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147: Derek – thanks for the headsup on that. I still think it’s dodgy (for the reasons outlined in 132 – hey, I’ve been trained to close read documents), but I’m willing to assume it was some smarta*se sub rather than an order from Lord Voldemurdoch.
VoterBoy – given that the ‘gay’ headline didn’t make it to the treeware version I suspect it was some juvenile sub who wanted to wind us all up. Maybe Tabitha has a gig at News Ltd? Anyway, it worked, on the wind up front anyway.
Meanwhile, out there in the RW, Rudd looks better by the second and el rodente looks more and more like a desperate, spiteful old goose who’s had his day but won’t let go. Oh how the cabinet must wish they had some courage! How tip must long for a heart! How Alex must long for linguistic gifts!
I can feel a musical coming on.
HH @83 Are those figures for Galaxy 2pp?
I rest my case.
BB 109
Glad to hear it’s all going well – don’t stop now. Got to say though – don’t be an evangelist, remember how annoying it was when some ex smoker smugly told you to give up? UGH
150 – Ashley. Fair enough. I agree with you here. Let’s hope someone outs the sub-editor. (Not that I’m suggesting…)
Centaur-I hope you are not comparing Howard to Alexander the Great! But God its so true. That slithering, putrid maggot has blocked the sun and tried to turn our great country into a Dark Ages Inquisition State where money and religion control all. Let there be light!!
Another Labor day of failure on Sunday remembered
Another failed Labor election campaign in 2 Saturdays to remember
La Nina: yes, 2PP.
Thank god for Kerry O’Brien and Antony Green, the two remaining credible ABC political commentators. Sad to say even Tony Jones has joined the pro Howard bandwagon.
158 LOL love it!
Wow, Morgan bounces around more than a superball.
As predicted: Rudd smear story was nonsense.
… meanwhile in the real world, an angry nation begins to respond to the sad bleats of Denise Sham-I-Am.
http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/dennisshanahan/index.php/theaustralian/comments/ir_policy_one_debate_labor_cant_avoid/
Can you guess which one was mine?
Labor is for intelligent people
Liberal is for braindead trolls like Tabitha, Steven Kaye, Glen etc
Another succesful labotomy
Another manufactured creature.
She’s alive!
Latham was a blockhead. Okay, he provided a clear alternative, but when the PM of 11 years still has an approval rating of >50% it stands to reason that the people don’t really want a clear alternative. Australians are naturally conservative and going in saying you are reallying going to shake things up was politically niave.
Also, Latham masqueraded around pretending to be interested in the job yet all the while in his heart of hearts he hated the party, he hated politics and he hated what is involved with being a successful politician. He basically hated anyone who disagreed with him.
I will admit that I voted for him unashamedly and I wanted him to win as much as the next Labor supporter, but he was a disaster. In fact that whole term in opposition was a disaster (2001-2004). That term is the reason we have to listen to pessimists bang on with the old ‘16 seats is a lot to pick up’ rubbish….
164 HEHEHE.
Labor = LOL
ND: That’s because most voters are stupid.
And its not surprising Latham hated politics. Politics in Australia is a joke.
Both major parties rely on pork barrelling to win, and future policies are non existent.
Latham was an idealist, but unfortunately there is no room for idealism in Australian politics and we are all worse off for it.
165 C007
Beautiful
A poll conducted by the University of Adelaide politics department for ABC Radio gives the following figures for the Senate in SA: ALP 34.4 per cent, Liberal 28.8, Nick Xenophon 24.2, Greens 7.3. When all the numbers were punched into Antony Green’s calculator, the result was two senators each for Labor and Liberal, Xenophon, and a photo-finish for the last spot between the Greens, Xenophon’s running mate Roger Bryson and the third ALP candidate, with the Greens just favoured.
The poll suggests Labor will win the marginal seats of Kingston, Makin and Wakefield, with a good chance of taking Sturt and Boothby as well.
141 Dembo: “uses Democrats press releases as questions to the majors but refusing to mention the Democrats. It’s tres weird.”
Dembo, don’t know if this helps or not, but I attended the one and only “All-Candidate” debate in my electorate last evening, and the only two candidates who failed to show up were the Liberal and the Democrat. Even the micro-party “Give Divorced Fathers a Fair Go” (or something like that) candidate showed up and acquitted himself fairly well on all issues. It’s madness that any Democrat candidate would decide to miss out on free publicity from the newspaper coverage etc.
By the way, sitting Labor member, Sharon Bird, who’s running for her first re-election after replacing the Green’s Michael Organ in ‘04, gave a stellar performance. Organ had all the audience questions on his side (e.g. Tassie Pulp Mill) and still couldn’t lay a glove on Bird. Labor will get 66 to 70% TPP here in Cunningham.
Can we institute a rule that all rhyming couplets must at least rhyme? If possible also with somehing approaching a poetic scan?
Something like:
Liberal plays to fear and greed
While Labor helps those in need
Labor is for misogyny and woman hatred
Liberal is for freedom and chick power
Let’s clear this up. Page 6-7 of the Telegraph runs with the main head running over the two pages – “Defining moment in PM’s sorry saga”. Farr’s “sorry” story is on Page 7 with the kicker head: “Mortgagees don’t rate an apology.” There’s a big pic of Howard and Costello. Page 6 has a big pic of Dani Ecuyer and a panel with the “gay” story: “Hunky sidekicks appeal to the cool – and lazy”. There is no link between the two stories. It’s perfecly normal tabloid layout.
VoterBoy – Dennis really is a tragical, if hysterically amusing, figure. I have developed a short list to id your contribution. I assume it’s not the one suggesting that Rudd is a slimebag.
Is Tabitha Steven Kaye’s alter ego?
Tabitha,
Better hurry, or you will be late for Kindy.
RA – if you want that to scan you need to change ‘helps’ to ‘helpeth’. (Sorry, can’t help myself. Have a serious problem with Iambic Pentameters.)
I endorse your call for doggerel that rhymes.
172 RA
Check out the rules of Haiku:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
Much more satisfactory than a simple rhyme.
172/173 – i prefer the random non rhyming artistry of tabitha.
Mathew Cole are you still there or are you in the kindergarten now?
I disagree with that. IMO, Tony is pretty even-handed.
IMHO, most of the bias in the media stems from the Australian. It sets the tone for much of the day’s discussion of politics, and much of the rest of the media simply regurgitates lines from Shanahan et al.
But let’s not get into another biased-media discussion again… I think we’ve covered that one pretty well!
Am I the only one who thinks Tony Jones is hugely over rated? I don’t think he’s biased, he just thinks he is Edward R Murrow or something. So put on. Thinks he is a heavyweight.
Don’t bookies have to continue offering ridiculously good odds for the Coalition because of the lopsided state of their books. If Labor wins they will be slaughtered, so any money on the Coalition reduces their expected loss, no?
CL @ 175 – c’mon then – money where your mouth is. Is my rancorous oeuvre recognisable? (Although my entry was truncated – they cut out the bit where I referred to Dennis slobbering over Howard like a drunken lech who’s found himself in a girl’s school… Only to be expected, tho.)
Tabitha your attempt at poetry is so droll
Piss off from here you ineffective little troll
Labor for misogyny and progeny’s sake
Liberal for liberty and opportunity’s sake
Beatrix Potter wrote tales of Miss Tabitha Twitchet
While we endure wails from a Liberal troll thicksh*t
Caterpillars twitch
Below furrowed brow
All is not well
Will: LOL LOL LOL
Tabitha you are a troll
Piss off now you Liberal loving mole
Tabitha.
Is your Mummy helping you to write this stuff?
Av it 07 you think you are cool
But you remind me of a sad fool
“Liberal for liberty”…. WTF?… Tabitha, you’re a comedian! Or maybe the 10 joints you’ve had before 10am are kicking in. Don’t they teach you to “say no to drugs” at school?
Sake rhymes with…sake!
Keep trying Tabitha.
LOL!
Isnt this little colonial election fun?!
Ave it!
Tabitha,
Or maybe Grumpy Grandpa Howard is helping you with your lines?
Just saw the Ruddster being mobbed like a rock star. What a guy!
Kool Kevin Rules and so does Golden Gordon over in the UK.
Tabitha and AV it07, if this is the best the young liberals can throw up, then heaven help the future generation.
Labor is for total failure
Liberal = very good really
I think people might be missing the point. The headline is curious, no one is going to make any assumptions and, instead will be drawn in to reading the article to found out what it is talking about. It actually works as a device to get people to read what you wrote and, that was a negative message about Howard’s not-sorry.
Andrew Fisher is Rudd’s role model apparently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fisher
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/rudd-praises-former-qld-pm/2007/11/09/1194329453320.html
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