Thursday, August 31st, 2006...9:10 am
Morning email from Owy:
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“I just had a brilliant Prentiss McCabe moment where I realised that if the ALP just completely shuts up and says absolutely nothing between now and the next election, there is a chance that people will be sick of hearing about JH and hearing his voice, and a suprising landslide could actually take place, but unlikely.”
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August 24th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
brilliant stragety!
August 24th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Is that a strategy or a tragedy? Or both
August 24th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
knowing kimbo, he would turn it into a tragic strategy which would become a strategic tragedy. So, yeah, go with the stragety.
August 24th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
That has been Kimbo’s repeated strategy, don’t encourage it further!
August 24th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
Sorry, I meant something ‘tangible in relation to policy’…
August 24th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
It’s a little too late for that strategy to work.
The Labor party is full of tolerant do gooders wanting to let anyone and everyone into the country.
Even the Labor voters remember that and vote Liberal.
August 24th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
That would make them Liberal voters, Jim.
And speaking as a tolerant do-gooder, I think you’re completely wrong. My parents are life members of the ALP and get quite cut at the idea of “queue jumpers”, despite my pointed questions about where the frickin’ queue might be in the middle of, say, a war zone. The ALP as we all know introduced mandatory detention and still supports it (although not as presently constituted). If my fellow do-gooders and I had our way, it would be a different world.
August 24th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
I would just like to point out that according to my friend Wikipedia, only 300 000 more Australians voted for the Libs than voted for Labor. In fact, it turns out more people voted for lefty-do-good parties like the Dems and the Greens and Labor than voted for the Libs, according to my rough calculations.
Of course, I’m not mentioning the Nationals or One Nation.
But even so, I dispute the notion that we Aussies vote en masse for the Liberals, and I especially dispute the notion that it had much to do with border security, or that Labor will ‘let anyone in’.
August 24th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
I just love his line of ‘If I didn’t exist, then you’d pay somebody to invent me’. Hopefully Owy is right. Please let him be right.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
And anyway, howcome everyone assumes that do-gooders are tolerant? I’m a do-gooder, but there’s very little I can tolerate before lunch. And very often, I have a late lunch.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
oh! fan-tastic!!
please, please, someone write to KimB immediately and make him do it. brilliant idea!
btw Absolute Power – one of the most fabulous series. ever. so good. so dry. so very very clever.
August 25th, 2006 at 8:23 am
“If my fellow do-gooders and I had our way, it would be a different world.”
It certainly would be a different world.
You’d be wearing a hadjib and you’d be busy cooking and cleaning as opposed to expressing you ill concived opinions on a blog!
August 25th, 2006 at 9:52 am
Hey Jim
fuck off then
xxx
August 25th, 2006 at 11:34 am
yeah, I haven’t had my lunch yet
August 25th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Jim, jim, jim, – I’m already cooking and cleaning, and doing all that other stuff – do you really think a headscarf is that scary?
August 25th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Don’t forget to put on your Hadjib Zoe
August 25th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
Hijab dude, it’s called a HIJAB.
August 25th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Gaida,
Do some research on the Taliban and what they did before America cleaned them up!
You’ll know all about deprivation of liberty and freedom!
August 25th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Jim really is the Platonic troll, isn’t he?
August 25th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Er, Jim, some of us know quite a bit about Afghanistan. For work and stuff. Some of us, for instance, have read about the recent Unifem report which indicates that things might not be quite so “cleaned up” for Afghan women as you suppose.
Some of us are also aware of continuing Taliban violence, particularly in the south of Afghanistan, and often including targeting schools, increasing poppy cultivation and not to forget your drought, your poverty, your extraordinary maternal and child health problems, etc, etc, etc.
But at least we can agree the Taliban are a bunch of nutbags. That’s nice for us, isn’t it?
I get this creepy feeling sometimes that people who are so quick to tell women to “get their hidjab (fully sic)” on really kinda like the idea of exercising that kind of control over women, deep in their heart of hearts.
And yeah, thanks for sharing.
August 25th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Good debate kids!!
I really feel completely uneducated when it comes to politics, I do understand marketing though, and people will actually vote for whomever they remember – it’s not a highly educated and well thought out process for most people with their ‘they are all as bad as each other’ impression.
August 25th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
So is a hidjab what they call oral sex in New Zealand?
August 25th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
I ♥ you, Kate.
August 25th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
bring back the duggars
August 25th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
dear god, I love youse girls
August 25th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
I thunk you are all being virry bed and mean to Jum. Ispicially Kite.
August 25th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
“Er, Jim, some of us know quite a bit about Afghanistan. For work and stuff. Some of us, for instance, have read about the recent Unifem report which indicates that things might not be quite so “cleaned up” for Afghan women as you suppose.
Some of us are also aware of continuing Taliban violence, particularly in the south of Afghanistan, and often including targeting schools, increasing poppy cultivation and not to forget your drought, your poverty, your extraordinary maternal and child health problems, etc, etc, etc.
But at least we can agree the Taliban are a bunch of nutbags. That’s nice for us, isn’t it?
I get this creepy feeling sometimes that people who are so quick to tell women to “get their hidjab (fully sic)” on really kinda like the idea of exercising that kind of control over women, deep in their heart of hearts.”
So you can welcome them here then and we can all live happily ever after and tolerate and respect each other and have world peace and everything will be touchy feely.
That is until they stop tolerating you!
August 25th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
‘Jim, jim, jim, – I’m already cooking and cleaning, and doing all that other stuff – do you really think a headscarf is that scary?’
If it aint that scary love go and live over there and tell me how great life is for a muslim woman in Iran!
PSML
August 25th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Oh dear God not another one.
Why is it that so many of the men who never once gave a rat’s hairy backside about the oppression of women — quite the reverse, really — are now suddenly charging in battalions out of the woodwork, wildly waving copies of The Female Eunuch?
Askin’.
August 26th, 2006 at 7:21 am
“Oh dear God not another one.
Why is it that so many of the men who never once gave a rat’s hairy backside about the oppression of women — quite the reverse, really — are now suddenly charging in battalions out of the woodwork, wildly waving copies of The Female Eunuch?”
Because I don’t want praise Allah every friday morning! This Australia love.
Besides I have have always been a femi-nazi! Never shaved my armpits in my life!
You guys are such brilliant political strategists that you should be on Beazley’s staff.
With you lot on his books the Labor party would win the next election by a landslide!
PSML
August 26th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
I notice Jim has an answer for all the important questions but one.
You’re from Nu Zilland, aren’t you? This Australia love.
August 27th, 2006 at 7:29 am
Well after witnessing the brilliant strategic minds at work on this website, and the intellectual geniuses that devised Beazley’s comeback I would be happy to say that I am anything other than Australian!
An unfortunate consequence of freedom and freedom of speech is that imbeciles like you get to express their dim-witted views!
Keep up the good work. I am certain that Australia will be in safe hands with people like you leading the Labor party!
August 28th, 2006 at 10:46 am
Sorry to disappoint. Next time, Jim, we’ll fight you with only one hand tied behind our backs.
August 28th, 2006 at 11:42 am
“Sorry to disappoint. Next time, Jim, we’ll fight you with only one hand tied behind our backs.”
How many of you are posting? PMSL!
What caught my attention were the brilliant minds at work!
When’s the next no war protest?
August 29th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
How sad. All of Jim’s friends got bored and went to play in the sandbox without him.
August 30th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Kate, don’t be so dismissive.
I for one am totally convinced by his “Shut up or You’ll Instantly Become an Oppressed Muslim Woman” message. RSVP
I think you should all immedeately shut up AND devise Beazley’s new strategy (which is, of course, to shut up). LOTR
Oppression and becoming a Muslim Instantly doesn’t apply to me because I am a MAN. HTML
Peace and Love (except to Muzzies). HS4NP
August 30th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
Besides, Jim, you want to be careful suggesting that Kate put on a Hijab because (a) It would leave more to imagination, and (b) we already know that she’s totally hawt, and (c) she has bewtiful eyes and in a hijab you’d have to stare into them and… [It's all gone dark]
Also, Jim, you should watch V for Vendetta. I’d love to know your thoughts.
August 31st, 2006 at 3:00 pm
PMT
September 1st, 2006 at 4:08 am
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September 1st, 2006 at 6:09 am
‘hijab’ is a Manner Of Dress.
it means ‘modest’.
it is not any one garment.
Thanks to Katie for the joke – I laughed and laughed.
September 1st, 2006 at 8:49 am
Harry Hijab, you look hawt in that yourself.
September 2nd, 2006 at 8:27 pm
“Harry Hijab, you look hawt in that yourself.”
Why thank you Naomi.
Saving the Western World from the ravages of Teh Muslims does give one incredible calves. Even if I do say so myself.
September 3rd, 2006 at 10:04 am
oh those calves!
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