Hey Mate, Take Off Your Clothes, Grab a Shrimp off the Barbie, and Blow in the Breathalizer
I constantly, (to my wife Linda), make jokes that the nation of Australia must not have a carpenter left in it. It seems on every garden and home show on U.S. television, there is an Aussie carpenter; it’s kinda like Quigley, with a hammer, in reverse. Except he doesn’t have to kill anyone.
Perhaps, it’s this probable shortage of carpenters in Australia that has brought about another problem down under…drunk politicians.
Now we’ve all watched enough movies and television to know that in Australia, men are men, beer is beer and often the twain shall meet.
Reuters News reported yesterday, that polititions in Canberra, the nation’s most populous state were considering asking lawmakers to take a breathalizer test before voting on pending legislation. (I wonder if U.S. senators and congressmen would agree to this?)
The recommendation was made after one lawmaker resigned after getting drunk and shoving a female colleague after a Christmas party celebration. Another, (the State police minister ), was dumped from his leadership role, and a local newspaper called for breath-testing after he stripped to his underwear and danced over the chest of a female colleague after a post-budget party.
A search on-line revealed that in 2005, a security guard at the Alaska statehouse was fired after he revealed that in spite of laws against the use of alcohol in state buildings, Alaska lawmakers brought liquor and beer into the capital building to drink. It seems his bosses hated two things, a snitch and the truth.
But just think of of it, every man and woman in every statehouse and the U.S. Capitol having to prove they were sober before passing laws….we might should extend that to the staffs that help them draft the bills on their way to becoming law. Wow, clearheads while writing and passing laws. What a concept.
