John Linton with the intellectual capabilities of pond scum and the ethics of a Mugabe body guard....
.........to address situations that require the education, experience, intellectual breadth and comprehensive understanding of the human condition with the requisite knowledge and experience to sensibly address the various issues that need such attributes? Why is Australia, alone among Western Democracies of the last 100 years, always cursed with intellectually bereft and ill educated mental midgets like Krudds and Whines whenever key decisions based on true understanding need to be made? Which one of the poorly educated, 'hubristic' goofballs currently masquerading as the federal government of Australia could sum up the current situation and the events leading to it as elegantly and as comprehensively as a casual visitor to Australia (who was not addressing political issues) who I, and many other people, had the vast pleasure of hearing make this address in Sydney in the later 1990s:
http://www.ispa.org/ideas/obrien.html
(I would put money on the fact that if a reporter asked Krudd who Horace was he would answer "Horace? ...Horace who?).
...and so Krudd returns, briefly, to Australia from the London Charade of G20 'r' Us where his soporific and puerile contributions at the furthest flung fringes of that waste of time and money, delivered in his now world famous public speaking style copied from the UK's "speaking clock" method of public articulation, were completely ignored to gee up the party faithful, and those members of the electorate who were stupid enough to vote for such a cypher, with his "NBN" announcement before he finishes emptying the piggy bank (better known as the consolidated national revenue) in the latest of his mindless p***ing away of Australian tax payers contributions to fund the pointless self puffery of his constant grandiloquent world tours. (Did he stamp his foot at a flight attendant this time because his slightest whim wasn't delivered within a split second?).
As this is, at least theoretically, a blog dealing with Australian communications events, issues and strange happenings I have always assumed that the few people who might stumble across it would have some knowledge of the general topic of communications in this country. Therefore a reader would be able to use his or her knowledge of communications to be able to judge the competence of Krudd and his minions (Stupid Stephen, Whine and the Screech Owl et alia) on the two issues that currently relate to Australian communications - the proposed 'internet filter' and the about to be announced 'national broadband network'.
(I'm omitting, for the moment, a group of people who decided that someone who didn't finish high school should be in charge of the highest spending of all government departments in securing the overall safety of Australia and selecting an ex-pop singer to protect the environment for future generations, the amazingly dumb about to be put out to grass TV show hostie - Chalk M'Cue together with.....but fill in the rest for yourself).
By now it would be obvious, to anyone with anything not far below a few snags short of a barbie in the old thinking processes, that the Labor party's combined intellectual and experiential competencies bring to sensible government what a kindergarten class could offer to address bringing a lasting successful political and humanitarian solution to Zimbabwe. While I realise its theoretically impossible, it seems to me the combined IQ of the current federal cabinet is actually a minus figure.
So....what will the decisions be on filtering the internet and a government funded network? About the same as the implementations from Krudd's first prized piece of idiocy - "The Ideas Summit"? - hey, isn't that going to be implemented by now?? It really doesn't matter now because the processes have been so screwed up by the morons that thought them up in the first place that no decision will do the slightest thing to improve communications in Australia and the likely decisions are going to put back any progress that has been made since 2002. And, for those following this line of thinking, this is the level of thoughtful analysis being used for every other aspect of federal government decision making in this country at the moment - primarily addressing the current financial issues that may occur later this year. Work it out, it would only take the blink of an eye, what sort of total stupidity will be employed by Whine, Krudd et alia on those issues?...and you really think Penny Wrong is helping the water conservation decision making with her latest "aw shucks little girl" mindless screw up?
So well done, you (you = the people who voted for the current bunch of muppets).
I wonder how many people actually read right through the article I referenced at the beginning of this peroration? Yes, I know it was very long but then anything of any importance can't be contained in a Labor sound bite....
"No child will live in poverty by..."
"98% of all Australians will have broadband by....."
"No Australian child will be exposed to......"
How truly pathetic....not the morons who made these statements, they were always beyond any hope of redemption....the people who then voted for them. I surely hope you remember this shambles next time a polling booth crosses your path.
O'Brien....why weren't you born in Australia?