this looks fabulous

KS

On 23/03/07, meikamonagmail <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 23/03/2007, at 22:08, Roger Day wrote:
> > Isn't there a form like this?
> >
> > I tried this once:
> >
> > http://www.badstep.net/text/poetry/estaury/fox.html
>
> Roger
>
>
> interesting intersections aside.....
>
>   I find I have the same emotional reaction to the stationary as to
> the fox, to the airfix glue as to the leaf-mould, actually I think I
> prefer the biros to the hawk.
>
> You see, foxes have just arrived in Tasmania, and while Macdonalds
> golden arches beat them here by a decade or more they mean much the
> same thing, homogeneity of the world's temperate zones.
>
> I'm too placed in Tasmania to readit otherwise.
>
> and as it under a share-alike license...
>
>
> __________A Fox Forest Forgetting__________
>
> A fox noses
> a papered forest
> reeking of chlorine.
>
> Professor Andrew Wadsley: My concerns over dioxin contamination are
> not idle scaremongering. I am an adjunct associate professor of
> Petroleum Engineering at the Curtin University of Technology, Western
> Australia, and I have acted as Umpire and Expert Witness in dispute
> resolutions in the petroleum industry. It is outrageous that the Bill
> disenfranchises me and all other Tasmanians from participating in the
> assessment process, from challenging the Proponent's expert
> witnesses, and removes any legal right to take civil action over any
> breach of Tasmanian law. Sir, I realise that withholding assent is
> not a step that you would take lightly. Nevertheless, I urge you to
> do this in order to preserve the Rule of Law in Tasmania.
>
> The fox laughs, cocks his leg against
> the stump of a tree once alive
> for four hundred years
> now gone to wipe arses in Japan.
>
> Michael Pascoe writes: A little wind-powered, solar-heated,
> greenhouse-neutral recyclable light switched on in my head while
> reading Thomas Hunter's pulp mill piece yesterday. Suddenly I
> understood why we have a totally inconsistent and very dodgy federal
> policy to allow odious tax-driven marketing of lousy plantation
> timber investment schemes to continue. While scrapping the up-front
> tax rort for non-timber rural managed investment schemes, the
> government has tried to justify continuing the ruse for timber
> plantations with some garbled mutterings about greenhouse policy,
> import replacements and patient capital. It of course made and makes
> no sense.  But yesterday, it clicked. It looks like Gunns' pulp mill
> will only be viable if it plants vast new timber plantations. The
> timber plantations will only happen if they can be marketed to mug
> investors under the guise of a tax break. The federal forestry
> minister is Senator Eric Abetz. Senator Abetz worked harder than
> anyone to keep the tax lurk. Senator Abetz is from Tasmania. What's
> the most powerful corporation in Tasmania? Oh, you already know that
> one.  Silly me – at the time, I thought it rather odd that Gunns
> donated $62,500 to the Liberal Party but only $2,980 to Labor last
> year, but I guess the plantation kings always knew which policy
> really mattered most to them.  Personally, I have no problem with a
> pulp mill or continuing to harvest previously-harvested native
> forests or planting timber plantations. What's annoying is that, as a
> taxpayer, I'm subsidising questionable marketing campaigns for lousy
> or not-very-good investment products.  The timber plantation schemes,
> even with the 100 per cent up-front tax deductions, haven't and don't
> really stack up as good investments. Many of them are positively
> woeful. Without the tax enticement, they would be fully exposed as
> duds, but there are plenty of mugs out there happy to burn a dollar
> to avoid paying 50 cents tax.  And the rest of us are subsidising
> their illusion. Nice work, Eric. I'm just glad I finally understand
> why it happened.
>
> The fox gnaws another
> pademelon
> or eight.
>
> Michael Field: To understand why John Howard could become a figure of
> tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, his life story needs to be
> understood. The Liberal Party has been John Howard's life. He joined
> the party about the time of his eighteenth birthday in 1957, and so
> he will have his 50th anniversary this year.  The best indication of
> his commitment and that of his mother was an action taken by them in
> 1968 when he was still living at home. Howard was endorsed as the
> candidate for the state seat of Drummoyne.  In order to enhance his
> chances, his mother sold the family home in Earlwood and rented a
> house with him at Five Dock, a suburb within the electorate. When his
> bid failed, John Howard and his mother returned to Earlwood, moving
> together to a house in the very same street that he grew up in.
>
> Down in the valley, men prowl.
> but the fox has it all.
>
> Murdoch's Mockery Newspaper: FORMER judge Christopher Wright felt
> "compromised", leant on and pressured by Premier Paul Lennon to fast-
> track the assessment of the Gunns pulp mill. Mr Wright said Mr Lennon
> had given him an "ultimatum" to speed up the assessment of the $1.5
> billion project or he would introduce legislation. The chair of the
> Resource Planning and Development Commission pulp mill assessment
> panel, which had been assessing the mill until last week, verbally
> resigned after his meeting with Mr Lennon.
>
> Up here, the fox looks down on the fools
> who wish they had a
> gun.
>
>
> Prose lifted from:---
>
> Professor Andrew Wadsley: <http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php/weblog/
> comments/letter-to-the-governor/>
> Michael Pascoe: crikey.com.au
> Michael Field: <http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php/weblog/comments/
> the-potential-tragedy-for-john-howard/>
> Murdoch Mockery Newspaper:: <http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/
> 0,22884,21406490-921,00.html>