People you don't want on your side, part #2.
AAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHH!!
Okay, so I first grew kind of perturbed when I saw that Jeffed was on-side with the State government about the Commonwealth Games Village . Can you fucking cop that the man whose chin wobbled after the 1999 election defeat more than John Candy in a spa bath said this ?:
"Many people, including the volunteers and the State Government, are working their backsides off for the Games. The only group being divisive is the ACGA. Maybe they should start supporting the Games and stop sniping."
Not that Hymie wouldn't appreciate the back-up, but it's a bit weird isn't it? Like when your boyfriend's ex suddenly wants to get chummy with you and swap bras and lipsticks and stuff. You're glad for the peace but also wary of a sudden judo chop to the throat. Know what I mean?
I was one of the many great unwashed who despised Jeff Kennett. Even my mother owned a 'Cunnett is a Kent' t-shirt at one stage. Being the raffish sort, I favoured one of those South Park parody hoodies which said: 'Oh my, good! They killed Kennett - the bastard.'
You see how clever and not in any way undergraduate humour that is?
Now he's getting all sniffy about the Cornelia Rau thing and joining the chorus for a public inquiry . Knowing Jeffed (as I do), there's no way he'd be pulling this sort of stunt without his own best interests at heart. He's got to be in it to make the PM crumble, at which point he'll swan in and announce his intention to join Federal politics. Ugh. It doesn't bear thinking about.
In the meantime - should we really be linking arms and making the hippy chants with the man whose 'Don't Blame Me, I Didn't Vote For Him' mugs outsold 'Fat, Fucked and 50' at my local Guess What? Will he be manning the chai tent at the next Friends of the Earth boot sale?
It makes me feel funny. And not in a nice, sit-on-the-washing-machine-on-spin-cycle way.
972 days til the next election.
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Lindsayism has wet dreams about being this clever. Marry me, sweetheart...
imagine my shock when he showed up at my PFLAG meeting yesterday and cried about his the adversity faced by his gay dog.
Can you settle something for me? Is it true that Kennet put a bid in to host the Eurovision Contest at Jeff's Shed for one year and people actually had to point out that Melbourne wasn't in Europe?
He thought PFLAG was Private Fanciers of Lhasa Apsos and Greyhounds. Imagine his embarrassment! He was so ready to cry anyway.
Either that or he was up for Playing Footsies with a Lady from an Art Gallery. Again. In-jokes are so in right now.
When I was ten my parents pinned a 'Don't get Jeffed, Get Unionised' badge on me. I had absolutely no idea what it meant, but when they sent me to a private school the next year, it seemed to drive the teachers absolutely mental. ROCK.
I will probably commit suicide after defending Kennett but I am pretty sure he was responsible for beyondblue - the national depression initiative.
For people with depression, it's a useful site.
Kennett was just hired to be the chairman/president of Beyond Blue after some other people who actually give a fuck started it. I think he's more just involved in the publicity/spokesman side of things. But it doesn't have anything to do with schizophrenia so the Cornelia Rau thing is actually none of his business.
As soon as his opinion on the Games Village thing popped up I thought "the fucker's out to make himself a public figure again". So yeah, it feels to me as well like his motivation is to embarrass and undermine Howard (the "Little Cunt") before trying to make a move into federal politics as part of the Costello cabal. This is the man who privatised prisons and covered up their failings and abuses, and also took away our rights to appeal against most government/bureaucratic decisions. He couldn't give a fuck about systemic inhumanity and corruption, but I'm sure he'd be right into swapping bras and lippy.
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Wasn't jeff Kennet actually the cause of a lot of depression when he was Premier?
You know what? I'm all for it if he wants to take Howard on... Kennett is more superficially smarmy than Howard, so he'll get away with less. Howard has a licence to kill because somehow he's sold himself as having values to the ignorant public. ...NO ONE is gonna believe that about Kennett. Just by looking at him you know he'd bone your daughter if he could and so people will keep him on a shorter leash.
If it takes someone like Kennett to get rid of someone like Howard... then I say let's start clearing him a path.
Baby steps people... baby steps.
Ben.
I know exactly what you mean. It's all a bit weird and creepy and he's definitely up to something.
He's thrown the tablets away again.
- dt
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