Sunday, August 29, 2010

A North Queensland State of Mind

Who does not love the Australians (Aussies)? They are a matchless nation, with no end of interesting and unique life forms.
One, not so unique, but as interesting as all get out is their politicians or as they are commonly known "The Lying Mongrels in Canberra)
Now, recently, the nation spoke in a General Election and what it emphatically said said was "up your nose, politicians, you scumbags".But for the great tradition of Western Civilisation to sweep forward in  a great sweeping motion, there has to be a result. Someone must have a majority in the Parliament so that all of the favours can be payed back. Right now the balance of power is held by some non aligned MP's and one of these is the
Colourful independent MP Bob Katter
Full story here but it appears that Bob got into a fist fight on election night and he is, apparently
"...one of those blokes, you throw one at me and I'll give you 10 back. And he got 10 back and I haven't heard from him since. I think a lot of people have told him to shut his mouth."
Bob further notes that:
He likened the treatment of rural Australians to "oppression" and said it was important to realise that he lived in a "North Queensland paradigm" rather than an "Australian paradigm".
This is code for Angry White People, a popular schtick in many parts of the world where too many swarthy people have got the vote and such.
Ah Queensland! Racist one day and racist the next, where would one be without the rock of arseholery to aid as mirror image navigation point for one's own moral compass.
Bob, as the careful and considerate guy that he is lays it out:
"We will be not drawing lines in the sand - I don't think that's fair to either leader - but we almost certainly will be indicating clearly where lines in the sand are going to be drawn," he said.
So "There's not lines in the sand but there are and you better watch where you're walking or you'll get ten from me".
Sadly, in this case, the people really have spoken about what they want.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Ozzie; the lucky country.
NZild; the mucky country.
We offered them ozziemandeis's the South Island (South Island, the the is not optional, ever, ok?).
They turned us down, but sent back Kawena Grey, a most intriguing man with a thing for wallaby, really, who wouldn't?

lashou, tie up really really tightly.

J— said...

"A North Queensland State of Mind"

Only scheduling conflicts prohibited Billy Joel from flying out and recording Katter's campaign theme song.

mikey said...

"We will be not drawing lines in the sand - I don't think that's fair to either leader - but we almost certainly will be indicating clearly where lines in the sand are going to be drawn"

Good lord. If Sarah Palin said this, we'd all be flabbergasted at her sudden, newfound coherence. But beyond that, it's pretty hard to make out what this here fellah's trying to say. He needs to take some lessons from Eric Cantor and John Boehner. When you deny you're doing what you're plainly doing it, you do not immediately follow that denial with an admission that you ARE doing it in the EXACT SAME WORDS. Because it makes you look deranged and somewhat stupid.

You say something like "Oh, my goodness no. We're not privatizing social security. We're just seeing to it that people have more individual choice in their retirement decisions, while at the same time we're strengthening the system, making it more sustainable by reducing government's involvement in the process"

See? You have to use different words....

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

What's up with those Queenslanders? They don't even sing Waltzing Matilda like honest folks do.

Hamish Mack said...

Splitters!!!!

Smut Clyde said...

the South Island (South Island, the the is not optional, ever, ok?).

I still haven't forgiven Heinlein for making that mistake in "Friday". How can one sustain the suspension of disbelief required to accept a vat-grown superhuman corporate courier, when characters are talking about "South Island"?

Unknown said...

Yep the suspension of belief. Kiwi viewers will always thank Holmes and the Ozzies for always including the the.
Holmes, the P
Ozzies, the GST

surings, true to me.