Tim Blair

now here's a puzzle, Tim: if Latham is such a frightener on the ladies (which I don't doubt), how did he marry not one, but two such hotties?

I wonder what ALAN RAMSEY would have to say about Mark Latham's woes now...?

Where's your Messiah now, Ramsey? Narrrrrh!

Looks like Latham might drop a few sets on the way to the next semis.

I hope he doesn't lose it when a ball gets lost or disagree with the referees.

Been double faulting lately with a bit too much top spin.

Cuckoo,

As the late great Anthony Powell once said: "women may be choosy about whom they sleep with, but they will marry almost anybody."

Latham is doomed.

I can't help but see Peter Garret pulling a Bob Hawke and running as leader of Labor into the next federal election. He has a big public profile. He has kept very quiet, apparently learning his trade at grass roots level, he is a committed Christian, and holds some conservative ideas.

Given his stance over the years perhaps he has the ability to come up with a plan for reconciliation which everyone can swallow - and if he can show concern for the environment - without being a radical enviro Nazi, and keep the economy ticking over - perhaps he could get away with it.

He has some major credability issues to overcome, but if he can convince enough people, and reinvent himself, without too much compromise, he may do it.

lets face it, there is no one else there.

wow! 13 th root in 12 secs! eat your heart out INTEL.
i still remember the old simple days when the height of mathematical power, was to ask an invading robot what the square root of minus one was and watch it smoulder and croak.
Asimov? was it?

While I avoid trying to give the lefties any help, having dealth with Conroy and found him highly intelligent, well briefed on the issue I was dealing with him on, and very personable, I don't understand the following-

a. Why Conroy he is left in the Senate and not moved to the house. And,

b. Why he isn't seen as a potential leader.

Headline of the week: 13th root in 12secs best ever.

What I want to know is: what was with the bulge in the back of his suit?

/DU poster

Where's your Messiah now, Ramsey? Narrrrrh!

'Ees not the messiah! 'Ees a very naughty boy!

"I've never been afraid to take on redistribution of money."

All this time, I thought this Latham guy was a real politician. Turns out he is just the ozzie version of the fictional Robin Hood.

And why do liberals always seem to want to drag the advantaged down to the level of the disadvantaged(which helps neither), instead of helping the disadvantaged up to the level of the advantaged?

If I had any doubts that Latham was on the skids they went out the window this am. Sally Loane, ABC radio, had a brief segment just before the cricket broadcast. She mentioned that Latham had been describes as a'dead parrot' in the media and then proceeded to play an old Monty Python script about a guy trying to return a dead parrot to the pet shop. Coming from the ABC - that's gotta be bad news for Biffer.

Rinardman — Because raising the disadvantaged would INCREASE CONSUMPTION, which is wrong and materialistic and evil and icky.

It used to be quite the rage for "progressives" in the 70's to say that it was wrong to try to raise the standard of living of the Third World because there just WASN'T ENOUGH STUFF and besides, it would destroy their culture (you know, the one where babies were starving...)

Richard, I remember a great doco on first world lefty hypocrisy that discussed that very point (shown on SBS here but with a warning that it contained 'controversial views').

One scene had a wealthy New Yorker in an opulent apartment (obviously with heating, clean running water, electricity etc) saying that third world culture was far superior, more desirable and more fulfilling than ours. The next scene was of a woman in India scraping up cow dung with her bare hands to burn as fuel for cooking and heating.

...er, isn't 'root' one of those words that means different things depending on what side of the equator you're on?

Richard, that was a bit of irony. And I always figured the ones who said "there just wasn't enough stuff", were really saying "I don't want to give up some of MY STUFF to them!"

Art....that wealthy New Yorker could have easily given up his opulent apartment and moved to a third world country. Do you wonder why he didn't?

Did Gert touch the sides all those times?

Richard, I remember a great doco on first world lefty hypocrisy that discussed that very point (shown on SBS here but with a warning that it contained 'controversial views').

I think you may be referring to the BBC doco "Against Nature" which was shown on the ABC.

Razor, by rearranging your question, you have the answer!

observe

a. Why Conroy he is left in the Senate and not moved to the house. And,

b. Why he isn't seen as a potential leader.

Answer:

While I avoid trying to give the lefties any help, having dealth with Conroy and found him highly intelligent, well briefed on the issue I was dealing with him on, and very personable

Fluent Idiot:

"I hope he doesn't lose it when a ball gets lost ..."

Given Latho's medical history, that line's just nasty.

Andjam, you could be right, it was a while ago.

Rosignol,

Root (verb and noun): synonym for f*ck in nearly all its senses: "I feel rooted"; "this washing machine is rooted"; "(s)he's a good root". A very useful word in fairly polite company.

Source:
http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html

The word “root” is contextual and somewhat nuanced. The expression “this washing machine is rooted” does not mean that someone had kinky sex with a washing machine – it means that the washing machine is broken; beyond repair i.e. it’s f*cked. Similarly, “I feel rooted” does not mean that you had sex – it means that you are tired; exhausted etc. On the other hand, “(s)he's a good root" means.....well, you can figured that one out yourself.

HTH

GAWN!

Poor Mark Latham’s woes seem to echo those of heavy metal band SPINAL TAP:

"No, no. I don’t think that Mark these days is any less popular. I just think that...his appeal is becoming more, selective."

When Mr Latham attempted to bring in a prop "ladder of opportunity" into Parliament House for Question Time, he was horrified to discover that it was too BIG to fit through the doorway. Someone had made it 18 METRES long instead of 18 FEET.

Spleenville reader Boss Hogg told us earlier today about how (of all things) ABC radio had given Mr Latham’s leadership hopes the old Monty Python "dead parrot" sketch treatment. "He’s not dead, he’s just...resting" etc...

Labor Party leaders seem to die even faster than Spinal Tap drummers

Richard :-)

People of great ability can handle setbacks - or they use the opportunity to learn and become stronger. Greal leaders can unify their followers despite such setbacks and give some kind of direction or focus.

IT is obvious that Latham is neither and the longer he is leader the worse it is going to get.

Oh, I misunderstood. I thought the headline read " 13th Labor leader rooted in 12 years best ever for Libs". Anyone running a pool on when Markie Mark rolls over (or is rolled)?

His career is not dead, it's just pining for the fjords...

OI!

Robin Hood stole the Money the Overtaxed Serfs had been robbed of, by the Sherrif Of Nottingham(The State), and GAVE IT BACK TO THEM.

Robin Hood = Libertarian
Robin Hood != Socialist.

Message Ends.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Cross-me-at-your-peril-Latham-warns/2004/11/26/1101219751105.html?oneclick=true

Alternative headline, "Cabbywacker Conga Line Seeks Suckholes, Arselickers".

Anybody catch Mad-dog Latham at the Eureka Stockade jamboree?

There he was in a tent full of enthusiatic retirees lambasting the govt for not being present at the celebration of a miners revolt against govt taxes.

Meanwhile Premier Bracks, who had previously opened the celebratory gab fest, was revolting against Lathams accusation that the state freeway toll issue contributed to Lathams election defeat.

Actually Rob, I think Robin Hood (if he existed) was a dispossed noble using his illegal activities to gather enough money for the ransom of England's imprisioned king, Richard I.

It's worse than that, he's Dead, Jim.

See Dead Man Walking for a summary of the many recent articles about Latham's "enthusiastic support" amongst his colleagues. Salaried Staff are all leaving or have left. Then there's stuff like this :

Asked if he backed Mark Latham as opposition leader, Mr Bracks said the leadership was a matter for the federal caucus.

"It's not my role to back anyone, I have a state to run," he said.

Well, y'see, on this side of the equator, 'root' is the word we use to describe the underground part of plants, and in a more general sense, 'support' (usually referring to sport teams, etc).

Sex isn't really part of it.

Yeah rosignol, but in both hemispheres cheerleaders root for the home team, don't they? It just that Aussie girls are that little bit more enthusiastic.

TFK

You Wish- dream on in your small parallel universe.

To Latham, a common view from the average punter -

Best thing we can do for the poor ? Don't join them.