Thanks...but no thanks.
*ring ring*
'The doctor is in.'
'Brendan, John here.'
'Who?'
'John Howard. John Winston Howard. The tracky spacky. Remember?'
'..............'
'Listen, I know you've been going through a bit of a rough trot and I wanted to call you up and let you know I've got your back.'
'.............................'
'I mean it. I understand times are tough and I will do everything I can, in a quiet way, to help you.'
'.............................'
'It's like Ice T says, 'my gang's my family, it's all that I have/I'm a star, on the wall's my autograph'. You know?'
'.............................'
'Hello?'
'Er... Senor Nelson not here.'
'What?'
'El Doctor Nelson no está aquí. Llamada otra vez más adelante.'
'Brendan, is that you putting on a funny voice?'
'Apesadumbrado, no entiendo. No hay el Doctor Nelson. Llamada otra vez más adelante!'
'Brendan...'
'CCHHHHHH BAD LINE CCCCCHHHHHHHHH'
'................................'
'Thank you for calling Telstra. Our operators are currently experiencing a higher than usual demand and you may be placed in a queue. We will endeavour to answer your call as soon as possible.'
'...................'
'.....................'
'...................'
'.....................'
'...................'
'.....................'
'Brendan, I can hear you breathing.'
*click*
'...............................'
'...............................'
'I can wait a long time, you know.'
'...............................'
'Hello?'
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My head still hurts.
"wah wah wah"
Please enjoy some Micallef:
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Tuesday April 15, 12:22 PM
Sambora charged with child endangerment
Rocker Richie Sambora is to face charges of drunken driving and child endangerment stemming from his March 25 arrest, according to reports from a source close to the case.
Sambora, 48, was arrested in southern California after police spotted him driving unsteadily in a Hummer. In the car was Sambora's girlfriend, Jenn Mallini, his daughter, Ava, 10, whose mother is Sambora's ex-wife Heather Locklear, and her teenage cousin.
If the Bon Jovi guitarist is found guilty of both charges, a jail sentence is likely, legal experts say.
Sambora's tentative arraignment is set for May 7.
"Although, I suppose he did do a good job last time ..."
High-larious!
what about our new gg?
man, reading her life story .... she seems to have and had it all....
let's see, she has the looks of tippi hedren circa 1963 & 2008 respectively, is married to an artist, has acted as "quentin warrior princess" for the women's movement , female law practitioners, human rights and eeo, children etc, she has 5 kids & 5 grandkids.....
there's gotta be a bad thing about her, no matter how tiny, don't you think?
hmmm ... maybe she barracks for collingwood
He oversaw the largest increase in immigration in Australias history.
He linked welfare payments to CPI for the first time ever.
Blocked the privatisation of the Snowy.
Record low unemployment.
reduced homelessness.
Developed the National Water Plan.
Instigated NT intervention to curtail Aboriginal child abuse and poverty.
Introduced unprecedented gun control measures.
Gave Marieke a job on the tellie.
Governments never give you everything you want, this has been the case throughout history. You people are as unlikely to recognise Howards strengths as you are likely to highlight Rudds weaknesses. Im sure most of you consider yourself educated smart people, yet you're incapable of objectivity.
They say that if your not a socialist by 20 you have no heart, and if your not a conservative by 40 you have no brain.
JWH locked up immigrants with no trial
JWH forced welfare recipients onto work for the dole (also, I could go on and on and on about how CPI bears no resemlance to the cost of living)
JWH manipulated the stats to show low unemployment
JWH reduced homelessness... (????... I have no idea where to start on that one!)
JWH couldn't finish negotiating (bribing the States?) the National Water Plan
JWH arranged for the invasion of the NT by formaldahyde-contaminated containers
JWH shat himself and bought a flak jacket
... Ms Fits got herself employed due to her superior skills and wit.
Now, Ingrid, go back to www.Iwantto rootJWH.com, where you obviously came from...
P.S. your real name isn't Janette, is it?
But on a more intellectual level - Howard coasted on Labor reforms but sqandered all that in the quest to "get" the working class in the neck.
Most of your "triumphs" are disputable as Howard achievements. Frankly he might have been out on his ear as the squirming embarassment he was if that loony in Tassie hadn't gone on a rampage in Port Arthur giving him a motherhood issue to use to look like a leader.
I'm not a basketweaver but Howard (like Bush) was/is beyond the pale. As stated somewhere (I don't recall offhand) "the conservative agenda has gone as far as is electorally viable". He was not a conservative he was a radical of the right.
Get with the program Ingrid! Rebuild your party into a viable alternative. Ten years from now Labor will be stinking up the place as bad as it currently is in NSW. We've got a tweedle dumb we need a tweedle dumber.
"THE incomes of the nation's poorest households rose more dramatically than those of the richest Australians in the final years of the Howard government, buoyed by rising wages and bulging welfare payments."
http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,23420598-462,00.html
No?
Anyway, the "we" of this blog is substantially erroded since Ms Fits' blog-award win. The influx of embarrassingly earnest Age Online readers and their cliched, obvious comments is awful.
Go back to Sam and the City, guys.
Im objective, as opposed to an hysterical supporter.
I agree that Keating was a better Prime Minister than Howard, and that Keating deserved credit for our prosperity under Howard. I didn't vote for Latham, (you would have to be nuts), but i voted for Rudd because i felt that Howard went too far on IR and that Rudd was conservative enough not to be irresponsible and pander to the left.
Its people like me who put this Government in, and people like me who will oust him if he "fucks it up".
I refer you, if I may, to figure 1 in this document, which shows clearly that the most rapid immigration increase in recent history was between 1985 and 1990, which took the annual figure above 160,000 per annum
He linked welfare payments to CPI for the first time ever.
Yes, after making welfare payments more difficult to qualify for than ever before. at a time when Australia's economy was booming
Blocked the privatisation of the Snowy.
An environmentally disastrous project from the outset, which currently provides little benefit to consumers of electricity or other stakeholders in the river.
Record low unemployment.
An obvious anomaly based predominantly on the baby boomers reaching retirement age and the subsequent shortage of workers
reduced homelessness.
All I can say is... Huh? Record homelessness in the capital cities, over one hundred thousand homeless every night, record rent increases and record low vacancy rates do not add up to more housed people.
Developed the National Water Plan.
After years of climate change denial when action was required
Instigated NT intervention to curtail Aboriginal child abuse and poverty.
Sent the army in to solve domestic policy issues, once again asserting the "Father knows best" attitude that has seen these communities languish
Introduced unprecedented gun control measures.
Following a massacre which has never been in a court room. And another a federal incursion into State jurisdiction.
Gave Marieke a job on the tellie.
I'm pretty sure the ABC hires whomever they choose, and are not subject to the Prime Minister's whims about who appears on radio or television.
Honestly, is that the best you can do to describe the legacy of the Liberal Party?
This, all rolled into possibly the most mean spirited, vindictive, deceptive and authoritarian government in Australia's history.
Sorry, but I'm with the majority of Australians on this one.
and it has to be said a swinging voter, who swings anywhere beyond the spread of labor/greens/democrats, is pretty much a tool in my view. where's the integrity?
Am I the only one tired of reading ad hominem arguments about people's spelling ability? Honesly Scal, there was so much in Ingrid's comment to counter (cue TLS). What benefit did you see in pointing out a grammatical error?
Some people just can't spell. And sometimes, people type quickly and occasionally forget to differentiate between 'your' and 'you're'. It doesn't make them stupid.
Seriously, it's the most annoying rebuttal I've ever seen employed because it plummets any debate into pettiness. Yet it continues unabated! Egads.
Help from the Dessicated Coconut is the last thing Nelson needs.
The only thing that will save Nelson is if Turnbull is shrewed enough not to want the poisoned chalice till after the next election. Does anyone seriously think that the Libs can win the next election? (If so how much would you like to bet?)
Brendan: Alright, john I'm still here as well, what do you want?
JWH: That's better; now remember I'm still your papa bladder eyes
Brendan: Yes papa
JWH: I thinking about making a come back
But pointing out grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors in a comment is only remotely justified in response to one doing the same.
Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart;
to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.
-Francois Guisot (1787-1874)
This was in connection to the debate on whether France should remain a monarchy or become a republic. It was plagiarised much later by Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) into:
Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart;
to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.
Neither of these suggests that becoming a conservative was any kind of measure of intelligence, or, indeed an inevitability. Both merely suggest that if, in the heady days of youth, one was not even briefly swayed by the general philosophy that "everyone deserves a fair go without a ruling class dictating policy for their own benefit" may be a heartless bastard.
And also, to think that any dogmatic political movement can hold all the answers is probably foolish.
But people who say "your" when they mean "you're" are stupid. It's been proven in labs.
I was struck by the irony.
Does anyone remember The Glasshouse?
Hahaha - Fantastic - especially/even without the sound.
Is it worse when they say it than when they type it?
How can you tell?
What if they say "yore" when they mean "yaw"?
If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.
- Winston Churchill
Any man who is not... a socialist before he is 40 has no heart.
Any man who is still a socialist after he is 40 has no head.
- Wendell L. Willkie (quoted by Richard Norton Smith)
one who is not a socialist at 20 has no heart,
and one who remains a socialist at 40 has no head.
(George Bernard Shaw)
The man who is not a socialist at 20 has no heart,
but if he is still a socialist at 40 he has no head.
- Aristide Briand (1862 - 1932)
[French premier and former socialist]
A man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart,
and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.
William Casey [director of the CIA]
Anyone who is not a socialist at 16 has no heart,
but anyone who still is at 32 has no mind.
- Woodrow Wilson
He who is not a Socialist at 19, has no heart.
He who is still a Socialist at 30, has no brain.
- Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1896)
A 20-year-old who is not a Socialist has no heart,
but a 30-year-old who is still a Socialist has no brains.
Georges Clemenceau [another French Premier and former socialist]
A man who is not a liberal at 16 has no heart;
a man who is not a conservative at 60 has no head.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Not to be a socialist at 20 is proof of want of heart;
to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.
- Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929)
Any man who is under 30 and is not a Liberal has no heart; and
any man who is over 30 and not a Conservative has no brains.
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Considering he was in the army from age fourteen, and came from a privileged family, he never showed any sign of being other than staunchly conservative his entire life.
Also, big ups to Winnie for fucking up the Gallipoli campaign and sending hundreds of young volunteers to their certain death.
"Am I the only one tired of reading ad hominem arguments about people's spelling ability"
It's often the only standpoint left they can defend.
The Last Scientician said of Winston Churchill
"Considering he was in the army from age fourteen, and came from a privileged family, he never showed any sign of being other than staunchly conservative his entire life."
Well, he wasn't always a Conservative, holding portfolios in several Liberal governments during which time:
• in 1908 he introduced the Trade Boards Bill setting up the first minimum wages in Britain
• in 1909 he set up Labour Exchanges to help unemployed people find work.
• he helped draft the first unemployment pension legislation, the National Insurance Act of 1911.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
I'm sorry, but life's a lot more complex than you'd imagine looking at it through the prism of the Dialectic.
However, massacres like the one he engineered in the Dardanelles during the first World War probably helped drive more people toward socialism than any pamphleteering or recruitment drive ever could.
• what possible difference would come from having a Republic if the Head of State is not elected?
• what possible benefit would come from having an elected Head of State when we already have an elected Head of Government?
These are the sorts of questions you’ll be asked by tee-totallers as you get close to the referendum, and if you cannot answer them, you’re stuffed.
As regards the difference in having an elected Head of State when you also have separately have an elected Head of Government, see under 'Zimbabwe' or 'Pakistan'.
Why change anything but titles if nothing has gone wrong yet?
And I'm all like, damn, that was a weird thing to say - how did you do those parentheses?
And they're like, answer the question, bitch.
And I'm like, that was uncalled for.
"Why change anything but titles if nothing has gone wrong yet?"
Well, indeed, why change anything at all if nothing has gone wrong yet?
I think it's because the leading lights of the republican push all rather fancy themselves as Teh President. You know, Turnbull, Beazley, etc.
When President Martin Ferguson's plane touches down at Orly, Heathrow or JFK, or when you step through the doors of the Oval Office, he'll want to be announced as “The President of Australia” - the Governor General, on the other hand, gets 15 minutes with some White House protocol officer before being shown the Rose Garden and finally escorted to a consular LTD to take him back to his hotel.
“Australia’s Governor what?”
“Governor General, Mr President. He kinda stands in for the Queen of England at ribbon-cutting ceremonies and funerals and the like.”
“Oh, okay. Show him in. But come back into the office with ‘an urgent meeting’ for me after about ten minutes, okay.”
“Sure thing, Mr President.”
"Through its state-controlled media, China has called US Congressional leader Nancy Pelosi "disgusting" and "detested", while the Dalai Lama has been branded a lying "wolf with the face of a human and the heart of a beast".
http://news.smh.com.au/chinas-propaganda-on-tibet-a-verbal-blast-from-the-past/20080417-26rd.html
Could this be Kevin's moderating influence?
Had it been NSW Labor, though, Polosi by now would have been likely shot and the Dalai Lama's development application for an in-ground swimming pool would have a consent approval condition requiring a donation to the TWU's social fund of about $750,000.
On a side note, is JWH doing the Temptation of the Right thing? He seems to be globe hopping and picking up prizes for having been a right wing twat. First there's the salad bowl, then there's the cash. He'll be playing for cars next. Maybe one of those VWs convertibles german officers had in WW2?
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