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The Editor had a religious experience last night watching the Socceroos. Finally it all made sense: the beautiful game, the incredible skill, the offside rule. Despite daytime commitments he seriously considered staying up all night to watch the USA and Italy games. It seems that Ed’s days of ruthlessly dumping shit on football fans are over. Given that this is the cornerstone of Ed and Billybob’s friendship you may have just read the last of Billybob’s contributions to this site. (But seriously though, aren’t his World Cup updates awesome?)
During half time at the football did anybody else catch Kim Beazley’s recorded statement on SBS’s broadcast? Was it just Ed or did it ramble on endlessly, and embarrassingly, like the worst of Bomber’s infamous prolix policy statements? It was beyond shocking. In related news, a tremendous Melanie La’Brooy article in this morning’s Age sums up the desires of legions of new Liberal voters:
The average former Labor voter wants you [Beazley] to go away and not come back unless you have firm policies and can articulate them using 10 sentences or less. And it might be a good idea to dig up the moral compass that you buried in the back garden during the Tampa election in 2001 and have someone you trust staple it to your forehead.
Unfortunately Beazley has been articulating firm policies and they’re more shocking than his forced love of wogball. Hopelessly populist and xenophobic stuff like “no more foreign workers stealing our kids’ jobs”. And what about his latest doozy promise to abolish AWAs? Fer chrissakes, Kim. By all means repeal WorkChoices and give bargaining power back to employees but why abolish a legitimate instrument that is actually the choice of a not-insignificant number of employees?
La’Brooy likens the ALP to Wonder Woman “stumbling around the tarmac, arms outstretched, trying to find her invisible plane. Like Wonder Woman, the Labor caucus knows that they’re in charge of something quite big, important, and potentially useful; they’re just not exactly sure where they left it.” Great analogy. No chance of it changing any time soon.
Tuesday 13 June 2006, 3:54 pm #The Amy Commission
Such a level of enjoyment could never have been achieved without the new even-more-sperical ball…it has magical powers you know.
Tuesday 13 June 2006, 4:23 pm #Iain Hall
. I think that Kimbo has shot himself in the head with this one . When will the Labor party learn that you throw the bathwater out AFTER you remove the baby ? DUMB and I am some one who thinks that “work choices ” is a most pernicious piece of legislation that should be repealed. Already looking like a historic fifth term for John Howard.
Wednesday 14 June 2006, 10:38 am #The Editor
For once, Iain, you and I are in total agreement.
TAC: The ball is so not cube-like that the players have had to learn how to play again.
Wednesday 14 June 2006, 11:12 am #James Paterson
Yeah, Beazley’s ‘this is the best game without a doubt’ pronouncement was painful and embarrassing.
I couldn’t be more pleased with your stance on AWA’s - its just the kind of Beazley economic populism that we saw post 1996. Remember the party of Keating was advocating increased industry protection by reversing the reduction of import tariffs?
Sigh.
Wednesday 14 June 2006, 11:24 am #The Editor
You taught me all I know, James.
Wednesday 14 June 2006, 4:33 pm #billybob
You were right with your title, they don’t mix!
Wednesday 14 June 2006, 5:05 pm #GrodsCorp » The ball is a sphere
[...] The Amy Commission let us all know on Saturday night about the new ball in use at the World Cup that is “more round”. For this comment she instantly copped a river of shit before backing up her statement with actual facts that she’d read somewhere. The legendary powers of this new mystical ball grew throughout the night as more beer was consumed and TAC has since alluded to them here. So, for the information of all truly spherical ball lovers, here is a great rundown about the new magic ball. [...]