Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Election Blowflies
an election is in the wind, and the propagandists on both sides are clustering like blowflies on…. Well whatever blowflies cluster best on.
However the Conservative blowflies are, as usual, fatter, and buzz in higher-pitched, born-to-rule accents — and they are still trying to justify their illegal, immoral, and barbaric invasion of the sovereign nation of Iraq.
I can imagine one of these Conservative blowflies trying to explain the intervention to its grandchild:
“Why did we go into Iraq, Grandad? Was it because Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction? Or because we wanted to liberate the Iraqi people from tyranny?”
“Well that’s what we told the commoners in the Swarm, but it was really because Saddam had done a terrible thing — he’d hidden our oil under his sand! But the Greatest Blowfly of All, George W, decided that he would like to be Julius Caesar and declare that all Iraq was divided into three parts — Regular, Premium and Unleaded!”
However the Conservative blowflies are, as usual, fatter, and buzz in higher-pitched, born-to-rule accents — and they are still trying to justify their illegal, immoral, and barbaric invasion of the sovereign nation of Iraq.
I can imagine one of these Conservative blowflies trying to explain the intervention to its grandchild:
“Why did we go into Iraq, Grandad? Was it because Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction? Or because we wanted to liberate the Iraqi people from tyranny?”
“Well that’s what we told the commoners in the Swarm, but it was really because Saddam had done a terrible thing — he’d hidden our oil under his sand! But the Greatest Blowfly of All, George W, decided that he would like to be Julius Caesar and declare that all Iraq was divided into three parts — Regular, Premium and Unleaded!”
Monday, June 07, 2004
Parliamentary Entertainers
[In a blatant attemt to win back at least a part of the Green vote in the impeng election, the opposition Labor Party co-opted Peter Garrett, former lead singer of the band 'Midnight Oil' to a safe Labor seat in southern Sydney. Aristocratic Foreign Minister of Sottish descent, Alexander Downer, questioned Mr Garrett's bona fides in the same speech as he announced the production of a brochure intended to justify Australian involvement in Iraq]
I was intrigued to learn that the Federal Government plans to spend X hundreds/thousands/millions of dollars on an 18-page pamphlet with (pace Arlo Guthrie) “…8x10 glossy colour photographs with circles ‘n’ arrows, ‘n’ a paragraph … explaining what each one is” to convince us why we should be in Iraq.
I wonder whether the conservative pundits and their acolytes who rabbit on about how taxpayers’ money is being wasted showing two mums on Play School [moral conservatives were scandalized when this ABC chidrens' program showed a girl at an amusement park in the company of two women, rather than a woman and a man] will whinge about this blatant attempt to buy votes.
I wonder whether the conservative pundits and their acolytes who rabbit on about how taxpayers’ money is being wasted showing two mums on Play School [moral conservatives were scandalized when this ABC chidrens' program showed a girl at an amusement park in the company of two women, rather than a woman and a man] will whinge about this blatant attempt to buy votes.
Probably not — they will be waiting for the fridge magnet/bumper sticker/T shirt/key chain with the motto “I went Bush with George.” Or maybe what they’re really hanging out for is the CD by the Liberal/National Party Choir — conducted by plum-voiced “Lord Alexander”” Downer, the Minister for Bashing Aging Rock-Stars — adapting the John Lennon Classic so that it sings “All we are saaaaaaaying/ is give Bush a chance!”
