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Steer clear of this guy... Moogabe
 Life,
it was said by a great and wise Australian politician, was
not meant to be easy. As you'd expect he was rich, content
and didn't need to struggle on a pension.
However, spare a thought for the poor devils who ran, or
used to work on, farms in Zimbabwe (known as Rhodesia when
I was .... well, up to about 95.)
Until late last century, Rhodesia was a nation run by white
settlers and they led a pretty fair sort of lifestyle. Palatial
nursing homes, as well as free wheelchairs and dentures for
all. Then a revolution led by Robert Mugabe created the new
nation of Zimbabwe and things seemed to be coasting along
until a small matter of democracy and elections came up.
Now, in order to beat his increasingly vocal opponents, the
increasingly nasty Mugabe has allowed his former soldiers
to take all the land off the farmers - throwing them, their
families and tens of thousands of black workers out of work.
By doing this, the clever bugga has ruined Zimbabwe's economy.
But overnight, Mugabe's Mob of ex-rebels has done something
that not even the most stupid of cretins would have done.
While bickering over the best parcels of farmland, some of
Moogabe's Mob have knocked down fences - and just so happen
to have released Foot and Mouth infected cattle far and wide.
This, in effect, turns a $A74million bullish industry into
a bit of a heifer.
Now, the great Moogabe is due in Australia in the not too
distant future and there have been calls to ban him.
We can't do that - being a fair and reasonable country -
and we can ignore his penchant for human rights abuses, creating
civil wars and beating up protesters.
However, when Moogabe arrives we should make sure the quarantine
guys go over him with those new fangled meat detectors.
After all, we wouldn't want Moogabe trying to smuggle in
Foot and Mouth-infected beef to these shores - there's far
too much at steak.
If there is something that has really got up your nose,
let Grumpy Old Coot know at grumpy@webwombat.com
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