Tim Blair

OT: Latham is talking about abolishing ATSIC. Seems like he wants to cut and run from cutting and running.

"The JAIL PUBLIC BROADCASTERS banner"

Cool! Where do I get one?

Just change the J to a H for the day.

Afterwards, replace HAI with KIL.

You can't be too careful.

Don't forget to polish up those iron heels. You've been told about this before.

Nothing hurts the image of the cause more than dirty iron heels.

Say that three times fast - dirty iron heels, dirty iron theels, dity ion theels

SMG

Don't forget to throw a sheet over Miranda's cage. Rawk! Blogmire!

Tim

Did you get your 30 pieces of silver yet? How could you? Next you'll be sleeping with the enemy, as well!

Tim,
Let us know when's it goes to air - it's not for Radio National is it?

Make sure that your basement door is locked...so that they can't hear Osama's screams from below.

"so I'm busy hiding all the Hitler statues and extinguishing that burning cross in the yard."

the audacity. After all this time of trying to tell people what a nazi you are you go and make jokes about hiding statues and putting out crosses. This really crosses the line. Making jokes about things of this severity like it's a laughing matter.

Well I guess the jokes on us. All the victims. How could you stoop so low.

disclaimer: this was intended as pun mocking the American presidential joke about WMD's being beneath a chair. For those to slow witted to have understood this from the beginning we apologise. Oh and we thought you should know too Sortelli.

GD'luck on TV.

You should wear one of those stripy shirts that makes flickering interference patterns on TV, so all the leftist ABC viewers get a headache. Mwahahahaha!

All eight of them? How cruel. Why don't they save some money and just patch into Niall's webcam, and observe true genius at work?

Don't forget to hide all plans for franchising back alley abortion clinics once a women's "right to choose" has been taken away by Bush's stormtroopers.

Yeah thanks IX, it is always a good sign of some really biting satire when you have to point out at the end that it was supposed to be mockery. And a pun is a play on words - that wasnt a pun. We just thought you should know too IXLNXS

(Scratches head.) How can Bush's stormtroopers have any effect on abortion rights in Australia? Oh wait -- [BLOFELD LAUGH]after we take over your tiny island![/BLOFELD LAUGH] I keep forgetting.

OT: Oh my, Fisk has really exceeded himself this time. Apparently Gaddafi's nuclear program was an Anglo-US-Libyan conspiracy!

http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles379.htm

Damn you Habib, had to check out Niall's webcam.
It didnt even ask for registration unfortunately.
Best I could come up with-

*sniff sniff* "Bugger me I really do smell sophisticated and urbane!"

Some of us actually know how to tell jokes, IXLFLIX. You should shut up more.

Jim, a camera crew for Radio National?

Hey Habib,

does Niall remind you of the comic book seller from the Simpsons or what?

Satire?
Smell?.

One is a blinding shaft of wit............

Except for the wit and sarcasm.

Should have a UN-trashing banner, tho.

Hope it went well!

Should change it to read "GAOL PUBLIC BROADCASTERS" instead. Then they'd be unlikely to understand it.

I thought Lather was saying he'd pull all the troops out of ATSIC by Christmas?

For US and other non-Oz Blairites: ATSIC = Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Commission. From memory, there's 17 members elected by regional councils plus a chair appointed by Federal Cabinet. Regional councils are elected by and from local councils, which in turn are directly elected. Only 300,000 people in Aust who claim Indigenous ancestry so in some areas you can win a local seat with under 100 votes. Voting's very factionalised on tribal and clan lines.

Electoral roll is supposedly limited to people with pre-1788 ancestry but (again from memory) I think the govt baulked at setting up a race-based electoral roll when ATSIC kicked off in 1989. Instead all votes are in envelopes and you can challenge an individual voter's right to the franchise, seriatim and ex post facto. That rule might have changed now.

Unlike US counterparts, these bodies don't run casinos and a lot of their money is perceived to go on rorts. For sheer blistering attacks on ATSIC, its members and staff, the "extreme Right-wingers" can't -- in my experience -- match the average Indig. Aussie who holds a 9 to 5 job and isn't in on the gravy train.

Nic,

You are so spot on. Every time I read one of Niall's comments, I find myself hearing the voice of the Comic Book Guy. I reckon they even look alike.

Habib, I think the sarcasm is there, just not in a form easily recognised. More incoherent than subtle, if you get my gist.

Al

What does "GOAL PUBLIC BROADCASTERS" mean?

you kick their balls between the posts.

Tim,

remember the 'wank-fest' you were looking for? For true onanism on a large scale you cannot beat this, from Niall's own mouth (concerning himself)

"I believe in a lot of things; other life in the Cosmos, science, love at first sight, ultimate truth, incarnation and re-incarnation. I also disbelieve a lot of things; the christian God and organised religion, speed of light, a limit on dimensionality; some things that I can't see, touch, hear, taste or smell. Science holds all the truths, some of them we haven't yet uncovered, but science either reveals or alludes to them all. The christian God? A fallacy created in dim distant times by powermongers and fanatics to explain the so-called mysteries of nature, and perpetrated by religious organisations in a bid to spread their dominance over the ignorant unwashed multitudes. Don't ever start me on organised religion. It doesn't have any place in my philosophy. I regard myself as what is commonly called these days, Pagan. I've read extensively, and find that my belief patterns fall somewhere between Wiccan and Buddhist. I've even looked briefly at Islam, and hope to study it closer. I believe I'm here as a part of a journey of learning and experience. 'Here' being this corporeal existence, in this time and this place. I firmly believe I've lived before, and will no doubt live again, on my path to ultimate enlightenment."

What a cracker!

So Niall flirts with Islam the most authoritarian and vicious of all the religions. Ah but Islam is the conservatism of foreigners so it it's allright to kowtow before it and slag off at Christianity which produced the most sublime works of art and some of the greatest thought ever known. After all, it was in Chritian societies that most of the great scientific breakthroughs occurred.

So Niall flirts with Islam, the most authoritarian and vicious of all the major religions. Ah but Islam is the conservatism of foreigners, so it it's allright to kowtow before it whilst cavilling against Christianity which produced the most sublime works of art and some of the greatest thought ever known. After all, it was in Chritian societies that most of the great scientific breakthroughs occurred.

Looks like Niall's path is gonna be a really looooooooooooooooooooong one if he's seeking enlightment. (Maybe a good whack upside the head would be helpful.)

Toryhere,

Have you ever opened George Negus' The World From [sic] Islam?

It can be summarised as "Why It's Cosmopolitan and Sophisticated for Patronising Atheists to Consider Islam 95% False, But Terrifyingly Intolerant for Christians to Consider Islam 55% False."

What a media slut. Slags off the national broadcaster ad infinitum then bends over at the first sign of a taxpayer-funded camera crew.

Say cheese!

Don't feel left out, Miranda. You were spoken of at length.

Just not on camera.

After all, it was in Christian societies that most of the great scientific breakthroughs occurred.

At which point said Chrisitian societies had a bad tendency to burn those who made said innovations at the stake, but that's beside the point...