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GLITTERING VICE-REGAL CAREER OVERLOOKED
What recent appointment is missing from this capsule biography in the Sydney Morning Herald?
Richard Butler was the Australian ambassador to the United Nations from 1992-97, chairman of the UN Special Commission to Disarm Iraq 1997-99, Diplomat in Residence at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York 1999-2001.
The fact that he was a terminal middle management desk jockey in Foreign Affairs until the Hawke Labor government got in in ‘83, whereupon he suddenly became an international affairs guru and the new Ambassador for Disarmament.
Posted by Consuela Potez on 2005 06 07 at 08:32 PM • permalinkButlers arguments of Saddam Hussein possessing WMD’s has largely been ignored in recent years too.
Posted by Hank Reardon on 2005 06 07 at 08:59 PM • permalinkOne half of the gang of two who publicly expressed their animosity about vice regal institutions and later jumped at the job like starving Dobermans when the filthy lucre was waved in their direction?
(P.S. the other half was Bill Hayden)
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 06 07 at 09:44 PM • permalinkDang, Ron, that page makes me want to organize a lobbying group in support of the oppressed and misunderstood weed. Maybe it’s the way they used pictures of pretty flowers (aka, “weeds”) to decorate their page, and this statement: “Montanans have a lot to be proud of . . . our pristine landscapes, our lifestyle and recreational opportunities.” Yeah, especially since celebrities have been moving in, can’t have those ugly—aka, non-cultivated in a greenhouse—useless plants known as “weeds” mucking up our nice velvety grass plains which we resodded with special grass from Brazil (so much prettier than that raggedy native “grass”).
Seriously, I realize that many weeds are in fact invasive plants brought in from elsewhere and some species can be bad for cattle to eat, but still…
Oh the hell with it. Save the Weeds!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 06 07 at 09:55 PM • permalinkGoverner General of Tasmania until they got so sick of him and his incredibly obnoxious wife they threw him out.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 06 07 at 11:57 PM • permalinkYeah, entropy, but I like Aging Gamer’s nuance!!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 06 08 at 12:54 AM • permalinkEmeritus Professor, Toad Hall
Inaugural Winner of the Taswegian Felching Union Annual Kuntsak AwardPosted by Jay Santos on 2005 06 08 at 02:12 AM • permalinkA line from Butler’s 2002 book, “Fatal Choice”: “Those who insisted to Columbus that the Earth was flat were that era’s most modern of gentlemen and scholars.”
No-one insisted to Columbus that the Earth was flat because in 1491/92 no educated person believed it was. Some people pointed out, quite correctly, that Columbus could not carry enough provisions to get from Spain to China, which he was attempting.
Mind you, Butler’s incredible behavious as Governor of Tasmanis suggests HE may believe the Earth is flat - evidently he saw himself as some sort of ancient world potentate.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 06 08 at 03:37 AM • permalink#13
I figured the yanks would want to know what the hell we were going on about :p
You’re free to ignore it
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 06 08 at 04:33 AM • permalinkAndrea, they have to show wildflowers because that’s how you identify weeds, for which Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide is a great source by the way, if you want to carry it when you bike to work. No weed unidentified in its season!
Today’s (6/8) weed is Canada Anemone, looking at the notes I put in the index, for Central Ohio roadsides.
Ontario put out a book _Ontario Weeds_ that lists the Ontario Noxious Weed Control Act (1974), that land owners _must_ pull out the following ... including poison ivy. Canada is more officious than Montana. Wildflower enthusiasts use the book instead as a field guide
Yes it’s appointed. Mind you, these same people voted Bob Brown into the senate, so anything is possible in Tassie.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 06 08 at 11:12 AM • permalink
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