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We'll be back after this short break...

OK, not short break and so much has happened since July.

Of course The Rat has been summarily dismissed and I couldn't be a happier little chicken about that! I threw an election party and got very drunk.

The other great thing that's happening right now is that san Howard the media have stumbled upon another little mouse to bat around on the front page..Iemma. We've already covered some of his antics off in the early days of this blog, so I need not go into too much background here.

Suffice to say, 'Iemma my little mousey mouse - we're watching you' Meeiowwww

Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1

Peter Costello’s derogatory comments about Howard in John Winston Howard: The Biography by Peter van Onselen and Wayne Errington, released this week, have sealed his fate and played right into the hands of our dastardly villain.

What sweeter revenge for Howard than to throw his hands in the air in mock "Et tu, Brute?" defeat and pass the reigns over to Costello just months before the election. With the polls looking putrid for the Libs, Costello is sure to fall in a heap. End of career.

Howard will have the last laugh. He always does.

The War on Blacks

The release of Anderson & Wild’s report ‘Little Children are Sacred’ has this week sparked the appropriate level of horror in the press and government, and led the PM to make announcements and proclamations about enforcing radical changes in the NT to stamp out child, drug and alcohol abuse, and violence in indigenous communities.

The big question is how the PM could possibly have failed to know all of this before now?

The Fred Hollows Foundation, Jeff McMullen and Ian Thorpe’s Fountain for Youth are just a few of the hordes that have screamed themselves hoarse on this issue for decades.

Howard said this week: ''We regard this as akin to a national emergency.''

Akin? AKIN???

He obviously still doesn’t get it.

This leads me to believe that the whole thing is a stunt to deflect headlines away from his failing leadership and to seem Prime Ministerial in an effort to get re-elected.

The dirty Rat.

An entry from my great mate Liz:

Had to share this.
Do you know what, I was listening to the radio this morning, on the way to work - it was a talk back show from Park Ranger in Darwin, going on about the recent change in weather conditions up there - and the effect of the digestive systems in the crocodiles up there - that are "getting too cold."

Let me explain (as he did): “…because of the recent wet weather, in Darwin - and this temperature drop that has shot over Australia, Darwin has experienced (what, for the first time since 1968) really wet and freezing conditions, like rain, wind and (shock horror) suffering a drop to 20 degrees the other day.”

In Darwin we have real problems, it seems.

Continues the Ranger, "You know, some people up here don’t even own a Jumper or a jacket" (oh well! Hell, HAS broken loose – hasn’t it!!! - what we might have to purchase a LONG, SLEEVE - SHIRT!)

But that’s not all, he said, "And the crocodiles up here,” he said, (with the true lull of the grave and slow talking oca's up north) "that they rely on the warm weather for their digestive systems - the crocs up here go and lay out in the sun for hours and hours and this warms them up in the middle, is a crucial part of their digestive aid and if it stays too cold, the crocodiles are going to start to have some problems"

WHO HAS THE PROBLEMS??

I was listening to this story in the cab this morning, doing my make up, late for work. I looked up and sad to the cab driver "what the f*ck?" who cares if the crocodiles get cold, and die!!

Cabbie says "Yes. Yes, lets see, why don't they throw some electric blankets over the them?'

I go, "Mate - I know" - conducting with blush brush,

"Mate, You can BET..and i mean BET your LAST brass RAZOO that if you camp down there, you know, in your new sloppy joe, bought in desperation, and watch over these 'poor freezing little crocodiles' that you will find, there to be NO SIGNS of any 'digestive issues...'

- oh, funny that, suddenly..... NO SIGN OF YOU!!!

It reminded me of Wolfman. WHY does mankind feel it’s his JOB to get involved with the flaming ECOSYSTEM. It's none of our business like, the digestive situation of a the crocodiles of Australia. For God's sake.

It's the Christian thing to do...

I would not be at all surprised if John Howard stepped down before the election – he is not above giving his number 2, and greatest supporter for many years, a giant hospital pass.

The Viper

From Crikey today:
27. PBL majority shareholders dudded?

Michael Pascoe writes:

“…Which brings to mind another talent -- Alexander’s ability not to be at the scene of the accident. Having wrecked the old 9, he stepped back and David Gyngell/Sam Chisholm/Eddie McGuire became the fall guys as the results became apparent. Alexander was no longer ACP’s CEO just before the magazine cost-cutting topped out.

And now it’s Ian Law who’s left with responsibility for the old media empire, but Alexander retains an ability to meddle. Quite a talent, indeed.”

Too right Michael, too right.

I worked for that bastard when he was heading up ACP. My skin crawls as I recall the Snakepit that was Park St 7 or 8 years ago, and likely will be while ever the Viper stalks those halls.