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Chicken Run
10/11/2005 09:02 pm"I am sick and tired of miniscule profits"
Izzie so so loves this most memorable line from one of her favorite movies of all time. Up there with "Howard Potter and the Goblet of IR" And we certainly had the occasion to think of both of these delightful creations today
Been so so much happening lately. Gallons of gloom and doom. Riots in Paris and the latest bombings in Jordan which hardly rated a mention on the local newses here. They are far more interested in that Azahari fellow in Indonesia who finally got the right idea and blew himself up instead of other people like he was used to doing.
Izzie is astonished that the riots could have been allowed to get out of control for so long and wonders why no one seems to be making a big fuss about the incompetence of the French government in the way that they did about the Feds in the USA over New Orleans.
Most overseas tourists come into Paris by airplane so they never get to see the sleazy seediness that is very evident if you ever get a long distance train to the city centre.
The froggies are damned good at public relations. It was a few months ago when there was a serious of fires in hotels in Paris where so many African immigrants died - both legal and illegal that it seemed that something very strange was going on. So many dodgy substandard slums in the middle of the city and no one seemed to care and the authorities certainly did not seem to be in any great hurry to shut them down.
Not to mention that a couple of years ago when the heatwave hit Europe, the death toll in Spain and Italy was really rather small but France which one would not expect to be anywhere near as hot - it was somewhere in the thousands.
But the real reason the Izzie slinks in for a squiggle is the most entertaining day we had in Radio Land. The Izzie was giggling herself so silly that we thought it might be time to get a big bag of "Depends" just in case of accidents
Been glued to "Reichstag Radio" on and off for the last week or so (when not in the Dead Zone down south) and could not help but begin noticing the amazing talent of the Rat and his side kick - Kevin Andrews - the Minister for the management of House elves to avoid ever actually answering a question. So , Izzie's ears were truly in a state of disbelief when Mr Andrews - still capable of speaking through his enormous gloating smirk - actually quoted page numbers and clauses from some present industrial relations legislation on the subject of the requirement for employees to produce a sick certificate for an absence from work of one day. Usually his command of the English language does not extend much further than the phrase "The best form of welfare is a job"
Needless to say - when the King of Rats was asked a very specific question - namely why there was no mention at all of the present Industrial relations legislation in his party's 19 page policy brochure produced for last year's election - he squirmed and smirked and ranted about Chicken Little and the sky falling in.
After listening to his amazing antics over the last few weeks or so, the Iz cannot help but wonder if he has ever ever given a straight answer to one single solitary question from the opposition.
Would have been most amusing to be watching on the box instead of totally relying on radio and having to make up our own pictures. For most of question time, there seemed to be an unusual amount of clucking and cackling and crowing. God knows, there might even have been the odd egg laid here and there. Where's an outbreak of bird flu when you need it?
Another thing the Iz found most noteworthy - most members of the ruling party seem incapable of mentioning the "U" word without spitting and hissing in a most vile and venomous manner. One can tell that to use this word as a label is for them the greatest insult and probably gets equal ranking with their other favorites "UnAustralian" and "Terrorist"
Izzie has met a few union wankers in her life time but this pathological hatred and total irrationality was truly disturbing. Pity the Labour party don't have the brains to play the game too and bandy about the insult of "Fat Cats"
Was going to turn on our radio for the tasty tidbits just after 7am but decided to snooze a bit until our alarm went off at 7.40 Silly Izzie. Did turn on just in time to hear the vote on the third reading of this nasty piece of work but missed the previous debate and the government's favorite tactic of the gag and guillotine. They got the numbers so there's no need to follow proper procedure.
So so looking forward to the debate in the Senate two weeks or so from now. Hopefully the Izzie will have lots of afternoon shifts so we get to listen to the action live.
Seems to be a foregone conclusion that it will pass there too but unlike the lower house, they don't have a massive majority of 20 or so. It could be down to one or two. Where's Brian Harradine when you need him? He would never ever put up with such a nasty piece of works. Izzie still remembers to this day when he gave up promises of tons and tons of freebies for his constituency in Tasmania and refused to support the gouge and screw tax. The Rat got little Miss Mouse Lees to sell her soul for 33 silver sickles so it got passed in the end in spite of his refusal to do the dirty deed. But at least he still had his integrity. Such a rare commodity for a politician.
(PS - took the Preciousss walkies today so we got a lot of clickies and linkies. This masochistic serpent has now finally got her fangs on all 1200 pages of the SerfChoices bill. Amazing how so called deregulation of the labour market - like so called free trade legislation needs to have so many squillion subsections and clauses. Thank God for Cyberia and PDF files or a lot of poor trees would be dying for a most unworthy cause indeed)
Izzie so so loves this most memorable line from one of her favorite movies of all time. Up there with "Howard Potter and the Goblet of IR" And we certainly had the occasion to think of both of these delightful creations today
Been so so much happening lately. Gallons of gloom and doom. Riots in Paris and the latest bombings in Jordan which hardly rated a mention on the local newses here. They are far more interested in that Azahari fellow in Indonesia who finally got the right idea and blew himself up instead of other people like he was used to doing.
Izzie is astonished that the riots could have been allowed to get out of control for so long and wonders why no one seems to be making a big fuss about the incompetence of the French government in the way that they did about the Feds in the USA over New Orleans.
Most overseas tourists come into Paris by airplane so they never get to see the sleazy seediness that is very evident if you ever get a long distance train to the city centre.
The froggies are damned good at public relations. It was a few months ago when there was a serious of fires in hotels in Paris where so many African immigrants died - both legal and illegal that it seemed that something very strange was going on. So many dodgy substandard slums in the middle of the city and no one seemed to care and the authorities certainly did not seem to be in any great hurry to shut them down.
Not to mention that a couple of years ago when the heatwave hit Europe, the death toll in Spain and Italy was really rather small but France which one would not expect to be anywhere near as hot - it was somewhere in the thousands.
But the real reason the Izzie slinks in for a squiggle is the most entertaining day we had in Radio Land. The Izzie was giggling herself so silly that we thought it might be time to get a big bag of "Depends" just in case of accidents
Been glued to "Reichstag Radio" on and off for the last week or so (when not in the Dead Zone down south) and could not help but begin noticing the amazing talent of the Rat and his side kick - Kevin Andrews - the Minister for the management of House elves to avoid ever actually answering a question. So , Izzie's ears were truly in a state of disbelief when Mr Andrews - still capable of speaking through his enormous gloating smirk - actually quoted page numbers and clauses from some present industrial relations legislation on the subject of the requirement for employees to produce a sick certificate for an absence from work of one day. Usually his command of the English language does not extend much further than the phrase "The best form of welfare is a job"
Needless to say - when the King of Rats was asked a very specific question - namely why there was no mention at all of the present Industrial relations legislation in his party's 19 page policy brochure produced for last year's election - he squirmed and smirked and ranted about Chicken Little and the sky falling in.
After listening to his amazing antics over the last few weeks or so, the Iz cannot help but wonder if he has ever ever given a straight answer to one single solitary question from the opposition.
Would have been most amusing to be watching on the box instead of totally relying on radio and having to make up our own pictures. For most of question time, there seemed to be an unusual amount of clucking and cackling and crowing. God knows, there might even have been the odd egg laid here and there. Where's an outbreak of bird flu when you need it?
Another thing the Iz found most noteworthy - most members of the ruling party seem incapable of mentioning the "U" word without spitting and hissing in a most vile and venomous manner. One can tell that to use this word as a label is for them the greatest insult and probably gets equal ranking with their other favorites "UnAustralian" and "Terrorist"
Izzie has met a few union wankers in her life time but this pathological hatred and total irrationality was truly disturbing. Pity the Labour party don't have the brains to play the game too and bandy about the insult of "Fat Cats"
Was going to turn on our radio for the tasty tidbits just after 7am but decided to snooze a bit until our alarm went off at 7.40 Silly Izzie. Did turn on just in time to hear the vote on the third reading of this nasty piece of work but missed the previous debate and the government's favorite tactic of the gag and guillotine. They got the numbers so there's no need to follow proper procedure.
So so looking forward to the debate in the Senate two weeks or so from now. Hopefully the Izzie will have lots of afternoon shifts so we get to listen to the action live.
Seems to be a foregone conclusion that it will pass there too but unlike the lower house, they don't have a massive majority of 20 or so. It could be down to one or two. Where's Brian Harradine when you need him? He would never ever put up with such a nasty piece of works. Izzie still remembers to this day when he gave up promises of tons and tons of freebies for his constituency in Tasmania and refused to support the gouge and screw tax. The Rat got little Miss Mouse Lees to sell her soul for 33 silver sickles so it got passed in the end in spite of his refusal to do the dirty deed. But at least he still had his integrity. Such a rare commodity for a politician.
(PS - took the Preciousss walkies today so we got a lot of clickies and linkies. This masochistic serpent has now finally got her fangs on all 1200 pages of the SerfChoices bill. Amazing how so called deregulation of the labour market - like so called free trade legislation needs to have so many squillion subsections and clauses. Thank God for Cyberia and PDF files or a lot of poor trees would be dying for a most unworthy cause indeed)
