December 08, 2004

CONGRATULATIONS, BIG GUY

In this week's Bulletin: the newsmaker of the year.

Posted by Tim Blair at December 8, 2004 06:32 PM
Comments


Clover Moore will not be happy!

Posted by: gubbaboy at December 8, 2004 at 08:14 PM

Sorry, for the overseas readers.
Our atheistic Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore will not be happy.

Posted by: gubbaboy at December 8, 2004 at 08:21 PM

My bad,
Our atheistic Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore who thinks that a couple of trees and a bunch of flags that say seasons greetings(in 9 languages because we are a multicultural city don't you know) is an appropriate celebration of the big fellas son's birth, will not be happy.

Posted by: gubbaboy at December 8, 2004 at 08:28 PM

Andrew Bolt destroys the multiculturist bureaucrats, as usual:

Boy, am I sorry my parents made me ditch the clogs, learn English, and mix more with you guys. Who knows what board I might have got to run if I spoke double-Dutch and wore a tulip in my button-hole?

Posted by: ilibcc at December 8, 2004 at 09:31 PM

God may get the gong for Australian of the year but how about nominating the Aussi cricket team as the 12 Apostles?

Secular cricket lovers would probably back Warnie for Aussie of the year, turning a Nelsonian blind eye to his off-field antics.

Posted by: Rafe Champion at December 8, 2004 at 09:35 PM

Tim,

Did you write the other "newsmakers 2004" stuff, including describing Redfern as a "site of a failed social experiment to provide housing for Aborigines"?

Posted by: Andjam at December 8, 2004 at 09:37 PM

Clover Moore and the local ALP are working to stop any normilization of the block. They want a bigger Aboriginal housing experiment. Waaaaaaaah,
can't Santa's reindeer perform a trample, bag snatch on her?

Posted by: gubbaboy at December 8, 2004 at 09:50 PM

Andjam,

Yes,

Posted by: tim at December 8, 2004 at 10:21 PM

"The site of a failed social experiment to provide housing for aborigines"

That can't be correct, can it? Oh wait.....

Posted by: Pedro the Ignorant at December 8, 2004 at 10:49 PM

Thanks, gubbaboy.

Your Lord Mayor of Sydney is, sadly, legion. In the name of sensitivity, nobody in the States is allowed to acknowledge (officially) the Person Whose Birthday We Celebrate, even during the celebration: someone may be offended.

We have very nearly lost the vital ability to tell busybodies to bugger off. I'm nearly certain that it's part of the larger loss of the will to defend ourselves in any way - starting with our faiths, and moving on to include our traditions, culture, and morals, and finally our very lives and property. (Not oddly, it started with busybodies spending decades hectoring us about the tawdriness of all of those things.)

Posted by: Nightfly at December 9, 2004 at 01:27 AM

"Clover"?!?

Posted by: Andrea Harris at December 9, 2004 at 02:43 AM

Andrea,yes Clover is her name.

She masqueades as a lesbian to appeal to the large inner city gay community, wears a choker and has black spiky hair, tends to use to much lippy and puts on tonnes of pasty makeup to appeal to goths .

In truth she is just another do-gooding whitebread atheist mum with a Dennis Thatcher type husband.

Yessss her name is Clover AARRRGGGGGGHHHHHH !

Posted by: gubbaboy at December 9, 2004 at 10:20 AM

Good god.

A lesbian running around calling herself "Clover" wouldn't last more than five minutes in an American dyke bar.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at December 9, 2004 at 11:38 AM

Andrea says:

A lesbian running around calling herself "Clover" wouldn't last more than five minutes in an American dyke bar.

I am led to believe that any such creature would be treated more leniently by the curious locals due to her Australian accent. :-)

Posted by: JPB at December 9, 2004 at 12:21 PM

"Clover" is good compared to a Minister of the Crown here in Victoria. Candy. Candy Broad. Talk about a bogan name. What kind of parent names her child 'Candy'? It's really cutey-pie when you're in kindy, but as an adult it's just dorky. I'm surprised she didn't change it.

Posted by: Walter Plinge at December 9, 2004 at 12:28 PM

How about a login and password for us poor peasants who don't subscribe? Or at least a reprint?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 9, 2004 at 01:16 PM

The article sounded like you were saying that houses aren't a good idea for aborigines. What'd be the fall-back solution? Yurts?

Posted by: Andjam at December 9, 2004 at 10:02 PM