Howard’s services to the parliament
Howard - - Posted on August, 15 at 5:26 pm by Ken L
I thought I was having a nightmare the other night. John Howard was back in Canberra with the Governor-General. Then I realised he had a ribbon around his neck like one of those prize steers at the Royal Easter Show and he must have got an award of some kind, although for the life of me I couldn’t remember seeing it mentioned anywhere. I meant to look it up but forgot.
Anyway Tim has solved the mystery, explaining that our late unlamented leader got a gong ‘as a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia for “distinguished service to the Parliament of Australia”’.
Honestly, how do these people keep a straight face when they give out these things?
Howard’s singular service to the legislature was to make it an irrelevant sideshow while he accumulated as much power as possible for the executive government. Once he had control of both houses, parliament was a joke and he made his contempt for parliamentary processes obvious. Important, complicated legislation was rushed through before MPs could even read it and the committee system was turned into a Coalition tool for bashing Labor state governments.
It could have been worse I suppose. They could have given him a medal for services to human rights and international understanding. We should be grateful for small mercies.
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August 15th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
“for “distinguished service to the Parliament of Australia”’..”
I reckon the cleaners & security guards & those people who bring lots of glasses of water did a better job than Howard. Why aren’t they getting a nice shiny thing to hang from their necks?
Going by the Machiavellian SHOW bein’ produced overseas by “Black Widow” Condi, “Fuehrer” Bush, “Goebbels” Murdoch & Nuke ‘em hard Cheney & their enabling mob of Wolfsteins, if old King John had been given half a chance he woulda had somethin’ around our necks. Anyone willin’ to throw kids in a chook cage needs to be watched with a keen eye.
Good stuff Ken.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
“distinguished service to the Parliament of Australia”
How about one for the people of Bennelong?
August 15th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
“How about one for the people of Bennelong?”
lol…I was watchin’ them carvin’ up that poor pig for Maxine & thought “this ain’t the only swine gonna be eaten in this area”…Howard got fried like bacon. Egg all over his face.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Dunno about the people of Bennelong, maybe a smack in the ear for not booting the little prick out prior, then a pat on the head for finally waking up to the bludger.
Noticed how it says ’service to Parliament of Australia’,yeah, well who paid for that lot,like us, Australians, you know, the great unwashed,the annoying rabble.The only service the Rodent paid to us was dis.
And should that not be general division, not General Division. Bloody ponces. Now we await Dolly Downers award for service to us Hoi Polloi,maybe a crested spittoon in the shape of your average voter?.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
General Division TO the Order of Australia
Certainly that would accurately describe his style of politics. Cunning, slimy, divisive, gutless little C&#T!!
August 15th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Any guesses on how long it will take for obs to pop in and gloat about “the greatest PM this country has seen” etc?
August 15th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Well to be moderately fair to obs I don’t think he’s ever beeen a great barracker for anything. I would classify him as a shit-stirrer who wrongly attributes a simplistic view of the world to those whose opinions he has fun sledging.
August 15th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
“I would classify him as a shit-stirrer…”
So we wait.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I heard the GG mention two things. One was gun control, and the other was the GST, which contributed to tax revenues. I agree with the gun control as a positive, but I disagree that the GST was a positive. It is a regressive tax.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
“I would classify him as a shit-stirrer who wrongly attributes a simplistic view of the world to those whose opinions he has fun sledging.”
So it is Piers Ackerman…:)
silkworm, good points…but i’m not oppossed to the GST…as long as the rich mongrels pay it. Or…we can all afford cheap, bulk goods. Bring on the blackmarket & more cash for effort jobs I say…:) And tax investigators w/ a nose for hunting down the slimey bastar*s.
N’…burp.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Obs will be delayed for a while, he’s furiously looking up Google to make a statement.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
‘Sweet Home Chicago’ - Blues Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcPmBKi_rB8
Imagine Barama & that sexy lady of his doin’ the blues w/ Bill Clinton & the Blues Brothers?
Hillary & that beaut daughter of theirs backup singers? And a duet.
AWESOME!
August 15th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
lol…pretend that last song was on the music thread.
Just had two bloody Marys, so forgive me…plenty of tabasco, vodka & worcester sauce. Swimmin’.
August 16th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Ah, ’tis the season fer handing out medals. One fer surviving the slings and arrows of the parliament house media pack .. a couple fer the real people at Long Tan.
August 16th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Sorry Ken, but the medal for fostering human rights has gotta be reserved for Phil Ruddock.
August 16th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Nexus Magazine ,Editor Duncan Rhoads had an article or two on Martin Bryant,and written by a Sydney School Teacher.The saddest day in Australian modern history,The Port Arthur Massacre,is sadly also a day where the normal processes of trial,afterwards, simply did not take place.And in our troubled moment,we lost our capacity to reason,out of fear,and the wrong man was arrested.A testimony to bad journalism,and another fear,…fear to not trust a lingering doubt in self,about the camera.And persons in Police function,always worthy of respect,gave way to compliance,rather than the guts normally just accepted.In the rush to get the culprit,they failed themselves badly,and sadly,a new type of strain in the populace exploded like a virus.We trust the camera Almighty Camera,and down we sank into the failed pursuit of justice and a failed anti-gun collection laws by Howard,perhaps ,thinking rightly about that,but wrongly in administration.Or another scenario,which I wont speak,as I am of the type,of going silent when I could be very very angry.9/11 for many victims and others was almost portended by the conviction of Martin Bryant.Howard is a lucky man,who ever served up Port Arthur served up the chance for Howard to lead.There is a young still blonde man free somewhere,where Martin often like me ,is still imprisoned ,by others beliefs ,rather than evidence,in a cowardly populace,that did not dare to accept their own pain was not the pain that should be judging Martin Bryant.Evil stalked the land,and is still stalking the land.
August 16th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
What about a gold medal for being the greatest liar in Australia’s entire history since Captain Cook dropped anchor in Botany Bay.
And, in another time and another place, Howard would have been convicted as a war criminal and given the ‘Nuremberg’ treatment.
Meanwhile, Mars describes him as a “Cunning, slimy, divisive, gutless little C&#T!!
Come on Mars, say what you really mean!
August 16th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
These people live in another universe. Aren’t we lucky we kicked him and his government out,just imagine if they were re elected, where would we be now with the slowing of the economy and business using the threat of job losses to reduce wages.
A loser getting awards and fawned over by his losing mates. Just have a look at the lack of talent in the coalition.
They are a disgrace to Australia led by the biggest bag of shit Australia has ever seen.
August 17th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
In some strange ways, sewer-rat Howard’s decade of horror showed us all how bad and rotten any Australian government can actually become.
It proved that no matter how decent, innocent and unassuming that bespectacled urban politician seems, he could easily transform into a monster one day who acts totally outside the voters’ wishes, who marches us off to illegal and unprovoked wars upon the sole orders of just himself, who trashes our privacy and hard-fought human rights, who descends our workers back into the slave days of the past, and who rigs general elections with manufactured fantasies about parents who are so callous that they throw their own children into the ocean (when they didn’t).
Who’d ever have imagined that any Aussie prime minister would condone the bribing of our most avowed enemy, Saddam Hussein, to the tune of $600 million? And chortle about it later? Has any past PM railroaded a doctor with unfounded charges of terrorism? Has any trashed the parliament of Australia like Howard?
It was unprecedented: Howard’s shafting of our environment, the very nest we live in. His hatred of the aborigines, his hatred of everyone who wasn’t a billionaire. And, worst of all, how he got away with it all.
A lying shithouse sewer rat of unparalleled dimensions, a morally bankrupt turd with the honesty and decency of a serial killer, John Howard was nevertheless recently awarded a medal for his services to human rights and international understanding. The only thing lower than this is the organisation who proclaimed it suitable to merit this highest award to the very lowest of the low.
John Howard was the very sphincter of Australia. A barnacle on the anus of our country. No amount of reams of Sorbent will erase his rotten stain within the next century or so.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Agree with all the scatological descriptions of erstwhile leader. However, it is in the order of things that unless the citizenry take the Mussolini option (ie hang the tyrant with spouse), breaking laws and violating human rights in the process, or require permanent hibernation such as Nixon experienced, invariably rotten leaders in democracies manage some form of rehabilitation, often enabled by their political opponents. This ensures they do not suffer a similar fate when they lose office. All in all, I would rather enjoy the benefits of a robust democracy than the Pyrrhic satisfaction of seeing one tyranny replaced by another. However, I would like to see more investigation of the human rights violations on Howard’s watch and an accounting of the rule of law kind. Perhaps the bauble round his proverbial might look a little tarnished in the wash up.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Lets see how he holds up after the Costello diaries. Both are the biggest pricks that the country has seen, even even that foul mouthed prick Paul Keating wasn’t in these guys league. Capitalists to the point of helping their mates screw the punter in the street and then told the punter he was never better off.