Let’s start with the good news. Today is my first ever wedding anniversary! This last year seems to have flown by. In many ways it feels like I got married a few weeks ago, and yet in other ways it feels like so much has happened.
It really has been an amazing year. I’m an extremely lucky man and honestly couldn’t be happier. I won’t get too sooky, but I just wanted to say that my wife makes my life complete. One year down, many more to go!
On a sad note, today our Government changed and the ALP are now in power. I’ve already mentioned that I despise Rudd the dickhe… I mean ministers that work with him. The thought of giving Wayne Swann the job of managing the economy just makes me sick to the stomach. I just hope that I’m wrong about Kevin, and that he’s actually going to do a good job. By the same token, I hope he can’t do much damage in the next three years while he’s in office.
November 25, 2007
Yo dude! congratulations on the anniversary. Bet it was a great day
Hope the government dont make your life too much of a misery
November 25, 2007
Wahoo
Happy Anniversary!! Did you play drinking games all night when Anthony Green said “it’s too close to call”, “bell weather seat”, and “the swing is on” ?!
Wow, 12 months eh? Time _really_ does fly! Congratulations man
And as for Australia, it’ll do alright, when smart chaps like you and me live here what could possibly go wrong !
November 25, 2007
@Moff: Thanks dude. Yeah we had a top day thanks. Kept it quiet and just hung out! It was nice.
@Dan: Thanks to you too mate. I can’t say that I was playing drinking games at all, but looking back I wish I was drunk when the news was officially in! Maybe then I wouldn’t have cared
This last year doesn’t feel like a year at all. It’s been NUTS. Great year though, so much has happened.
I hadn’t really considered our affect on the country
So touche!
@Anyone else: No cheap shots allowed in response to Dan’s comment
November 27, 2007
Congrats to you an A! I’m sure there are many more to look forward to - can’t wait to see you guys in Dec!
Regarding the ponces in power now: cheer up mate, you could’ve done worse - you could’ve had Gordon Brown!
November 27, 2007
Happy Anniversary.
Try to see the upside of Rudd.
I can’t think of anything at the moment.
Still, try to see the upside. He isn’t Howard. He’s … more poncey. I guess that isn’t good.
I wish Howard had stayed out of America’s foreign policy and not gone after every single right we had, but he did. So now we have Rudd. Try to see the upside. I can’t think of it, either.
Wait, here’s the upside … Three years until we get somebody even worse.
November 27, 2007
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
How bad do you have to be to make John Howard look good in comparison?
November 28, 2007
@Iain: Personally I thought he was good. So the point is more that they have to be even better to make him look bad - which imho Rudd is not
@Vault: Worse than Rudd? I think it might be time to move to Elbonia!
November 30, 2007
If Howard had done everything else he did, except :
1. Acted on mental health laws, not gun rights
2. Kept as neutral as Switzerland on foreign policy
3. Refused to pass draconian terrorist legislation in mimicry of the U.S.
He would have easily been the greatest prime minister of all time. Easily.
I think the Workchoices reforms were excellent and in the long run probably did more to get the employment market going again than anything Rudd will ever do in his time in office. I have been stunned since I got here 17 years ago that Australians had rigged the job market so as to make it nearly impossible to be fired. You might as well just raise a giant red flag of Chairman Mao and be done with it if you are going to adopt that kind of Marxist/French/Hippie subversive sort of government intervention in the market. Howard saw the need to change this quickly and briskly with a single slice. He had the right idea. Change is always painful and he tried to do it all in one go.
In other regards, he began to drift into hardcore totalitarianism after the Bali bombings. This was the same man who promised our rights would be safe with the government after they confiscated the guns - and he promptly began discarding the whole canon of English law going back 1200 years without so much as blinking.
Howard, sadly, had to go. He was an a**hole with some good qualities. I would agree that Rudd in his way will likely turn out to be even worse. The scariest commies of all are the Mr. Rogers milquetoast velvet gloved kind who suffocate you with a cream colored scented pillow. I expect this will turn out to be Rudd’s genre.
December 3, 2007
Happy anniversary dude!