.
eh, Ronnie and Frankie, if youse guys gonna letta da catta outta da bagga,
like you are just some plain common Ozzie teacha who picka da snotta outta
he nose-hole infronta da camera like da commona humanitata ('scusa mi
Esperanta), you gonna find your invitata getting withdraw quicker than an
auditor see dodgy accounts and draw he life saving outta dat bank.
To put it in the diplomatese: historical research suggests that with the world
economy going down the plug with deafening gurgle, there has to be some
counterbalancing inflation in the number of silly hats and titles dished out to
one another by hopeful nonentities and would-be heroes, heroines and
gordonbrowns, when they step up to the plastic podium and ishoo their world-
saving pronounciamenti. Why should they waste time at New York (after
handing their entire certificated and photographed life history to the airline, to
the CIA, to a universal cloudy database, and then the Russkii mafia), if they
ain't gonna get home sailing in at least a Vice-Chairpersonship with Special
Feathers, or a Chief-Rapporteur-in-Waiting ship?
Just read your devastating exposee, in the middle of looking up some bunk
about Frog diplomats visiting an Eastern Court in the 1810s, where its
empire had embarked on a century-long experiment in continuous
restructuring and decline. Just the same story -- more and bigger baloney
piled higher, silly hats for everyone, diplomats stuffed with food watching
boring spectaculars, then frog-marched through rows of mutes, yes-men,
apes, peacocks, bankers and eunuchs, for their fifteen seconds of glory
licking the gangrenous toe of the Lord of the Universe, while the court
interpreter tells them that His Gloriousness has awarded France a new billion-
piastre contract to send its army to smash up a couple of ungrateful
bordering states. (When they get back to the embassy and have finished
vomiting, and their own translator reads them the small print, it turns out they
licked the wrong toe, and France has actually been fined a billion piastres or
the heads of 173 assorted Frog prisoners will be sent to Paris by special
delivery).
"Five shared Vice Rings were created" (see below-- you have to learn to
read this UN jargon...) And you put it straight up here on Colin's Blog! Err,
maybe you should, like, go find a bush fire and hide behind it. They'll be
coming for ya...
..m99m..
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:01:32 +1100, Frank Hall-Bentick
<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >fyi.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ron McCallum
>To: Frank Hall-Bentick
>Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:29 AM
>Subject: RE: AUSTRALIAN APPOINTED INAUGURAL RAPPORTEUR TO
THE UNITED NATIONS DISABILITIES CONVENTION - 3 MARCH 2009
>
>Dear Frank,
>I fear that some confusion has been caused by the manner in which the
CRPD Committee undertook its work. There is a United Nations Special
Rapporteur on the CRPD Convention, but I am not that person. Each treaty
committee usually elects a Chair, two Vice-Chairs and one Rapporteur. Our
CRPD Committee took the unusual course of appointing two chairs,
Mohammed from Jordan for this year, and Ana from Spain for next year.
Five shared Vice-Chair positions were also created. I was given the role of
Rapporteur with respect to Convention matters which come before the CRPd
Committee, and my colleague from Qatar was made Rapporteur for matters
arising under the Optional Protocol. All that I can write is that it was the
inaugural meeting of the CRPD Committee, and everyone is on a big
learning curve.
>
>So, I remain on the CRPD Committee, the job is not paid and I will continue
to do my teaching work at the University of Sydney Law School.
>
>Best wishes
Ron McCallum
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