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Virgins, Ball Control, Blockbuster, Sheer Terror, Lord Blair of Baghdad, Penny Hasn’t Dropped, Men of Action - Friday, February 5th, 2010

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Virgin on the Political
George Brandis claimed that Julia Gillard is not qualified to pronounce on parenting because she doesn’t have children.  He was however quite happy for her to discuss virginity with the hopelessly unqualified Tony Abbott.

Ball Control
There seems to be a concerted move in the UK to prevent John Terry’s sexual indiscretions being placed in the same league as Tiger’s.  It is claimed he merely put the finishing touches to a movement down his right flank.

Blockbuster
Serena Williams victory in the Australian Open seemed to be the antithesis of the outcome in Avatar.

Sheer Terror
Obama is searching for the ideal environment for the trial of the 9/11 masterminds now that the Big Apple plan has been juiced.  Support is growing for setting up a video link between the courtroom and the defendants traveling on a pilotless plane on course to crash into Al Qaeda central.

Lord Blair of Baghdad
The Iraq Inquiry in the UK seems increasingly like a deliberate attempt to undermine George W Bush’s place in history and pin all the blame for the war on Tony Blair.  And it’s an absolute scandal that so far there’s been no mention of John Howard.

The Penny Hasn’t Dropped
Kevin and Penny Wong are having a third go at getting the Lazarus ETS legislation passed by parliament.

They must either know something the rest of us don’t or don’t know something the rest of us do.

The evidence available to mere mortals indicates that the EU’s ETS is useless, Europe won’t set emissions reductions targets before the US who won’t set them before China who won’t set them.  The scientific evidence underpinning an ETS looks increasingly discredited and the only delegates in Copenhagen who looked remotely interested in taking urgent action on climate change were Kevin, Penny and those from small developing countries excited by the prospect of a big cash handout.

Perhaps its just that Kevin and Penny have seen An Inconvenient Truth too many times or they haven’t yet seen the latest Newspoll.

Men of Action
Kevin and Obama are both heavily criticised for being all talk and no action.  Perhaps action has become an unacceptable political risk undertaken only by carpetbaggers like George W Bush and Tony Abbott.

Our Prays are being answered - Friday, September 18th, 2009

Obama Fan Club Letterhead

Newsletter from Australia

White House,
Washington DC.,

18th September 09

Dear Mr President,

You wouldn’t believe how proud and thrilled I am that you reacted to last week’s Newsletter by appointing your mate Jeff Bleach as the new US Ambassador to Australia.

I had no idea that our Newsletter would have such a big impact on you. That has made it all the more worthwhile for all of us at the Obama Fan Club.

We convened a special meeting of the Club last Tuesday when we passed a resolution congratulating you on this landmark appointment. We also discussed whether we should continue with the Newsletter now that Jeff’s coming on board. There was a unanimous vote in favour of carrying on in order to give Jeff time to settle into the job and also because you have obviously come to depend on us so much.

It’s such a shame that he has to live in Canberra but there’s lots of lovely people down there like Kevin and Julia and I suppose he’ll spend most of his time with them at cocktail parties.

I’ll write a note to Jeff at the embassy inviting him to bring his family to Sydney. The Club can take them out round all the sights and if they bring their togs we could all go for a splash at Bondi then lunch at McDonalds just to make them feel at home.

As luck would have it the Club has a vacant slot for a guest speaker in November. I’m going to ask Jeff to speak on ‘Feeling my way Down Under’.

You’re not going to believe this but Mildred had a great idea. She said why don’t we talk to Jeff about co-ordinating our newsletters with the stuff you get from the embassy. I mean there’s no point in Jeff sending you the same good goss as us. I’ll mention that to him when I see him.

Don’t worry I’m not going to load Jeff up with stuff until he’s got his feet under the table. He’ll have lots to do when he gets here like chatting to Kevin and Stephen Wotshisname our Foreign Affairs bloke, meeting all the local CIA spooks and presenting his credentials to the Governor General. She’s such a charming woman. Please tell Jeff not to be worried because I’m sure she wont inspect his credentials in public.

Trust you are going well with the healthcare plan. I wouldn’t look for any new healthcare ideas in NSW if I were you. The waiting lists to get out of hospitals here are longer than the ones to get in.

Did you see that performance by Serena Williams at the US Open? I was so shocked. How on earth did she think she was going to get that tennis ball down that poor lineswoman’s throat? I can only hope that instead of getting her to swallow it whole she intended to do it with sliced serve.

Till next week,

Gaelene Woo
President