fiasco turns film into a comedy of errors
It was promoted as a chance for the deaf and hard of hearing to enjoy a free film under the stars, but a captioning debacle turned it into an embarrassment for Ryde Council in Australia.
Saturday night’s screening of The Queen at North Ryde Oval became a comedy of errors thanks to subtitles either written by somebody with no comprehension of English or affected by an out-of-control spellcheck.
(…)
When a character spoke about Mr Blair being “educated at Fettes”, it appeared on screen as “educated the fattest”. “Did you vote?” flashed up as “Dead in a boat?”. The observation that “every newspaper proprietor has blood on his hands today” became “every newspaper proprietor has blown in his hands today”.
When Prince Philip spoke of how “people removed their hats” as he drove past, it became “people removed their heads”. “Buckingham Palace” appeared several times as “Burking in Paris”.
(…)
It is unclear where the offending DVD came from. Outdoor Movies Australia, which staged the screening, said it was responsible only for the screen, projection and sound and directed inquiries to Ryde Council.
Oh, I think think we know…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 27 at 01:05 AM • permalink
NO! I was NOT assigned captioning duties!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 27 at 01:07 AM • permalink
- # 63
That’s kind of how I feel about Kate Beckinsale. Except I’d crawl naked over twenty miles of broken glass to sniff the tire tracks of the laundry truck that took away her soiled undies.That’s kind of the way I feel about Claire Forlani. Except I’d swim 20 miles through a river of faecal matter in Pakistan just to suck the cock of a man who once had sex with her….and I’m a straight man.
#39- Reminds me of an occasion when I was lollygagging around the arrival hall at Brisbane Airport with a minion. looking for some shifty tinted types we could pick on because of their ethnicity when some entertainerette du’ jour whose name escapes me came sauntering past, which caused said underling to mutter to me “fuck me, i’d use her shit for toothpaste”– an amusing if most unsanitary method of maintaining oral hygiene.
Has it occurred to any of the complainers that Kevni is applying personal experience to the selection process? Seeing as he’s never gotten a word in edgeways at home with one overweight Code Pink cutie, he figures any more than one sheila on the slection panel would cause the yabber to go for a month rather than a weekend, and that’d just be to sort out who’s sitting where- Kev’s got a few junkets vital overseas trips to bugger off on after all.
I for one would pay my own way to attend if Professor Piehole of Perth was to be a guest spruiker- after his performance last night on Insight he’s the greatest comedy genius since Lenny Bruce; his ranting about “….secure green enclaves for millionaires surrounded by Mad Max suburbs…” had me nearly doing a Cate Blanchett in my trousers- the bastard’s funnier than watching Ren and Stimpy on nitrous.
In an effort to spread the pre-summit fever, the Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, said on Sunday that all primary and secondary schools would be invited to host their own summits before the Canberra event.
Invited? It won’t be an invitation but a compulsion, just as it was for Rudd’s apology speech. Expect schools to be ordered to broadcast Rudd’s 2020 speech too.
Not even Whitlam’s crazy crowd tried this stunt. They believed they could install a socialist system by fair and democratic means. Gillard and 21st century Labor prefers the methods of Mao – indocrination, propaganda and control of the media.
#82 Habib are you referring to
“Peter Newman is an Australian academic and planner who invented the term ‘automobile dependence’ to describe how we have created cities where we have to drive everywhere.”?
If his claim to fame is the produsage of the “term ‘automobile dependence” htf could they possibly call that program Insight?
His initial choice “car crazy” was considered too uncouth.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 27 at 02:05 AM • permalink
#85, C.L., was wondering the same thing myself. If it had been John Howard, there would have been media outrage by now, with screeds of print and hours of ABC programming devoted to “Fascist John”.
And thank you for reminding posters that this is a public forum. It may not only be ladies who are offended by some of the comments and words occasionally used here.
#87- That’s him, crazier than a bedbug, and totally ignorant of the irony of hectoring others about their choice to live in outer suburbs and consume gobs of fossil fuel getting to and from work/shop/play while broadcasting by sattelite link from N’Yorleans- a bit of a hike from his tenure at Perth U. No doubt he’s giving Mayor Ray some handy hints on urban renewal- the Big Easy should be a hoot when they’ve finished rebuilding- I’m thinking Warsaw circa ‘62 with humidity and black people. Also mirth-inducing was a bit where some idiot fro mPlanning and Development in Melbourne was getting urban renewal and infrastructure advice from the mayor of Bogota. I could’ve saved them the airfare and consultancy- give all the peons cocaleaf to chomp on, and make sure your government is even more corrupt and kleptcratic than it is currently, so no-one cna afford a car, airconditioner or abode more extensive than three sheets of corrugated iron.
Three more years of this.
damo, I think that qualifies as TMI Of The Year.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 02 27 at 02:51 AM • permalink
That would be the comment I linked to—but having read comment #82, I’d say we have a runner up. Guys, give yourselves a hand.
I meant applause, not that kind of—oh never mind.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 02 27 at 02:53 AM • permalink
- Why is there now a need for the Krudd lovefest?
The above seems to have answered all the questions.
Just cancel the Krudd lovefest, and use the above suggestions.
Problems solved, money saved.
I am sure the above will now seek to solve any future problems Krudd & Co. create.
Labor are great ones at creating problems.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 27 at 02:53 AM • permalink
I’ve heard both of his “TMIs” (and similar) in referrence to Michelle Pfeiffer.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 27 at 02:59 AM • permalink
I also seem to recall hearing those on a Richard Pryor record.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 02 27 at 03:03 AM • permalink
Another charmer Ive heard is “Id crawl on my belly over a mile of broken glass just to stick matches in her shit”.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 27 at 03:08 AM • permalink
#98 I’m guessing the blokes who use these phrases resemble Doughnut Boy.
The Gong looks bang-on for builders It’s like bees to a honey pot, says one industry participant of property developers’ attraction to Wollongong.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 27 at 03:31 AM • permalink
I’m not sure how the green Orion women fit in. I’m still waiting for the afteraction.
Afteraction? Hey, there wasn’t even any action involving green Orion women! Are you meaning to tell me there was supposed to be? That wasn’t part of the assignment as I received it…surely nobody would be degenerate enough to mess with a fellow VRWCer’s job instructions? *stares at nobody in particular*
I’d give up beer for her. Too far?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 02 27 at 04:11 AM • permalink
#99- Just saw footage on ABC news- I note his protection detail from WA plod didn’t leap to his defence, in fact seemed to make well sure the looney wasn’t tooled up until putting the bag on him.
Looks like bent/inept/cop-bashing Labor leaders don’t exactly attract fanatical devotion and selfless defence from Old Bill.
Billy Hughes received similar assistance.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 02 27 at 06:08 AM • permalink
Also I believe Artie Caldwell; somehow I doubt too many Federal coppers would’ve stopped one for Hawkie or Keating, likewise for lu Kewen- maybe he’d better enlist a detail from this loyal source.
- In an effort to spread the pre-summit fever, the Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, said on Sunday that all primary and secondary schools would be invited to host their own summits before the Canberra event.
So now you have to encourage kids to have a summit in order to get them to think up bright ideas for our future …
like stupid summits?
It’s all getting to be a bit circular.
So far it’s back to the seventies and “let’s hear it from the women?”
They could save a fortune by getting any ideas emailed in from the 1000; cancel the summit now, before it’s too late!
Hasn’t taken long the distant gaze of the summiteers to turn to more immediate pet issues – binge drinking.
Could be a long two days for K Rudd
#113- I reckon if I was trapped with Tim Costello and 997 assorted other ratbags, dingbats, fruitcups, gladhanders, timeservers, self promoters, rent seekers, yahoos and Cate “One Girl One Cup” Blanchett I’d be on the gas big time, and if rev Tim tried to shut the bar he’d have my size 9 cherry red in his bollocks quicker than you could say “travel allowance”.
Bingeing on the piss would be the least harmful outcome of this blatherfest.
#113 all the leftards I know (and that’s way too many)seem to think the Ruddenburg rally is about whatever their particular hobbyhorse is.
It’ll be tears before bedtime is all I’m saying…
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 27 at 08:22 AM • permalink
They could save a fortune by getting any ideas emailed in from the 1000; cancel the summit now, before it’s too late!
Hmm. Aren’t the illustrious Joe Ordinarys paying their own freight? You’re still right. Gabfest.
#115
It’ll be tears before bedtime is all I’m saying…
eeniemeenie, it’ll serve them right.
O/T
I got my new car today.
#116 mmmmmmmmm… new car smell /drool]
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 02 27 at 08:33 AM • permalink
- Here’s an idea for the summit. Let the tossers present their “grand plans”, then fence off Canberra and see if they can make it work.
After all they are the best and brightest aren’t they?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2008 02 27 at 08:49 AM • permalink
#115- Well it sure won’t be beers before bedtime (or an eye-opener in the morning either) now Fearless Leader lu Kewen has gotten on board with Reverend Tim, despite the fact that liquor licensing is a state metter, with some local government controls- the only thing the Feds have to do with booze is labelling requirments and ripping great chunks of cash out of the trade through excise, a racket that makes the likes of Al Capone and Charlie Luciano seem like schoolyard lunchmoney stanover artists in comparison.
I wonder what the Howard Battlers who swung behind the Great Wowser now think of their choice, with Kommisar Kev wanting them off the piss and home in bed before Lateline‘s closing credits start to roll? What did they expect? The smary little waxgobbler would say anything to slither into the hot seat, but once there was never going to let the chance to inflict some good old fashioned Christian Socialist reform on the heathen electorate.
WTF did they expect, with his pious posturing and obvious lack of fun in his own life- “Kegs” Ruddster to try to out-do Hawkie as the biggest piss artist and pants man ever to lead the ALP?
Wait ‘til he and his mate Rev Tim (helped by the new dingbat in the senate from SA, and the Family First peanut) get to work on all your other dirty little pleasures- it’ll be no more plonk, porn, pokies, puff, punting, pervie publications, PBS provided priaprism pills or producing plumes of particularised petrol for pleasure for that matter, get ready for the No Fun Time, just like the old Soviet Union but without Stolichnaya.
Whoopie- the next person I meet who admits to electing these fuckwads will be set on fire (while I can still get fuel with an octane rating higher than Wayne Swam’s IQ).
Seriously impressed with the way the WA wallopers stood back and allowed the ratbag enough time to do some serious damage to Our Revered Premier. All in vain, alas.
Damn shame the attacker was a whale loving wanker and not some enraged cab driving jihadi demanding a 20% tip, a prayer room at the local caff and wielding a scimitar.
Well done, lads. Standing back will ensure you never get your pic in the papers and is a sure track to your retirement pension.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2008 02 27 at 09:17 AM • permalink
Outstanding rant, Habib. *standing applause*
Top credits for “smarmy little waxgobbler” and kudos for the serial alliteration.
No wonder I love this blog.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2008 02 27 at 09:24 AM • permalink
That wasn’t part of the assignment as I received it…surely nobody would be degenerate enough to mess with a fellow VRWCer’s job instructions?
You’ll have to ask wronwright, PW; he’s in charge of operations. I’m just a Loyal Henchman, 3rd Class.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 02 27 at 10:26 AM • permalink
Yes, the Proles should never be allowed to binge drink.
You might end up going to a strip club.
And making a bloody fool of yourself and being thrown out.
And worst of all, remembering none of it.
That’s if you define “binge drinking” as having two pots.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 02 27 at 02:58 PM • permalink
I hoping others start to push their pet issues. It will be chaotic. The whole point of grand plans for the next 12 years is that you don’t have do anything about them. But when they start talking about issues such as binge drinking, the conference is taking over the role of government. One of these groups will propose something that is both short term in its execution and against Labor’s wishes. What then? What if it’s Cate?
CATE BLANCHETT will join the former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer and the vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Glyn Davis, on the steering committee of the Federal Government’s Australia 2020 Summit.
Steering committee, eh? Wonder how that’s going to work out?