Open Forum: February 9, 2013 at Catallaxy Files

Open Forum: February 9, 2013

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February 9th, 2013 at 12:01 am

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They can remember – quiet sides of midnight

They can remember – the attraction of fame

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 12:01 am
I don’t understand but I’m second to Rabz, which is honorable.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

9 Feb 13 at 12:05 am
I’m turd I thunk

Splatacrobat

9 Feb 13 at 12:06 am
Whoo hoo! Foooooooourth!

Abu Chowdah

9 Feb 13 at 12:07 am
They thought they could keep it quiet. They thought they’d never be found out…but Channel 7 now reports:

Asylum seekers on bridging visas have been rotating through the accommodation at the Harwin Retirement Village at Salisbury for six months – at taxpayers’ expense.

Some residents at the home say they have serious safety concerns, and say the facility should only be used for aged care.
…
A village manager says the asylum seekers have set off fire alarms nine times while cooking in their rooms, sometimes at night.

And now the government acts all surprised, “we knew nothing. Must launch an investigation!”.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/sa/latest/a/-/newshome/16097787/asylum-seekers-living-at-retirement-home/

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 12:14 am
Does anyone here have a durrie for a brother to light up to thank Governor Phillip for making this space available to the descendants of the 1788 winners?

Mick Gold Coast QLD

9 Feb 13 at 12:20 am
Newspoll shows that WA Labor’s (they don’t like being call the ALP) primary vote has jumped 5% in the latest poll!

Unfortunately they took all their votes from their comrades the Greens. Suck shit commies.

http://resources.news.com.au/files/2013/02/08/1226573/915706-aus-news-file-wa-newspoll.pdf

Infidel Tiger

9 Feb 13 at 12:27 am
Marlboro or Winnie Blues, Mick? I’ve got both here.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 12:32 am
The greenists and their ALP brethren are trying to fuck the farmer in the Khyber once again:

RSPCA wants to ban saleyards.

But the final nail in the coffin for the traditional country livestock sales may not be the march of technology but the animal welfare lobby. The RSPCA is pushing to have sheep and cattle sales held at country saleyards banned.

It claims cattle suffer undue stress when they are repeatedly mustered, yarded, loaded on to trucks into town and then kept for 24 hours in cramped saleyards before auction, after which the whole process is repeated.

My grandfather was a stock auctioneer for 45 years. The cnuts proposing this ban should be hogtied, flogged with barbed wire and then salted.

Infidel Tiger

9 Feb 13 at 12:33 am
I see Gabrielle that Nw Zlnd has been brought into the circle of neighbours obliged to rescue Labor from its illegals policy.

The Tele says they’re to take a massive 150 Centrelink seekers to ease our pain, which will see us through to about next Tuesday morning.

That big sheila John Keys ought to have told her to gets tuffed.

They can have person of interest Quade Cooper back too for mine, it’d be “the right thing to do”.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

9 Feb 13 at 12:33 am
That’s amazing, Mick because during one of gillard’s many “solutions” – i think it was the Regional Solution, the one before the Malayasian Solution – gillard announced that Nu Zelund would take some asylum seekers. There was a report in the papers next day that NZ basically said err, huh? we know nothing about this.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 12:36 am
IT this would be the same RSPCA that does jack about puppy mills and backyard butchery at the end of ramadan, so you can’t expect them to do other than go for the soft target.

Who pays for the RSPCA anyway?

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 12:39 am
12th?

Cold-Hands

9 Feb 13 at 12:39 am
My grandfather was a stock auctioneer for 45 years. The cnuts proposing this ban should be hogtied, flogged with barbed wire and then salted.

Quite so, Squire.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 12:39 am
In base eleven…

Cold-Hands

9 Feb 13 at 12:40 am
“The RSPCA is pushing to have sheep and cattle sales held at country saleyards banned.”

Uh huh. The kiddies expect the farmers to flog ‘em individually on eBay now? Using pretty pictures

They RSPCA should stick to slitting the throats of abandoned cats, finishing off wounded ibis and organising bi-annual bat shooting days.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

9 Feb 13 at 12:41 am
I’m not sure when the RSPCA gave up their raison d’ etre, but it’d be a few years ago.

It seems they’ve finally lost it completely & come out as the full PETA.

Dickheads like this we don’t need.

Every now and again someone from the RSPCA phones me looking for a donation. They get comprehensively and eruditely told to get stuffed.

Steve at the Pub

9 Feb 13 at 12:43 am
The RSPCA should stick to slitting the throats of abandoned cats, finishing off wounded ibis and organising bi-annual bat shooting days.

Fun for all the family and cheap at half the price, peons!

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 12:44 am
Wish they’d organise bi-weekly possum shooting days.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 12:45 am
I’ll donate to the RSPCA, but it’s so hard to put the steam off my piss in an envelope.

Infidel Tiger

9 Feb 13 at 12:45 am
More on Dr Karl & Emmo vs Andrew Bolt:

It is true that, unlike Dr Emerson, I have no academic qualification. But it is also true that on this matter he is wrong and I am right.

Here’s what’s troubling. If someone with no academic qualifications can prove that a minister with a doctorate – and in a government advised by top scientists – is wrong in the very basic facts about global warming, what does it say about the Gillard Government and its warming policies?

I think Emerson is now obliged to answer this simple question: am I right, after all, to say there’s been no statistically significant warming since 1997?

If so, could he answer this: when the facts change, does he change his opinions?

(PS: still no admission, retraction or apology from ABC science presenter Dr Karl, either. And, yes, he too has a doctorate – yet is even more profoundly wrong than Emerson.)

Emerson’s twitter feed ramps up the sarcasm but avoids the facts.

Cold-Hands

9 Feb 13 at 12:46 am
Let ‘em catch it themselves IT. Piss on their front door and leave the rest to them.

Steve at the Pub

9 Feb 13 at 12:47 am
Gab, that’s because these bloody morons have never understood that prior to every Howard announcement came the months if not years of legwork and negotiation to make sure things would go through smoothly.

Downer may have been a plum-in-the-mouth twit and Howard may have been channelling Robert Menzies, but neither set out to be anything other than a man trying to do his best for his own country while getting along as well as possible with the neighbours; and whatever those neighbours might have thought about white Europeans in general, I think they respected that honesty. A lot.

By contrast, the utter lack of consultation and subsequent public shitfights that have gone on over the Malaysian swap etc. must be the height of public embarrassment. It doesn’t matter how hard you play at kowtowing and being “culturally respectful” – if you do this sort of bullshit, you’re going to lose brownie points fast. Methinks they’d rather deal with white people who at least have the decency to be honest with them, however blunt and uncompromising they may be. It is possible to be TOO polite.

perturbed

9 Feb 13 at 12:48 am
POLITICAL parties have been given a green light to mislead and deceive voters in taxpayer-funded electoral material, despite Julia Gillard’s pledge to introduce tougher federal regulations.

As MPs and candidates begin bombarding voters with glossy election pamphlets in the lead-up to the September 14 poll, the Australian Electoral Commission still does not have any powers to decide whether political messages published or broadcast in relation to a federal election are true or untrue.

The issue was reignited this week after the Coalition revealed in parliament that a number of MPs had mailed out electoral pamphlets from Wayne Swan stating that: “We have delivered a surplus, on time, as promised.”

Warning: story is headed with a photo of unrepentant Stalinist Lee Rhiannon, captioned “Greens senator Lee Rhiannon says voters deserve truth in advertising laws”. The subbie responsible for that piece of prize hypocrisy should get the sack…

Cold-Hands

9 Feb 13 at 12:56 am
Wish they’d organise bi-weekly possum shooting days.

Gab – your obsessive dislike of certain cuddly, cute and harmless native critters has been noticed.

I’ve owned mammals who were also huge fans of those aforementioned li’l critters, except when they weren’t, which was always.

Funny, that.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 1:08 am
The cnuts proposing this ban should be hogtied, flogged with barbed wire and then salted.

Correction: the cnuts implementing this ban should be hogtied, flogged with barbed wire and then salted.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 1:45 am
No, do the same to the proposers as well, CL. You’re getting soft.

squawkbox

9 Feb 13 at 1:56 am
The pressure is now on the Australian Crime Commission to produce names and charges that substantiate its spin-doctored media presentation on Thursday that Australian sport is awash with organised crime and illegal performance drugs.

As it stands, it looks like the ACC is grandstanding to justify its very expensive existence by smearing the sporting community as corrupt and malevolent, enthusiastically supported by two doomed Labor ministers, Clare and Lundy, who were happy this week to throw a bucket on sports lovers and embrace yet another unicorn-style distraction from their government’s incompetence and unpopularity in an election year.

Time to put up or shut up:

WAYNE Bennett has turned the finger of blame directly back on doping authorities in the wake of yesterday’s disturbing drug allegations, asking: “If we’ve got the drug problems we’ve had, what’s the drug agency been doing?”

Speaking before the NRL All Stars’ final training run at Suncorp Stadium last night, Bennett questioned why the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority was not being scrutinised following the Australian Crime Commission’s report that claimed “widespread” use of illegal substances.

“That’s my beef with this – if we’ve got the drug problems we’ve had, well, what’s the drug agency been doing?” an angry Bennett said of ASADA.

“We pay them a lot of money to come into our sport. We made a lot of compromises for them to come into our sport. And now they’re telling us we’ve got a problem.”

TheTele says the NRL pays the anti-doping agency about $500,000 a year to conduct more than 800 urine and blood tests. That does not include the thousands of dollars clubs individually spend on in-house testing.

Penrith general manager Phil Gould told Channel 9: “This report from the Crime Commission is full of words like ‘maybe’, ‘could be’, ‘suspected’ and ‘potential’.

“Nobody has been named, no club has been named and no sport has been named. It’s a broad-brush condemnation of Australian sport everywhere.

“At the moment, everyone is guilty and I’m not sure, even if they find pockets of illegality, how you repair the integrity of everyone else who is in fact innocent.”

Bennett was equally bemused at the code being broadly smeared from the release of the ACC report. “That’s the tragedy of yesterday (Thursday),” Bennett said. “We all look like we’re on drugs and we’re all using illicit substances.

“The shock for me was the way they handled it. They handled it very badly yesterday. There was an opportunity to get some real evidence. To bring the CEOs and get their co-operation.

“There were a lot of accusation, a lot of mud being thrown, obviously they hope some of it will stick.”

Tom

9 Feb 13 at 5:08 am
Professional do-gooder Ian Kiernan has come out as an environmentalist hysteric who wants to shut down Sydney’s annual New Year’s Eve cracker night:

Mr Kiernan, a former Australian of the Year, said the fireworks display on Sydney Harbour should be phased out over three years and replaced with a laser show because it pollutes the harbour and neighbouring suburbs with large amounts of carbon dioxide and solid waste.

”There’s a world trend to get away from fireworks,” he said, citing Hong Kong’s nightly laser attraction, A Symphony of Lights, as inspiration.

Mr Kiernan established the Friends of Sydney Harbour committee with several high-profile friends, including Liberal frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull, late last year to act as a ”watchdog” for Sydney’s majestic waterway.

The group has already successfully campaigned against a proposed floating heliport on the harbour. Mr Kiernan will put his light show plan to the group and the City of Sydney Council soon.

He said he had been concerned about the environmental fallout from the fireworks show for years, but was galvanised to act after a Herald report about dozens of plastic fireworks cartridges washing up on the north shore in early January.

”We don’t want to deny entertainment to the citizens of Sydney, we just want to replace yesterday’s polluting displays with tomorrow’s non-polluting displays which can be just as dramatic,” Mr Kiernan said.

Tom

9 Feb 13 at 5:38 am
The casting of Justice Minister Jason Clare as the chief talking head in the drugs and crime in sport circus on Thursday (”The findings are shocking and will disgust Australian sports fans”) was a carefully scripted component of Labor’s attempt to avoid electoral annihilation in western Sydney.

Gillard recently appointed Clare chief interferer in western Sydney’s gun violence with a brief to provide options for the federal rabble to appear to be acting. Now McTernan has appoint ShakeMyHead.com’s Peter Harcher as Clare’s campaign manager:

Enter Clare, cast as the federal enforcer. He does bear a likeness to the actor who played the unstoppable, metallic Terminator in the second movie in that franchise.

He is, gratefully, older than he appears, at 40, a law graduate, recently married, disappointing the female members of the press gallery who have dubbed him the Minister for Hotness.

Clare holds Blaxland by 12.2%, which means he’ll be drowned in the tsunami if there’s a Queensland-style rout.

Tom

9 Feb 13 at 6:09 am
“Nobody has been named, no club has been named and no sport has been named. It’s a broad-brush condemnation of Australian sport everywhere.

“At the moment, everyone is guilty and I’m not sure, even if they find pockets of illegality, how you repair the integrity of everyone else who is in fact innocent.”

The epsilon males are having their revenge on the alpha males. That’s what this is about.

There’s no doubt some of the alpha males are a little TOO alpha (this is why we get things like NRL “stars” glassing their girlfriends, taking 13 year olds to their hotel rooms and gang-raping starstruck female fans) and need their hormonal wings clipped, preferably by long stints at Her Majesty’s pleasure, but ultimately it’s about the systematic emasculation of Australian society by resentful drones who make Kevin Rudd look like every character Arnold Schwarzenegger ever played, rolled into one.

perturbed

9 Feb 13 at 6:23 am
Seeing how Mr Clare is so anti cheating, so disgusted at connections with organized crime and so totally against people who rig events to clean up by betting, can we ask the following of Mr Clare:

Have you ever taken money from Mr Obeid? If so can you guarantee it wasn’t obtained illegally?
If 5 criminals in a common group is a crime gang why hasn’t the NSW ALP been named a criminal gang?
Will you investigate the people who bet that Sept 14 would be the date of the Federal Election just before the PM named the date?

Seems like the ALP is all the things that Mr Clare hates.

John Comnenus

9 Feb 13 at 6:57 am
Heart-warming to see how dedicated the A.L.P.’s Jason Clare and Kate Lundy are against cheating in sport.

They stand in front of the cameras, pointing their fingers at Australian sports men and women and cry: “YOU LOT are all dirty cheats.”

Given that they both belong to Eddie Obeid’s A.L.P., and that their “team” won the last Federal Election with the blatantly fraudulent promise: “There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead”, who is the bigger liar and cheat?

Which is worse – the sports man or woman whose dishonesty alters the result of a meaningless game, or the wallet-stuffing, purse-padding, pocket-lining A.L.P. party-hack whose dishonesty perverts the governance of a nation?

How many dedicated Australian athletes would be on a salary, pension, superannuation and lurks, perks, schemes and scams package that rivals that of Jason Clare or Kate Lundy? What beneficial service have THEY ever provided for Australia’s international reputation?

For THEM to point the finger of condemnation at an Australian athlete and cry foul, is like an axe-murderer squealing for the cops when somebody moves their Monopoly token one spot more than the dice allowed.

Up The Workers!

9 Feb 13 at 7:20 am
I knew there was a reason that I don’t read ShakeMyHead.com:

Even in the last century, before contraception and infertility were properly understood, childlessness was blamed on the female, with wealthy families paying poorer ones to provide heirs. When the pill was made widely available in 1961, all this changed. About the same time women began to enter the workforce, parenthood was delayed until later in life, and having children – as the costs of education spiralled – became increasingly expensive.

An ONS study in 2010 found that just one in nine women born in 1938 remained childless, rising to one in five women born in 1965. It is projected that a quarter of 45-year-olds will be childless by 2018.

Nowadays, parenting is an industry, buoyed by mother-and-baby groups, self-help books and web forums such as Mumsnet, filled with opinionated parents debating the pros and cons of reusable nappies, baby iPads and stay-at-home dads. Parenthood has been elevated to the aspirational; a sort of exclusive, members-only club that sees those who don’t have children as selfish or individualistic.

Let’s see, wealthy families paying poor women? Not so last century – check out the womb factories in India, for example.

And why are so many older women going to be childless? Well, there is such a thing as biology, and women don’t get told too much about that. There is still the pervasive idea that you can have it all.

You can’t. Not if you want to raise your children to be functioning adults.

As for the parenting industry, what do they expect? When the community networks have been broken right down, then of course the market will find a way to fill that niche.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 7:32 am
John Comnenus, you say that it seems that the A.L.P. is all the things that Jason Clare hates.

That great American philosopher and Juliar Gillard look-alike, Groucho Marx once famously said: “I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members!”

Clare should have resigned the second they accepted his application. Not to have done so, is proof of HIS low standards, AND theirs.

It can’t be too comfy living in Obeid’s pockets, but at least he’s got plenty of friends.

Obeid is the Australian version of Victor Kiam, the late U.S. millionaire whose famous quote about Remington was: “I liked the shaver so much, I bought the company.”

Obeid liked the graft and corruption so much, he bought the A.L.P., and they threw in half their pollies as a job-lot. He and the A.L.P. have been giving the taxpayers a shave ever since.

Good to see that he poked his head out of Obeid’s pocket long enough to slag Australian athletes. I’m sure they’ll be suitably chastened.

I wonder what Oily Al Grassby’s Griffith benefactors think of the A.L.P.’s newly acquired “dislike” of drugs?

Up The Workers!

9 Feb 13 at 7:36 am
Last night I popped in briefly, fired off a gripe about Grey, and went to bed. Update: agree Rabz, unexpectedly Grey made a sensible comment or two, so, and may have some glimmer of hope attaching to him for future similar events – so I’ll say sorry, for now.

Blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 7:43 am
As for the parenting industry, what do they expect?

Nilk,

That reminds me of an email doing the rounds, which I received yesterday – a story related by an Australian doctor:

A woman in her late 20′s came to the hospital today with her 8th pregnancy.

She said to me “My mum told me that I am the breadwinner for the family.”

I asked her to explain.

She said that she can make babies and babies get money from the Government for the family.

It goes like this:

The Grandma calls the Department of child services and Centrelink, and states that the unemployed daughter is not capable of caring for all of her kids. And they agree, then tells her the children will need to go into foster care.

The Grandma then volunteers to be the foster parent, and receives a cheque for $400 per child each month.

Total yearly income: $72000pa and soon to be more when the 8th one is born, tax-free and nobody has to go to work!

In fact, they get more if there is no husband/father/man in the home! The brother does not count.

Not to mention free dental treatment, free housing, free school dinners, free tuition fees at college or Uni, free eye care and glasses, free prescriptions and various other benefits…

Total value of all benefits combined probably approaching $120,000 per annum.

That’s about my salary as a senior consultant with years of experience and surgical skills in a Melbourne teaching hospital.

Indeed, Grandma was correct that her fertile daughter is the “breadwinner” for the family.

…When this generous programme was invented in the ’60s, the Great Society architects forgot to craft an end date… and now we are hopelessly overrun with people who vote only for those who will continue to keep them on the dole…

No wonder our country is broke!

Worse, our Muslim brothers have been paying attention, and by mandating that each Muslim family have eleven children, they will soon replace the voting bloc above and can be running this country in around 12 years.

The One Nation paranoia at the end is a little extreme, but I have no doubt the scenario is real.

Tom

9 Feb 13 at 7:56 am
Obeid liked the graft and corruption so much, he bought the A.L.P., and they threw in half their pollies as a job-lot. He and the A.L.P. have been giving the taxpayers a shave ever since.

Every single parliamentary ALP hack has been bought and paid for by the Unions. There is NOT ONE of them who is their own person, who can hold their head up and say I am here because I believed in service to the nation. No matter the slings and arrows they cannot have a conscience because caucus has no conscience and the party has no conscience. Orwell could have used the ALP as his inspiration.

They are there only for the Union, the party and themselves and service to the nation doesn’t even enter into it is a WTF notion.

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 8:02 am
I’ve become somewhat distrustful of movies dealing with supposedly real events, as Bolt has ( see his piece on Lincoln and Rabbit Proof Fence), and Oliver Stone has much to answer for.
The current offering on the Bin Laden raid called Zero Dark Thirty lays claim to being at least “based on a true story” but I’ll approach it with some trepidation, given the propensity of Hollywood to portray anything to do with anti- terrorim in a bad light.
Reviews have been enthusiastic, so it will at least be an action session after a longish build up as the search by more tricky intelligence methods took years.

Blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 8:03 am
Yes, I’ve seen that one too, Tom. Considering how over-generous our benefits are here, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was truth in (email) advertising.

The number of payments are astounding.

Let’s see, parenting payment, family tax benefit parts A & B, rent assistance, maternal immunity payment (one-off), PBS (sure it’s about $5-$6 a fortnight, but that’s still a happy meal to shut the kids up), once a year you get a $25 payment for your phone concession, there is also extra money for multiple births, and for larger families.

If your husband/partner is in jail then you get a bit extra on your Centrelink payment also.

Add to all that the concessions you get with that golden card: rego, water bill, winter concession on your power, public transport fares, cinema/theatre tickets, bulk billing preference in medical centres, and if you can get into the public dental system you can get a root canal carried out for less than $100.

Oh yes, and there’s the EMA, the Educational Maintenance Allowance. Sure it’s only about $100 a year, but that’s on school fees, so can free up a few dollars there.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 8:06 am
As it stands, it looks like the ACC is grandstanding to justify its very expensive existence by smearing the sporting community as corrupt and malevolent, enthusiastically supported by two doomed Labor ministers, Clare and Lundy, who were happy this week to throw a bucket on sports lovers and embrace yet another unicorn-style distraction from their government’s incompetence and unpopularity in an election year.

Little time at the moment to lurk, let along post but I’d have to agree. As soon as I heard about this corruption and drugs in sport I immediately thought how advantageous the timing was to get certain criminally-inclined Labor identities off the front pages of the newspapers.

As a distraction it did its job, and I’d be interested in finding out just what sort of political pressure was applied for the findings to be released now – or just how long the Government may have been sitting on the findings, waiting for a convenient moment to release them.

Always with this Government you need to dig deeper in order to get at the truth. Acting all holier-than-thou and pointing the finger at corruption in sport, when a far deeper and more malignant corruption exists within Government is…well, sick making.

A Lurker

9 Feb 13 at 8:09 am
There is still the pervasive idea that you can have it all.

But nilk you can — and so can men — but not all at the same time.

These poor silly girls are told at school they can be whatever they want, that they are brilliant, that men are dumb and women are the font of all wisdom, beauty, brains, goodness, piety, rightfullness, simply because they are women.

That the man who will ‘partner’ them must be strong but gentle, strong but weak, subservient but assertive, masculine but feminine,because they deserve it. Little wonder blokes are a little shy of commitment.

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 8:14 am
Strop, you may not have seen yesterday’s comically anti-American review of Zero Dark Thirty by the Age-ABC production-line zombie academic Waleed Aly (a.k.a. Animal from the Muppets band):

Whatever Kathryn Bigelow’s intention with Zero Dark Thirty, her new blockbuster about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, one fact is inescapable: this is a pro-torture film.

Tom

9 Feb 13 at 8:24 am
The cnuts proposing this ban should be hogtied, flogged with barbed wire and then salted.

IT that is just too good for them == and please don’t use the name of the sainted Cnut in vain, that could be classed as a mortal sin around my lunar-scape—

You really need to get to know Cnut the Great — you would like him I am sure.

He is my go-to guy on glowball warminating — When I was at school I knew him as King Canute and he was given much bad press as a son-of-a-bitch arrogant turkey who believed he could hold back the tide. Not so he was the original skeptic. Ten centuries later he’s still right and we have some real sons-of-a-bitch arrogant turkeys who believe Man causes the climate to change.

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 8:26 am
Unfortunately reading film reviews from Waleed Aly on the Age or ABC is itself a form of torture. So I am surprised that Waleed Aly is anti torture. After all Mrs Aly, dolled up in her headscarf throughout the hot summer, might consider her attire torture – but that is all cool with Waleed Aly. Aly is a moron.

John Comnenus

9 Feb 13 at 8:53 am
Cnut the Great

His father was Sweyn Forkbeard.
Well, forkme I’ve been educated.

Rudiau

9 Feb 13 at 9:09 am
I immediately thought how advantageous the timing was to get certain criminally-inclined Labor identities off the front pages of the newspapers.

I have no confidence in any of the institutions at all any more. My cynicism is way beyond extreme, what’s beyond extreme? extremely extreme?

We are sent on a hunt for other words to describe what is happening at the moment, even those used sparingly and infrequently just aren’t adequate.

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 9:12 am
Well, forkme I’ve been educated.

Rudiau, that’s why I visit, the Collective Cat knows everything.

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 9:19 am
what’s beyond extreme?

extremely extreme to the power of eleventy…

Anyway, must leave youse to it.

Those bloody pavers aren’t going to lay themselves, the buggers.

Here’s hoping it’s not another stinker in the ‘ville…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 9:24 am
From The Oz letters page today:

NEW Zealand Climate Science Coalition spokesman Bryan Leyland has explained the problem as neatly as I have ever seen.
“Carbon trading is the only commodity trading where it is impossible to establish with reasonable accuracy how much is being bought and sold, where the commodity that is traded is invisible and can perform no useful purpose for the purchaser, and where both parties benefit if the quantities traded have been exaggerated . . . it is therefore an open invitation to fraud and that is exactly what is happening all over the world.”
If the world were heating in step with the carbon dioxide content of the air, I would be concerned. However, as if to emphasise the variability, British peer Andrew Turnbull mentioned that Arctic ice coverage is now back to where it was in January 2007. This follows Theodor Landscheidt’s prediction that we should be preparing for a 2030 little ice age.

Sirocco

9 Feb 13 at 9:25 am
I immediately thought how advantageous the timing was to get certain criminally-inclined Labor identities off the front pages of the newspapers

I’ve been wondering what other bad news these deceitful lying pricks have been releasng while the news attention is focussed elsewhere.
The mining tax blowout is one thing, but is anyone keeping track?

papachango

9 Feb 13 at 9:27 am
Let’s see now: Zero Dark Thirty is a pro-torture film, but terrorism involving any number of deaths by any means, and any amount of destruction, is just a criminal matter perpetrated by a small number of misunderstanders. Right?

blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 9:28 am
Weedy should be tortured.

Ban him from all the media, that’ll do it.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 9:35 am
kae, I knew of some LTTE chappies and chappesses who’d have been delighted to while away a few months torturing Weedy.

Happily for Weedy, though, the Sri Lankans hanged ‘em.

Mk50 of Brisbane

9 Feb 13 at 9:49 am
Ah, Waleed Aly, a smoother go-to guy than Keysar Trad, who’s back from the wilderness after getting Alan Jones into re-education.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 9:52 am
TdL,
Lol. How about a bit of pig-latin then. Untcay or just untc.

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Speaking of fishing poles up thread.
This fisher doesn’t need one, just the bread bait.

Rudiau

9 Feb 13 at 9:53 am
Gee, MK50. That’s a shame.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 9:58 am
nilk

I thought the media had just lost his number, after all, that’s the only reason he’s a talking head for “his community”.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 9:59 am
Via Bolt – Dr Benjamin Carson dares to condemn PC in front of the President. Stand by for a torrent of left condemnation.
PC is a disease which weakens our society.
Not content with that slap-down, he then deals the rabbit chop to victimhood, endorsing self-determination.
Then a straight jab at the dumbing down of education, and the vulnerability that follows. A slap to lawyers thrown in for good measure.
Michelle claps regularly, the preshizzle doesn’t.
He throws a bone to Obama in saying we’ve started to go towards good health care. But he proposes a form of health fund savings.
A couple of feints and a nod to bipartisanship, then he finishes with a right cross to the jaw with a patriotic re-telling of the star-spangled banner incident from the war of 1812.

blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 10:03 am
one fact is inescapable: this is a pro-torture film.

I thought it was pro-hunting down terrorist masterminds and killing them.

Silly me.

boy on a bike

9 Feb 13 at 10:04 am
Rudiau – thats rude at 9.53. I can speak pig latin.

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 10:04 am
I’ll be on Radio National tomorrow morning from about 9.15 – 10.

Sinclair Davidson

9 Feb 13 at 10:04 am
Blogstrop,
I quite enjoyed ZDT, though it could of been 15 minutes shorter. The torture scenes went on a bit to long (we get it, we get it) however all in all not a bad experience. Acting very good, action scenes professional.

Worth the $11.00 spent viewing on tight ass Tuesday!

Woolfe

9 Feb 13 at 10:06 am
Sinclair, have you heard from Bunyip? Do you know when he will return to the Billabong?

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 10:08 am
Zero Dark Thirty was an okay film. Not what I would call a blockbuster. I gave it a 6/10.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 10:10 am
Do you know when he will return to the Billabong?

Not sure – he goes through phases where he is inspired to blog a lot and phases where he is inspired to go camping, play golf, etc.

Sinclair Davidson

9 Feb 13 at 10:12 am
Kae, I suspect that Trad was quiet because he’d been told to shut up, but with his persisting in the lawfare against Jones he got his talking head badge back. When it was in the news about Trad’s win in the courts after all these years (after all the ‘context’ had been washed out, of course) I predicted that we’d be seeing more of him.

I still stand by that. Aly is more polished and has the advantage of being born here and speaking the aussie lingo with an ease that Trad doesn’t have.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 10:12 am
No need to re-open the asylums. The colleges have picked up the slack.

I need to get a bumper sticker that says, “The stupid… it burns!”

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 10:13 am
Wonder how much gillard is paying Key to take 150 asylum seekers. She’s such a great negoshhator.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 10:15 am
Those of you following the Police Officer shootings in the US will be pleased to find that the crazy mans manifesto is 22 pages long, not 11. The MSM has removed some of the pages to spare them telling us what he’s cranky about.
Linky thing…

Winston Smith

9 Feb 13 at 10:19 am
Gab
I see it spelt negoshhator, but shouldn’t it be negoshhador?

kae

9 Feb 13 at 10:27 am
It’s fluid. Kae. Depends on whether it’s being screeched gillard-like in Parliament or with faux restraint as when gillard speaks at a press conference.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 10:29 am
Sinclair, I’ve been trying to locate your interview on 774 this week to no avail.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 10:32 am
Newspoll shows that WA Labor’s (they don’t like being call the ALP) primary vote has jumped 5% in the latest poll!

Unfortunately they took all their votes from their comrades the Greens. Suck shit commies.

http://resources.news.com.au/files/2013/02/08/1226573/915706-aus-news-file-wa-newspoll.pdf

Barnett is one of the good Liberal Premiers, opposed to Red Ted.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 10:32 am
I would rather die than shut up.

~ Lars Hedegaard.

Can we have that as a Liberty Quote, Sinc? Please?

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 11:03 am
blogstrop
9 Feb 13 at 10:03 am

Via Bolt – Dr Benjamin Carson dares to condemn PC in front of the President.

Michelle claps regularly, the preshizzle doesn’t.

At one stage, Obama was sitting with his eyes closed, like you do in a really boring lecture after a night on the piss, only you can’t put your head on the desk and sleep properly because you’re sitting in the front row.

I guess he doesn’t have to pretend any more.

Eddystone

9 Feb 13 at 11:03 am
Gab – http://www.abc.net.au/overnights/stories/s3195542.htm?

Sinclair Davidson

9 Feb 13 at 11:14 am
Wonder how much gillard is paying Key to take 150 asylum seekers. She’s such a great negoshhator.

From what I heard on the car radio the 150 is now part of NZ’s normal intake of 750.

750!!!!!! compared to our near 14000 and soon to be 20,000.

I suspect the expenses of security checks for those 150 will be saved as Oz spooks will have already cleared and okayed them.

The real point is that it’s a lot of superficially positive hot air news which in reality amounts to a big ZERO.

Classic Gillard fare.

Well not quite.

Here for once not a lot could go wrong.

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 11:14 am
Sorry – gab. that was the time before.

Sinclair Davidson

9 Feb 13 at 11:15 am
Yes, Thanks Sinclair. I noted it was an earlier version but I guess not much has changed, all things being equal in the greater scheme of things taxation, since 2011?

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 11:17 am
“If you don’t accept excuses, pretty soon people will stop giving them and they start looking for solutions.”

I’m loving Dr. Carlson, and I’m only at 8.20.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 11:18 am
I’m loving Dr. Carlson, Me too! I’m at 11.49 becuase I keep stopping to let what he says sink in.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 11:19 am
“If you don’t accept excuses, pretty soon people will stop giving them and they start looking for solutions. And that is a critical issue when it comes to success.”

Full quote.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 11:19 am
”There’s a world trend to get away from fireworks,” he said, citing Hong Kong’s nightly laser attraction, A Symphony of Lights, as inspiration.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=fireworks+hong+kong&hl=en&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=oJYVUb_6HIasiAfGloDgAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&biw=1680&bih=890

Infidel Tiger

9 Feb 13 at 11:22 am
God’s stock now seems firmly ensconced over 100 bucks a share.

Monsanto feeding the worlds masses and making lots of money doing so.

If corporations could go to heaven this would be the first one through the gates.

http://www.google.com/m/finance#search/Mon

JC

9 Feb 13 at 11:24 am
Gab – probably not. I’ve emailed to see if I can get the latest podcast.

Sinclair Davidson

9 Feb 13 at 11:27 am
Thank you.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 11:28 am
I have a video at home that dramatises Ben Carson’s life, called “gifted hands”
Very religious chap. But has actually conducted pretty incredible feats of surgery that border on the miraculous.

Entropy

9 Feb 13 at 11:30 am
I love Dr Carson three – have listened twice all the way through and emailed it around to all the youngsters I know telling them to just get over the fact he loves Jesus and listen to the man.

Now it’s people like Dr Carson who clearly show what’s wrong with our political system. Why is it that the husks float to the top? Because they’re empty – bereft of vision, character, strength, integrity, depth, ~~breadth~~ (Gillard has breadth) morality, discipline and decency.

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 11:32 am
Gab

Wifey finally got the cushions. I’ll send sinc a pic and may be good enough to send it on one day.
See what you think?

JC

9 Feb 13 at 11:36 am
Good article by Ross Fitzgerald in the Australian:

FREE speech is fundamental to freedom and the very basis of democracy. All ideas, whether great or small, common or controversial, benefit from debate. Silencing argument, by contrast, is counterproductive and dangerous. It closes minds, forecloses options and ultimately risks removing effective political power from the hands of the citizenry.

Yet history demonstrates a pronounced tendency among committed ideologues of all types to silence anyone who disagrees with them. In Australia and the West, it is the so-called progressives from whom free-speech advocates have the most to fear.

The shrillness that defines the attempt by the Gillard government to “tighten up” all our anti-discrimination legislation is a discouraging sign that freedom of speech is at risk. Most concerning is the power of many on the Left, including the so-called red Greens, who would prefer all of us to think alike or keep quiet if we don’t. In recent years we have been foolishly allowing legislative, social and other sanctions to be added to those that traditionally send unwelcome political ideas to the sidelines.

You won’t find anything like it in Fairfax publications.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 11:37 am
Bouncer may not find work again:

Elderly man charged with bouncer assault.

A 90-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with assaulting a security guard outside a Canberra bar.

The man, from the suburb of Turner, allegedly punched a bouncer outside a Northbourne Avenue bar, after a fight with staff about 1am (AEDT) on Saturday, police said…

He was given bail and is due to appear in court on February 26, charged with three counts of common assault.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 11:37 am
I’m going to have to watch Waiting For Superman again after Dr. Carson.

Here’s his scholarship program, btw.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 11:37 am
lol yeah that would good, JC.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 11:38 am
The HK lights are lame as. If a city is going to do fireworks, it may as well do it properly.

nic

9 Feb 13 at 11:39 am
Bouncer may not find work again:

Elderly man charged with bouncer assault.

A nice change indeed and I’ll wager the bouncer didn’t end up in the emergency room of the local hospital on life support with severe life-changing brain-damage either.

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 11:39 am
Aviation experts: Iranian ‘jet’ a toy that can’t even fly.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 11:40 am
Obama looks like someone dropped a deuce in the punchbowl during Carson’s speech.

Infidel Tiger

9 Feb 13 at 11:42 am
Eigth-grade exam paper from 1895.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 11:44 am
Besotted watermelon fruitloop Barking Betty Farrelly tires of blog assassinations and travels to London in an apparent attempt to get laid by the albino womaniser who has taken the Ecuador embassy hostage:

I expected to find him self-absorbed, humourless and rather vain. Instead he was warm, engaging, unpretentious, intelligent and frank. It’s not relevant, but I liked him.

Tom

9 Feb 13 at 11:48 am
Gab, I’ve got my dad’s mathematics textbooks from when he was an apprentice techy in the 50s. There are four of them, and I’ve never been game to attempt them

Maths was never my strong suit. I’ve got Mum’s algebra textbook, also, and it’s 2 inches thick with no photos or little boxes on the side to highlight things. Just pages and pages of small, dense text outlining what you need to learn and a crapload of exercises to make sure you learn it.

I used Mum’s book in year 9 because the teacher couldn’t explain algebra in a way that I could understand.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 11:48 am
6th grade final exam 1890.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 11:51 am
Here is a nomination for a Liberty Clip – Senator Rand Paul asks an EPA bureaucrat why he isn’t allowed to buy a toilet that flushes properly.

Only about 5 mins – well worth a look.

johanna

9 Feb 13 at 11:52 am
That neurosurgeon completely owned Obummer and Obummer did not like it one bit.

It’s the little things that make life so surprisingly delicious at times.

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 11:52 am
Waleed Aly tut tuting about ‘its a film that condones torture’. So nice to see our Muslim spokespeople thinking about rights and morals. Left out of course is the right of people to travel without risk of being killed for the simple reason that they are ‘unbelievers’, the right of Christians to worship in peace, the rights of girls to attend schools etc etc.

nic

9 Feb 13 at 11:52 am
Walt Disney was anything but The Perfect American, according to the dark and haunted portrayal of his last days in Philip Glass’s new opera, which has just finished its premiere run at the Teatro Real, Madrid.

The left never sleeps, and they can’t leave anything or anyone alone.

blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 11:53 am
One of Ol’ Leathery’s favourite sons, Mark Kenny, seems to be enjoying his new freedoms at Fauxfacts as much as a post-op Labor senator’s partner. Always one from the Mark “How can we help you Prime Minister” Riley school of political reporting, Mark does his bit here.

Of course it is not just the Labor party who needs help, there are old friends who need a hand too,

Income figures supplied by the government show some electorates set to be crucial in the election have large numbers of people earning less than $37,000.

These include Tony Windsor’s New South Wales seat of New England, which has 27,000 people earning under $37,000, and the government’s most marginal seat in the country, Corangamite, with about 25,000.

I’m sure it won’t make any difference but thanks for trying.

H B Bear

9 Feb 13 at 11:53 am
SMH runs story on Aleppo sniper with her “dragunov rifle”.

Funny, looks just like an SLR to me..

boy on a bike

9 Feb 13 at 11:56 am
I loved Carson’s comment about the tithing of ten billion dollars vis-a-vis the tithing of ten dollars.

‘Hey, that’s not fair – his tenth doesn’t hurt him as much.’

Carson: ‘Why do we have to HURT him? He’s putting a billion dollars into the pot.’

That must have stuck in the Kenyan’s craw like the antler in Mrs Dangerfield’s chocolate mousse.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 11:57 am
Instead he was warm, engaging, unpretentious, intelligent and frank. It’s not relevant, but I liked him.

“Ooh … Betty … you look so hot today”

“Kiss me, K-julian.”

Septimus

9 Feb 13 at 12:00 pm
6th grade final exam 1890.

I particularly liked question No 4 in the Geography section. So relevant today — I wonder what the correct answer was in 1890.

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 12:01 pm
Nice one Septimus.

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 12:03 pm
Senor Assange has always had an … er … certain way with the ladies of the Left. That’s why he is in a London basement to begin with.

H B Bear

9 Feb 13 at 12:05 pm
wow.. lots of interesting history in the Cnuts..

One of his sons, Harthacnut, became the last Danish King of England.

duncanm

9 Feb 13 at 12:06 pm
Besotted watermelon fruitloop Barking Betty Farrelly tires of blog assassinations and travels to London in an apparent attempt to get laid by the albino womaniser who has taken the Ecuador embassy hostage:

Bolt says
I cannot believe SMH readers are so childish, so indifferent to allegations of rape, so prone to hero worship and so disdainful of evidence and nuance that they deserve what Farrelly offers.

I can and they do.

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 12:07 pm
4. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.

LOL.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 12:09 pm
Meet Jason

Cabinet Secretary, Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Justice and Federal Member for Blaxland
Jason was born and raised in Western Sydney where he attended Cabramatta Public School and Canley Vale High School before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales.
Before entering Parliament he worked as a senior adviser to NSW Premier Bob Carr and as an executive at Transurban, one of Australia’s top 100 companies.
In November 2007, Jason was elected as the Federal Member for Blaxland. In June 2009, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Employment. In September 2010, he was appointed Minister for Defence Materiel. In December 2011, he was appointed Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Justice. Jason was appointed Cabinet Secretary in February 2013. Jason is the Patron of CLAN (Care Leavers Australia Network), the Bankstown City Relay for Life, the Bankstown Sports Club, and the Bankstown RSL. He also sits on the Executive Committee of St Judes Men’s Refuge.

stackja

9 Feb 13 at 12:11 pm
The left never sleeps, and they can’t leave anything or anyone alone.

Last night there was something on Senator McCarthy on SBS. One review I read sold the program as a study of the man’s paranoia and “quixotic” campaign against communists. Well, he wasn’t paranoid – he was 100 percent right. If by “quixotic” they mean not that his campaign was romantic but that it was arrayed against an imaginary windmill, they are – of course – lying.

The left never sleeps, and they can’t leave anything or anyone alone.

Which is why I wrote above that proposals to ban cattle saleyards should result in consequences for the governments and creampuff political parties that are pushed around by these groups. No, Squawk – I’m not getting soft. Quite the opposite. Lunatic lefties can be expected to behave like lunatic lefties. But when a Liberal government in Victoria implements such a ban, that’s what makes me angry nowadays. I am sick and tired of Liberal governments repealing nothing and, in fact, worsening the erosion of our freedoms.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 12:12 pm
Johanna’s Rand Paul toilet flushing link here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELDHaeEsNF0

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 12:16 pm
While happy to pretend that sodomy is equivalent to sexual intercourse as a foundation for marriage…

Cameron condemns ‘shocking’ horse meat scandal.

Prime Minister David Cameron has called the revelations “completely unacceptable” and “very shocking”.

“People will be very angry to find out they have been eating horse when they thought they were eating beef,” he said.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 12:20 pm
“Elderly man charged with bouncer assault.”

I doubt a bouncer would hurt a 90 year old man, he would lose his job.

candy

9 Feb 13 at 12:22 pm
Re horse meat…

Rolling Stones, 1970 – “Bitch”:

I’m feeling so tired, can’t understand it
Just had a fortnight’s sleep
I’m feeling so tired, Ow!, so distracted
Ain’t touched a thing all week

I’m feelin’ drunk, juiced up and sloppy
Ain’t touched a drink all night
Feeling hungry, can’t see the reason
Just had a horsemeat pie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRsFd1PbeQ4

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 12:23 pm
Under a Coalition government, every cabinet submission will once more contain a regulation impact statement that quantifies the compliance costs imposed and contains matching compliance cost cuts.

Every year, there will be a Deregulation Report tabled in the parliament and two sitting days will be dedicated to the repeal of redundant legislation and review of regulations. To ensure that deregulation is taken seriously, I will take responsibility for deregulation out of the Department of Finance and into the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet so that it will be a whole-of-government focus.

If the people running businesses have more time for innovation because they spend less time on paper work, productivity will go up. That is why these deregulation measures are such an important productivity boost.

http://www.liberal.org.au/Share/eBooks/StrongAustralia.pdf

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 12:26 pm
Besotted watermelon fruitloop Barking Betty Farrelly tires of blog assassinations and travels to London

De carbons. Won’t someone tink of the carbons?

boy on a bike

9 Feb 13 at 12:32 pm
I don’t understand the panic about horse meat. It has been eaten all over Europe and in the UK for a long time (in the UK especially during WWII and in the immediate post-war period). It is still popular in France and a few other countries.

My parents tell me that it is very similar to beef, but lower in fat.

OK, meat substitution is naughty, but FGS as long as it is slaughtered and cooked properly it is just meat, folks. No need for massive retrospective retching. By all accounts, nobody has been made sick.

Thanks for fixing my link, C.L.

johanna

9 Feb 13 at 12:33 pm
Proud moment for Gillard the Grate Negoshater and the compassionate ALP:

150 asylum seekers to be shipped off to New Zealand.

Well, at least they’re not being sent to Malaysia to be whipped and raped.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 12:34 pm
If the people running businesses have more time ~~for innovation~~ just to have a bloody rest and see their families because they spend less time on paper work, productivity will go up.

Keith

9 Feb 13 at 12:39 pm
What the hell happened in the Botha/Williams fight?

Botha was beating the living daylights out of the idiot and they they cut the bout from 12 to 10 rounds and declare the besieged Williams the winner?

Someone has been paid off.

TAB refunds bets.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 12:48 pm
President Executioner and still the writer finds a way to drag Bush into it.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 12:51 pm
SMH runs story on Aleppo sniper with her “dragunov rifle”.

Funny, looks just like an SLR to me..

from BOAB.

You are dead right, BOAB it is an SLR (FN-FAL) and the telescopic sight has the shoddiest looking mount I have ever seen. Looks like a another BS propaganda photo out of the ME.

Remember the “green helmet guy” and the Red Cross ambulance fauxtographs?

Pedro the Ignorant

9 Feb 13 at 12:52 pm
One case where one of those annoying spam texts had a positive outcome.

The “Black Widow” bomber, who has not been named, had intended to detonate the explosives in a busy square on January 31.

But a spam message wishing her a happy new year caused it to go off earlier than planned, instantly killing her but not harming others, security sources said.

The woman had been at a safe house in Moscow with two other bombers when the device exploded.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 1:04 pm
ay Pedro, I just took a look at that story. Dragunov my arse. It is an FN-FAL to be sure.

Popular Front

9 Feb 13 at 1:08 pm
Fresh from his vendetta against ‘super trawler’ Abel Tasman, Tony Burke now reverses his support for the mine affected by the Moylan fraudulent ANZ Press Release.

THE federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, flagged his intention to approve the controversial Maules Creek coal mine before Christmas, only weeks before it was the subject of a hoax media release claiming funding for the project from ANZ Bank had been withdrawn.

The revelation is contained in a confidential letter Mr Burke sent to the NSW government, obtained by Fairfax Media, and raises further questions about the minister’s sudden announcement this week to delay a decision on the mine for three months.

Mr Burke now says he was forced to postpone the decision after it emerged that a key condition of consent could not be enforced under NSW law – a claim disputed by the state government.

h/t Michael Smith.

Cold-Hands

9 Feb 13 at 1:12 pm
Looks like a another BS propaganda photo out of the ME.

Bingo.

jupes

9 Feb 13 at 1:15 pm
Mr Burke now says he was forced to postpone the decision after it emerged that a key condition of consent could not be enforced under NSW law – a claim disputed by the state government.

…and this fuckwit knows he won’t be a Minister in seven months time…what a berk.

.

9 Feb 13 at 1:20 pm
It must be fun being a conservative Premier meeting with a Federal counterpart these days.

Fed: “Cock-a-doodle-doo!”

Premier (thoughtfully): “Now, what pattern of red and white do I want in my next feather-duster? Or perhaps we could work on an ironic tartan theme? Ah, the heavy burdens of office …”

johanna

9 Feb 13 at 1:37 pm
As I feel more and more alone, my phone confidently connects with everyone. As I feel more and more lost, my phone calmly knows how to get anywhere. As I struggle to remember mundane things like the name of that movie with the boat and the guy with the lip, my phone smugly recalls literally everything. As I increasingly lose the nouns, verbs and adjectives that once stood ready to articulate my thoughts, my phone taunts me with its instant access to all the words there have ever been. There is only one possible conclusion. Slowly, without realizing it, I seem to have outsourced my mind to my phone. And to make matters worse, the damn thing knows it… and it’s starting to screw with me. Several times during the day I feel it buzz in my pocket, alerting me that some vital information has just arrived. Then, when I look, there’s nothing there. No email. No text. Nothing. Was the buzz in my mind? I don’t think so. I think it’s purposeful. I think my phone is mocking me. And it’s not just my phone. It’s all of them. They are working together, systematically robbing us of our intelligence, our humanity. And then, when we are made stupid and helpless, they will take over. It’s just a matter of time before the next generation of iPhone is equipped with an opposable thumb. Oh yeah, they’re smart alright. Evil, world domination smart.

I have to call people and tell them… Oh, great, now I have no bars! Dear God, what is happening?!

– Chuck Lorre #407.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 1:38 pm
what a berk.

Burke by name and berk by nature

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 1:40 pm
I’m with the Greens on this one, and would be happy to wash CHRISTine Milnes car with one bucket of water.

jumpnmcar

9 Feb 13 at 1:42 pm
Yeah, my feeling is that it has Palliwood written all over it. A female sniper with dead kids is a good way to suck in a sympathetic western media.

boy on a bike

9 Feb 13 at 1:47 pm
It’s actually kind of weird now when you watch an old movie wherein the plot requires emergency recourse to a phone box. I read recently that the advent of the universally carried phone is making movie scripts difficult because nobody is ever cut off from help, telecommunications-wise. That’s why Hollywood now has to include elaborate narrative devices to render phones unworkable, broken, lost, confiscated etc.

I scarcely believe I’m old enough to remember riding my bike to a phone booth with two bob to ring a girl. Smoked a few Winnie reds and rode all the way home again.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 1:50 pm
File this under Gillard’s greatest lies.

H/T Bolt.

Tom

9 Feb 13 at 1:52 pm
Mrs Magoo Warrior Princess.

I guess we will finally get an answer to the question everyone was thinking but afraid to ask – was Michelle Grattan actually just Laurie Oakes in drag?

H B Bear

9 Feb 13 at 2:13 pm
I didn’t realise Jason Clare was so closely connected to the NSW Right. And he has the hide to complain about other people being connected to criminals. Just wow.

John Comnenus

9 Feb 13 at 2:17 pm
SMH runs story on Aleppo sniper with her “dragunov rifle”.

Funny, looks just like an SLR to me..

It would look like an SLR, because it is a cousin. Note the unusual shape of the ejection port, the bumpy carry handle that folds down just under the ejection port, and the triangle-shaped butt on the stock. The SLR has TWO small slots near where the barrel leaves the forestock, but the FN FAL has three small slots in the same position.

I reckon this is the rifle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fuzil-PARAFAL762M964A.gif

Tel

9 Feb 13 at 2:19 pm
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/world/sniper-in-aleppo-syria-20130208-2e3e2.html?selectedImage=1

There’s the SMH image, and here is the Dragunov for comparison, not even remotely similar.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSL_Dragunov_7.62_mm_Sniper_Rifle_-_(1).jpg

Tel

9 Feb 13 at 2:21 pm
Humphrey, Mark Baker made a show of appearing to be harsh, but fair to Lady Macbeth’s legacy. But, having worked with both of them, I rate Andrew Elder’s assessment of her incuriosity about the purpose of politics and lack of a lasting legacy about the way it is reported as the most accurate.

Tom

9 Feb 13 at 2:26 pm
Looks like an FN (I carried one around the bush in Africa for 3 years) without the flash suppressor. Would of thought a sniper would of needed one of those?

Carry straps can also get in the way if you have to use it quickly.

Woolfe

9 Feb 13 at 2:26 pm
BOAB

The rifle is certainly a FN-FAL (7.62mm obviously). While I cannot see the lower part of the action, I think it’s an early model. The scope mount is a bubba special.

Mk50 of Brisbane

9 Feb 13 at 2:40 pm
Angry Anderson could be preselected for Greenway today!

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 3:02 pm
So the SMH runs a story, (probably largely concocted), about a chick who runs around with an assault rifle and a smile, randomly killing unsuspecting public servants, and NOT ONE WORD of condemnation!!!!!

Surely strict gun control, as in Australia, would end the gun violence?

Eddystone

9 Feb 13 at 3:03 pm
Re Zero Dark Thirty, I enjoyed it and don’t think it is a pro-torture movie. BTW, I saw Lincoln and thought it was brilliant. Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, leader of the Radical Republicans, was great.

dover_beach

9 Feb 13 at 3:04 pm
LOL, I love how kids make up words.
My 7yo niece and I are cutting banana pups/suckers out and replanting then.
I explain that most have about 5, so the 12 I have could produce 60!!.
Her eyes widened and her brain ticked over, finally she said ” Your a Mathmagician ”

I said ” Yes I am and you will be one too ”
Her smile was a keeper.

jumpnmcar

9 Feb 13 at 3:05 pm
I agree, Dover. Lincoln was very good.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 3:09 pm
On those exams: mind-boggling. If you asked anyone who had achieved a Bachelors degree nowadays, what the three classic laws of thought are, I’m not even sure 1 in 10 could name them, describe them, and there significance.

dover_beach

9 Feb 13 at 3:15 pm
Gab, I found the scene with Stevens and his black housekeeper/ ‘wife’ at the end uncalled for.

dover_beach

9 Feb 13 at 3:17 pm
Orwell could have used the ALP as his inspiration.

Orwell saw a Labor Party in absolute control.
ALP was inspired by Marx. Rule by the proletariat.

Lincolns

My pappy said Son your gonna drive me to drinkin If you dont stop drivin that Hot Rod Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

stackja

9 Feb 13 at 3:22 pm
dover_beach 9 Feb 13 at 3:15 pm

Google says:
1. Law of identity.
2. Law of noncontradiction.
3. Law of the excluded middle.

stackja

9 Feb 13 at 3:24 pm
Jump, mathemagician.

I like it.

I’ll never be a mathemagician.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 3:24 pm
Oh yes I remember now, Dover. I have no idea why they felt that was necessary, still the movie overall was good. I found it more enjoyable than ZDT.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 3:26 pm
Gillard says deal on illegals.
Key says deal on genuine refugees.

stackja

9 Feb 13 at 3:27 pm
Sorry, enjoyable meaning Lincoln was a better production, script and acting. I found the acting in some parts of ZDT to be below par.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 3:28 pm
lol, stackja see my comment at 1.38pm re outsourcing the mind to technology.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 3:31 pm
Please Sinclair, we need a dedicated firearms thread as well.

James in Melbourne

9 Feb 13 at 3:34 pm
Kae

I’ll never be a mathemagician.

To a 7 year old you already are.
My big smile was because she saw magic that wasn’t on TV but in nature.
I got carried away then and tried to explain the sweet potatoes, the little miss shut that one down quick smart by asking for a jar to put Marigolds into for Mrs Jump.

jumpnmcar

9 Feb 13 at 3:39 pm
Dover what are the significance of those three laws?

No doubt I use them to make arguments both well and poorly without even knowing.

.

9 Feb 13 at 3:46 pm
Dr. Carson’s speech was just fantastic.

dover_beach

9 Feb 13 at 4:07 pm
Gillard’s deal on refugees is resettling 150 of them…oh dear, is that her solution?

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 4:14 pm
dot, from wiki:

The law of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle are not separate laws per se, but correlates of the law of identity. That is to say, they are two interdependent and complementary principles that inhere naturally (implicitly) within the law of identity, as its essential nature. To understand how these supplementary laws relate to the law of identity, one must recognize the dichotomizing nature of the law of identity. By this I mean that whenever we ‘identify’ a thing as belonging to a certain class or instance of a class, we intellectually set that thing apart from all the other things in existence which are ‘not’ of that same class or instance of a class. In other words, the proposition, “A is A and A is not ~A” (law of identity) intellectually partitions a universe of discourse (the domain of all things)into exactly two subsets, A and ~A, and thus gives rise to a dichotomy. As with all dichotomies, A and ~A must then be ‘mutually exclusive’ and ‘jointly exhaustive’ with respect to that universe of discourse. In other words, ‘no one thing can simultaneously be a member of both A and ~A’ (law of non-contradiction), whilst ‘every single thing must be a member of either A or ~A’ (law of excluded middle).

This is pretty amusing:

The Persian philosopher, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), once wrote the following response to opponents of the law of noncontradiction:
“Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.” (Avicenna, Metaphysics)[3]

dover_beach

9 Feb 13 at 4:19 pm
“Professional do-gooder Ian Kiernan has come out as an environmentalist hysteric”

Ask a Lord Howe Islander what they think of this galactic-sized hypocrite. Ask from a distance though…

The Beer Whisperer

9 Feb 13 at 4:22 pm
Mobile phones have sadly the massacred the time-honoured tradition of arguing about trivia in the pub. Someone just googles the true answer on the smartphone now.

Yobbo

9 Feb 13 at 4:22 pm
@Dover Beach
“I’m not even sure 1 in 10 could name them, describe them, and there (sic) significance”.
Reckon 1 in10 can spell “their”?

1735099

9 Feb 13 at 4:25 pm
Reckon 1 in10 can spell “their”?

So fucking what? You can’t spell “Patois”, you obnoxious, hypocritical pillock.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 4:28 pm
The lamest of gotchas, numbers.

Abu Chowdah

9 Feb 13 at 4:29 pm
“Which is worse – the sports man or woman whose dishonesty alters the result of a meaningless game, or the wallet-stuffing, purse-padding, pocket-lining A.L.P. party-hack whose dishonesty perverts the governance of a nation?”

The hyperbole with which the ACC and political actors raged against crimes only inferred struck me as befitting something more henious in Australian society.

Hmmm, let us think, what could be worse? What about slavery? A woman was convicted of this quite recently, so is this the only instance of this in Australia? What about law and order no go areas? Institutionalised child molesting beyond the Catholic Church?

Fair dinkum, it sounded like they were going to announce gas chambers or something. I smell a rat.

The Beer Whisperer

9 Feb 13 at 4:38 pm
Re Zero Dark Thirty, I enjoyed it and don’t think it is a pro-torture movie. BTW, I saw Lincoln and thought it was brilliant. Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, leader of the Radical Republicans, was great.

So did I.

I thought it’s water-boarding scenes were frankly unbelievable.

The wonderful John Yoo was the genius behind the legal defense of enhanced interrogation and I’m keen to hear his take on how it was portrayed in the movie.

It was bullshit.

I suspect they portrayed those scenes as torture because they couldn’t get around the facts.

Information from enhanced interrogation helped get bin Laden

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 4:44 pm
Gillard’s deal on refugees is resettling 150 of them…oh dear, is that her solution?

Well that takes care of the arrivals on 7th Feb.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 4:45 pm
Please Sinclair, we need a dedicated firearms thread as well.

Nah. More like a thread to discuss why Fairfax can’t get simple, basic facts right. Surely they must have someone on staff that can look at a murky photo of a rifle and tell what model it is by looking at the foresight and rear sight?

My thoughts:

- if you need a monster scope to hit a target at 200 metres, you’re not a “sniper”.
- if you’re head shooting your targets with a 7.62, you’re killing them.

How the hell is that scope mounted? Some sort of extra rail above the dust cover?

boy on a bike

9 Feb 13 at 4:58 pm
Wayne Swan the Mathemagician – does have a certain ring to it — like a death knell not a liberty bell

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 4:58 pm
How about a fact-checking thread?

Any bullocks disseminated by any politician or MSM assembled all in the one place.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 5:00 pm
Looks like with numbers it’s all about digits

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 5:02 pm
How about a fact-checking thread?

Any bullocks disseminated by any politician or MSM assembled all in the one place.

Gab now that’s a fantastic idea all the lies and the facts all in one place what a boon except the LIVs still won’t give a rat’s fundament.

Tintarella di Luna

9 Feb 13 at 5:06 pm
I’ve noticed on the LDP site, Cassandra Wilkonson is described as a “confirmed libertarian” as well as a longstanding member of the ALP and Kristina Keneally’s transport adviser. She is also married to a former Labor MP. I’ve always considered her soft left. In my humble opinion, anything remotely left is the antithesis of libertarianism. Am I wrong?

Philip Crowley

9 Feb 13 at 5:06 pm
LIV, Tinta? What’s that?

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 5:09 pm
Law Institute of Victoria?

Philip – what’s your issue – if you didn’t listen to her speech, then what is your beef?

O Reilly had Colbert on as a guest once….and?

.

9 Feb 13 at 5:11 pm
I’m still waiting for a thread devoted to commercial meat slicers in domestic kitchens, but I guess I’ll have to be patient.

nilk

9 Feb 13 at 5:21 pm
I’d like to hear her speech dot. I don’t believe it’s posted yet however. It’s not a beef, merely a query. Can one be left leaning and libertarian? My friends of the left are all fans of big government. I just thought the two philosophies were mutually exclusive, and asked if I am, in fact, wrong?

Philip Crowley

9 Feb 13 at 5:26 pm
1895 exam…

People shouldn’t believe all they read on dem interwebs.

mct

9 Feb 13 at 5:26 pm
is it calling the exam I posted a fake, mct? Or not?

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 5:32 pm
Nope, you’re right in that respect.

There is no such thing in my mind as a left leaning libertarian. Roxon and Conroy showed us what a farce that was.

.

9 Feb 13 at 5:32 pm
The Snopes article doesn’t say the test is not authentic. It shows an even stricter exam for teachers.

It just debates the accuracy of the claim.

They are wrong. Yes you can look stuff up on wiki but if you can’t retain knowledge, you cannot problem solve.

The more knowledge you can retain, the more complex problems can be solved.

I love it when Snopes is wrong.

Status: False.

.

9 Feb 13 at 5:35 pm
Can one be left leaning and libertarian?

NO.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 5:35 pm
’ve noticed on the LDP site, Cassandra Wilkonson is described as a “confirmed libertarian” as well as a longstanding member of the ALP and Kristina Keneally’s transport adviser. She is also married to a former Labor MP. I’ve always considered her soft left. In my humble opinion, anything remotely left is the antithesis of libertarianism. Am I wrong?

Who cares?

She’s a babe.

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 5:37 pm
The latest horsemeat story reminds me of one time the USA said they had found some horsemeat in a consignment of Australian beef – bound for the hamburger market no doubt. Anyway, true or false it prompted a good cartoon in one of the newspapers.
Two inspectors are opening up a carton of frozen meat, and one says to the other “Hey, this one also has some torn up betting tickets in it!”

blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 5:37 pm
is it calling the exam I posted a fake, mct? Or not?

Not perzactly Gab. But IMHO, probably. The fact that it circulates as being for different grades is at best “odd”, don’t you think?

Which doesn’t undermine the premise that we are dumbing down schools… just doesn’t really suppport it, for mine.

mct

9 Feb 13 at 5:39 pm
My friends of the left are all fans of big government. I just thought the two philosophies were mutually exclusive, and asked if I am, in fact, wrong?

It’s possible to be culturally left and still be a libertarian, for sure.

By culturally left I mean someone who grew up leaning left, maybe joined some kind of leftist Uni club and so learned to hate the Liberal party or whatever, but later developed more libertarian ideas.

It’s not like the Liberal Party is very libertarian at all, so there’s no reason why someone who say, changed their views from leftist to libertarian would give John Howard the time of day, for example.

Libertarian is a pretty broad term, but it still has a meaning. Someone who believes in a personal income tax rate of 45%, anti-Blasphemy laws and state-funded television and radio stations is not a libertarian, no matter what they say.

I don’t know what Wilkinson believes so I can’t say one way or the other. All I know about her is that she was a vocal opponent of Conroy’s internet censorship plan.

Yobbo

9 Feb 13 at 5:40 pm
Who cares?

She’s a babe.

That is not enough and she dresses like a seventy year old.

And given her labor connections she’s probably also [deleted].

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 5:40 pm
I dunno about that. Cassandra is still more of the “before” librarian type to my eyes. Potential may be there, but I reserve judgement.
(Declaration of an interest: married to a former library officer.)

blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 5:41 pm
86-year-old woman grabs gun in self-defense [Video]

She told us she’s been the victim of theft many times before, and she’s had enough and it was time to take a stand. “I told different people if I ever catch them, I mean to kill them,” said Louise Howard.

Louise Howard may be 86 years old, but she isn’t afraid to defend her home or her life……
Howard’s hands are proof she wasn’t letting go. “She stuck a fingernail in there,” said Howard. “She moved her hands, sort of released me a bit. I moved over like that, and I was going to shoot her in the stomach, but she took her knee and hit my elbow.”

The bullet ended up inside the wall, where it remained after the struggle.

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 5:45 pm
(Declaration of an interest: married to a former library officer.)

Declaration of interest: Brunettes have always been my preferred form of Crumpet.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 5:46 pm
That is not enough and she dresses like a seventy year old.

And given her labor connections she’s probably also [deleted].

I don’t care.

She’s still a babe.

50′s dresses make her look hot.

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 5:47 pm
It’s possible to be culturally left and still be a libertarian, for sure.

Bollocks.

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 5:48 pm
50′s dresses make her look hot.

She dresses in late 1800s style.

And I’m complementing her by adding the qualifier ‘late’…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 5:48 pm
“I told different people if I ever catch them, I mean to kill them,”

That is not what I would call “self-defense”. It’s vigilantism.

Yobbo

9 Feb 13 at 5:49 pm
Brunettes, Blondes, Redheads, and any variations on those themes will spark my interest. Which leaves Skinheaad O’Connor out in the cold. Saw my first really sexy lady with greying hair when I was a tender 29.

blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 5:50 pm
Sheriff Ronnie Lawson told us Howard was in her rights to use her gun for protection. “All indications [were] the intruder, the female, had a wrench. It was what she used to break the window of the door so she could’ve defended herself,” Sheriff Lawson explained.

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 5:50 pm
She dresses in late 1800s style.

Bonnets and bustles never looked so good.

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 5:52 pm
Brunettes, Blondes, Redheads, and any variations on those themes will spark my interest.

Quite so.

If they’re hot to trot, they’re hot to trot.

Disclaimer – Never let it be said I have a tendency to state the bleeding obvious…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 5:53 pm
I remember the beef to the USA which wasn’t beef but kangaroo.

Someone quickly produced stickers:

DON’T BEEF, PUT ROO IN YOUR STEW!

kae

9 Feb 13 at 5:54 pm
That paving hasn’t tired you out too much Rabz.

blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 5:56 pm
Bonnets and bustles never looked so good.

Oh, FFS!

I’ve given Ms Wilkinson some of the Rabbi’s free fashion tips previously.

In her case a tight shortish white Tee with an equally tight pair of black or faded blue 501s teamed with a semi modern hairstyle should suffice.

Then I might actually listen to (some of) the crap she spouts.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 5:57 pm
Oh – and a Brando in case it’s coolish…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 5:58 pm
Blogstrop

LOL. There’s a farmer gent I see in the supermarkets sometimes hereabouts. He’s striking looking and looks to be my age.

Discussing this person with a g/f I said something like “He looks like he’s between 50 and 60, a young 60.”

She laughed and said “Bet you never thought you’d describe someone that age as young looking!”

Yes, definitely not when I was a teen, or around those years.

It’s all in the eye of the beholder.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 5:58 pm
Thanks Blogs – managed to avoid heatstroke by stopping about 11:30.

The swim afterwards helped.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 6:00 pm
I was trying to figure out whether the lady he was with was his mum or his wife….

I said to my g/f, after describing him, “He’s gotta be gay!”

She said “Gays don’t wear stubbies.”

I’ve seen him shopping, alone… I’m speculating.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 6:01 pm
BOAB

The mount is a bubba job and it’s sure proof this is a pallywood production (bullsh*t to order for the MSM).

They have used a bit of scrap of some kind, secured God knows how to the action, then mounted the scope on this highly flexible abortion.

You’d be better off with the iron sights.

But it sure fools a ‘journalist’ easily.

Mk50 of Brisbane

9 Feb 13 at 6:02 pm
“Gays don’t wear stubbies.”

Liberty Quote!

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 6:03 pm
“I told different people if I ever catch them, I mean to kill them,”

Is it a threat to say “if there is ever a state of anarchy in the country you reside in at the time, I wikll hunt you down and kill you”?

Arguably, you have a lawful excuse, in that it would’t be illegal at the time

.

9 Feb 13 at 6:03 pm
“Gays don’t wear stubbies.”

I have an openly gay friend who wears stubbies, and does so unironically.

What’s more, he is a site manager for Halliburton.

Yobbo

9 Feb 13 at 6:04 pm
Yes, kae, life’s changing perspectives. Remember in Peanuts, Lucy would lean back on Scroeder’s little piano and say things like “You know, you and I have something called propinquity.”
There’s something to be said for age and culture as aids to compatibility.
We grew up in a world where you could still read jokes like this in Readers Digest and not be PC offended:
“A little incompatibility in marriage goes a long way – where the man has income, and the wife is pattable.”

blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 6:06 pm
In her case a tight shortish white Tee with an equally tight pair of black or faded blue 501s teamed with a semi modern hairstyle should suffice.

Kelly McGillis bathing scene with Harrison Ford in Witness

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 6:07 pm
I’ve seen him shopping, alone… I’m speculating.

kae, have you ever thought of actually, you know, talking to him?

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 6:09 pm
Rabz and Yobbo

She met a bloke years ago who she found interesting.

He was well dressed but his shirt used to hang out the back.

She said to me “Surely he’s not gay? He’s… untidy.”

He was gay. (Probably still is!)

I reckon her gayday is buggered and take her “Gays don’t wear stubbies” statement with a lot of salt.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 6:10 pm
Kelly McGillis bathing scene with Harrison Ford in Witness

Err, not something that springs to mind…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 6:14 pm
Rabz

Over the past few years I’ve seen him three times in the supermarket. Once in Coles in the next town and once in Woolies on the highway. Last week I saw him in my town pushing a lady in a wheelchair. I couldn’t tell whether it was his mum or his wife – if his mum she’s got good genes and/or he may be younger than I think, if it’s his wife her illness has added years to her.

I smile when I see him. He’s tall, good looking of face, and very well built.

I’m fair, fat and approaching fifty (from the wrong side). And chicken, not as bold as I was when I was in my 20s. I have effectively been out of ‘the market’ since 1988.

The idea is to find out who he is and go from there. My photographer friend is getting married in August, I hoped she’d know who he is but she’s from the next town and wasn’t familiar with my described person.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 6:16 pm
gayday = gaydar

Mine’s been on the fritz my whole life.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 6:17 pm
I’m fair, fat and approaching fifty (from the wrong side).

You say that like it’s a bad thing!

FFS, just talk to him. Life is too short.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 6:19 pm
I certainly wouldn’t describe the Libs as libertarian Yobbo. They’re as statist as Labor, but approached from a different angle.

Rabz, I really don’t know what to think about Wilkinson. My first impression was that of interloper. My impression from dot’s comment is that her speech to the LDP was impressive. I’m keen to hear it to either confirm or refute that first impression.

James K, she is a babe, but the sotto voce voice gets to me a bit.

Philip Crowley

9 Feb 13 at 6:19 pm
and approaching fifty

One prefers to say “on the wrong side of forty”, one does.

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 6:21 pm
Err, not something that springs to mind…

Kelly didn’t wear a tight shortish white Tee with an equally tight pair of black or faded blue 501s teamed with a semi modern hairstyle in that movie and she was still hot.

Harrison was a fuckwit and still is

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 6:21 pm
No, Gab.

Approaching 50 from the wrong side… nowhere near 40, 14 past 40 in fact.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 6:31 pm
As far as I can tell, there are 2 kinds of gay men: The ones who “act gay” and the ones who act straight.

Referring again to my gay friend – he is a straight acting, normal aussie guy who plays cricket and AFL, works a manually intensive FIFO job, votes Liberal, drinks beer etc etc. Literally, the only “gay” thing about him is that he has a boyfriend. I knew him for 4 years before I found out he was gay.

His boyfriend is a male model who wears makeup and is as gay as the day is long. Nobody could mistake him for a straight guy.

And according to my friend, that is pretty typical of most gay couples. There is a masculine partner and an effeminate partner. They don’t take it in turns. And an effeminate gay man would not be interested at all in dating another effeminate gay man.

So to make a long story short, there are probably thousands of gay guys in Australia that wear Stubbies every day to work. You just wouldn’t know they are gay unless they told you.

(I only have the one gay friend that I know of, so I guess it is possible that what he told me is bullshit and not true of all of them, but I don’t have anything else to go on).

Yobbo

9 Feb 13 at 6:31 pm
but the sotto voce voice gets to me a bit.

Her voice?

As already stated, the poor chick needs a major image overhaul…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 6:32 pm
God lord, Kae. No no no. !! ” On the wrong side of forty” can mean lots of things, leave it up to the observer to decide the age, but there’s no need to pin down the age and tell all!

Gab

9 Feb 13 at 6:39 pm
Yeah, Yobs.

I was out with a female gay friend years ago. We were at a restaurant catching up, and eating of course, and we met two blokes who were nice, interesting.

We went back to their place. One was an air steward* the other was an office worker or something like that (he was an engineer or something). They were great people and I was most disappointed, being single at the time, to be told by my friend that these two were an item – fortunately before we got to their unit and before I could make an idiot of myself!

Neither of these two were effeminate.

*cliche or what?

kae

9 Feb 13 at 6:39 pm
Like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gcG5RrF3bM

Darryl: Something terrible happened that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Wayne: You saw someone else wearing those over length boots u bought in Milan?

Darryl: I was in the cockpit when the captain was sucked out.

.

9 Feb 13 at 6:41 pm
LIV, Tinta? What’s that?

Low Information Voters – the ones that live with Mum and Dad ’til they’re 35 and vote Labor or Green

I spoke today to a young man who is a fantastic young guy and we were talking about Tony Abbott and he said I don’t know he’s a bit dodgy.

I asked if he knew anything about him? He said not much but there’s a lot out there about him being dodgy.

I asked if he knew that Abbott is and has been a rural fire fighter for 15 years? — No they don’t tell us that about him.

Did he know that he teaches aboriginal children that he’s been a volunteer lifesaver for many years.

Now this young bloke is 32 years old and is obviously and LIV — I am filling him in with information so I lose the desire to fill ‘im full of lead.

Tinta

9 Feb 13 at 6:48 pm
Dot
Not like that at all, and much better looking and groomed and dressed – this would have been in the same era as Fast Forward I think! Late 70s?

kae

9 Feb 13 at 6:50 pm
Her voice?

As already stated, the poor chick needs a major image overhaul…

Like this?

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 6:51 pm
Yeah, a return to Rudd will bring sanity back to national affairs…

I was the leaker of the documents related to the investigation into expletive-laden video: Kevin Rudd.

KEVIN RUDD has revealed he leaked hundreds of pages of documents relating to his complaints over the federal police investigation Operation Mesco into who leaked his expletive-laden video.

In a bizarre development, Mr Rudd has confirmed he lodged a freedom of information request into his own correspondence with the Federal Police, before leaking hundreds of pages of correspondence relating to ‘Operation Mesco” this week to the media.

He is pushing to implicate Gillard:

Mr Rudd said today his interest was seeing justice done.

“The bottom line is that this was a significant event in Australian politics, it involved the theft of Commonwealth property in the documents I have FOI’d from both the Federal Police and the Attorney-General’s department their conclusion is that a crime against the Commonwealth Crimes Act has been committed and this involved the theft of Commonwealth property,” Mr Rudd said.

“That is a serious matter and we should get to the bottom of it.”

Rudd supporters maintain the video was leaked within hours of the Prime Minister’s office learning that News Ltd planned to publish comments from Labor MP Darren Cheesman calling for Julia Gillard to resign as PM.

They argue the video was a “shock-and-awe” tactic by the Gillard camp.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 6:53 pm
I know male gay male couples who are both camp.

They and others tell me the camp gay is relatively rare.

The overwhelming majority of gay men are not obviously gay.

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 6:54 pm
I didn’t know there were any FIFO workers playing in the AFL.

sdfc

9 Feb 13 at 6:57 pm
Synchronicity, thy name is … ABC.
They’re doing a number on Drugs In Sport (sounds a bit like Pigs – In – Spaaace!) on 7.30 Report Monday. With that same work experience (brunette, Rabz, looker!) young lady who did the Bruce Wilson thaing.

blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 7:02 pm
Meh, I say AFL because that’s how I describe australian rules to people over here. If you say “Australian Football” they think you mean Rugby.

FWIW I think he used to play for Mount Lawley amateurs.

Yobbo

9 Feb 13 at 7:02 pm
I was the leaker of the documents related to the investigation into the expletive-laden video: Kevin Rudd

A senior departmental official also writes in an email that after she told Mr Rudd the case would not proceed, “the victim indicated considerable frustration … may consider a complaint to the Attorney (Nicola Roxon) or others”.

How did such useless retards get into power?

Tiny Dancer

9 Feb 13 at 7:03 pm
Kelly McGillis bathing scene with Harrison Ford in Witness

Err, not something that springs to mind…

Rabz what about the dancing scene in The Horse Whisperer with Kristen Scott Thomas and Robert Redford?

Tinta

9 Feb 13 at 7:11 pm
BTW sdfc, if it wasn’t for WAFL country zoning we would probably support the same team. My old man played 1 season for sdfc in the early 1970s, because he was a Guildford boy.

After country zoning we were allocated to South Fremantle. So not only could I have been a sdfc supporter too, but my little brother would have played for them.

History being what it is though, I am required to hate you.

Yobbo

9 Feb 13 at 7:15 pm
I knew a bloke years ago who was nicknamed “Jimmy the poof” (name has been changed). He was from a farm, drove a truck with a blue heeler up front, wore stubbies and a singlet, drank VB and was very much a blokes bloke.

We had to call him Jimmy the poof – otherwise you’d have had no idea he was gay.

Poor bugger had a terrible time finding a boyfriend. We ended up shouting him a session to one of those speed dating things. His problem, as he told it to me, was that he couldn’t stand pooftas! (ie, really effeminate blokes). He much preferred the company of straight blokes, and so was stuck with being celibate most of the time.

boy on a bike

9 Feb 13 at 7:17 pm
Poor Jimmy.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 7:19 pm
I hope my farmer’s not Jimmy!

kae

9 Feb 13 at 7:21 pm
His problem, as he told it to me, was that he couldn’t stand pooftas! (ie, really effeminate blokes). He much preferred the company of straight blokes, and so was stuck with being celibate most of the time.

The poor prick needed a trip to Ken’s of Kensington.

.

9 Feb 13 at 7:24 pm
A senior departmental official also writes in an email that after she told Mr Rudd the case would not proceed, “the victim indicated considerable frustration … may consider a complaint to the Attorney (Nicola Roxon) or others”.

Hilarity ensues.

Tinta

9 Feb 13 at 7:24 pm
His problem, as he told it to me, was that he couldn’t stand pooftas! (ie, really effeminate blokes). He much preferred the company of straight blokes, and so was stuck with being celibate most of the time.

It makes you wonder how these blokes ever find boyfriends if they live in an area with no gay bars. How would you even know? Scrawlings on the wall of the public toilets?

Yobbo

9 Feb 13 at 7:26 pm
It makes you wonder how these blokes ever find boyfriends

Gaydar

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 7:29 pm
Like this?

I’m speechless.

The horror.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 7:32 pm
Last I heard, he was in…wait for it……Bunbury.

boy on a bike

9 Feb 13 at 7:38 pm
Eleven months in Bunbury:

‘Listen Verl,’ Nelson clasped her hand. ‘there’s an ugly bunch of people sittin in that backyard. When they’re full of piss they’ll say things. Try not to let em get to ya. There’ll come a time, later on tonight, when things are likely to get pretty savage. That’ll mean it’s time to go. We’ll stay until just before breakin point.’

boy on a bike

9 Feb 13 at 7:46 pm
By the way, Rabz, “Life’s too short.”

You’re right, and thanks for the vote of confidence and push of encouragement.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 7:49 pm
Yobbo

Your old man is a deadset legend.

My parents followed South, so I saw a lot of them when I was a kid. Hence my support for Freo in the AFL.

sdfc

9 Feb 13 at 7:53 pm
Bloody redheads, if they make up their minds ya can’t stop em.
But it’s frustrating watching them get to that point.

jumpnmcar

9 Feb 13 at 7:56 pm
The latest horsemeat story reminds me of one time the USA said they had found some horsemeat in a consignment of Australian beef – bound for the hamburger market no doubt. Anyway, true or false it prompted a good cartoon in one of the newspapers.

In the 70′s The Old Spagetti Factory in The Rocks Sydney was caught substituting dogfood in it’s bolognese. Looking at the food reviews from around the world chains it seems nothing has changed.

Splatacrobat

9 Feb 13 at 7:57 pm
Name 10 parts of the human body of 3 letters each.

No slang names for any part.

No googling!

pete m

9 Feb 13 at 8:18 pm
If Labor dips further in the polls I can see them going beyond drugs in sport, the the next policy announcement (headline) “Wayne Carey explains why he was in the bathroom with Tim at Kirribilly”.

Honesty

9 Feb 13 at 8:18 pm
Pat O’Shane

She ruled in her final case last week, and is now focused on a return to the bar.

stackja

9 Feb 13 at 8:21 pm
Whaddaya mean, Jump?

About redheads.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 8:23 pm
eye ear toe leg arm jaw bum tit gut gun*

* as in one of a pair of what gets worked on in the gym.

jupes

9 Feb 13 at 8:24 pm
Unrelated to anything else, but the Total Commonwealth Government Securities on Issue was well over $261 billion in December, now just over $258 billion. Is that a sign that it’s going to head downwards, or just a random fluctuation?

Tel

9 Feb 13 at 8:25 pm
1.eye
2. leg
3. arm
4. bum
5. pec
6. tit
7. ear
8. jaw
9. toe
10. Bugger me I cant think of any more

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 8:26 pm
TD, this thing on Krudd is a corker. It’s another Gift from God for Abbott, too.

I think it kills any chance of the King Kruddles the Incompetent filleting the Lying Slapper.

That means the alpgreenfilth are ‘led’ by the Lying Slapper and Tubbsy ‘I bay at the moon’ Milne into the election.

Excellent.

Mk50 of Brisbane

9 Feb 13 at 8:26 pm
In the 70′s The Old Spaghetti Factory in The Rocks Sydney was caught substituting dogfood in it’s bolognese.

How on earth was anyone able to detect a difference?

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 8:26 pm
10. Ok gut wins at no 10!!

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 8:26 pm
bubba job

As in “hillbilly”?

boy on a bike

9 Feb 13 at 8:28 pm
I doubt that Tel considering they’re headed for deficit and are still building the NBN.

Even when they return to surplus, the government is going to keep 14% of GDP of debt on issue.

sdfc

9 Feb 13 at 8:29 pm
His problem, as he told it to me, was that he couldn’t stand pooftas! (ie, really effeminate blokes). He much preferred the company of straight blokes, and so was stuck with being celibate most of the time.

Sounds like a line.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 8:29 pm
OK I cheated now

hip, lip, ova, rib

(eleven in toto doesnt include pec or tit)

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 8:30 pm
actually bum is out too and needs to be replaced with gum

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 8:31 pm
Kelly didn’t wear a tight shortish white Tee with an equally tight pair of black or faded blue 501s teamed with a semi modern hairstyle in that movie and she was still hot.

…but she did wear a white Tee shirt in Top Gun with Tom Cruise.
(also a fuckwit BTW)

Steve

9 Feb 13 at 8:32 pm
dover_beach @ 3:17 pm
JamesK @ 4:44 pm

Nice of you to give us an insight into the scene at the end of ‘Lincoln’ and the torture techniques in Zero Dark Thirty. I have seen neither movie yet and do really appreciate your heads-up. Should help me to enjoy the movies so much more.

sarc intended.

Septimus

9 Feb 13 at 8:32 pm
Pat O’Shane was appalling but I never had a problem with her famous decision to throw out a charge of abusive language used in the hearing of a police officer.

Her reasoning – that the same language is now standard fare on television and that the officer was being a punitive drama queen – was faultless.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 8:33 pm
That might be 10% actually Tel on second thoughts.

sdfc

9 Feb 13 at 8:33 pm
YAY!

The barbarian savages of the religion of peace strike again.

Brother rapes sister.
Raped sister is pregnant to brother.
Brother murders sister he impregnated becuase SHE dishonored the family.

Mk50 of Brisbane

9 Feb 13 at 8:34 pm
Well played C.L.,

Bang on.

.

9 Feb 13 at 8:36 pm
Her reasoning – that the same language is now standard fare on television

Were actual scripts quoted in cout as evidence? If not, it is a bald assertion or at best hearsay evidence.

blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 8:36 pm
That means the alpgreenfilth are ‘led’ by the Lying Slapper and Tubbsy ‘I bay at the moon’ Milne into the election.

Excellent.

Here’s hoping.

My three main hoped for election night events:

1. Lardarse’s concession speech

2. Ruff losing his seat

3. Goose Swansteen (after losing his seat) getting owned again by Kroges

I’m going to need at least six bottles of Moet on the evening of September 14*.

The election in August 2010 was a two bottle night and only one got consumed due to the doubt about the outcome.

All CCC™ members are invited, as well as other Cats who might want to head to ZP to soak up da atmosphere.

*In all likelihood any other Saturday night than that one…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 8:36 pm
Brother rapes sister.
Raped sister is pregnant to brother.
Brother murders sister he impregnated becuase SHE dishonored the family.

Hang that cun*t.

.

9 Feb 13 at 8:36 pm
Bang on? That would be Mk50′s comment.

blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 8:38 pm
Don’t tell me you’re surprised, MK50.

It’s not at all a surprising situation.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 8:39 pm
Her reasoning – that the same language is now standard fare on television

Not on ABC2 it isn’t.

boy on a bike

9 Feb 13 at 8:40 pm
Kae

Whaddaya mean, Jump?

About redheads.

Got a son,2 uncles, 2 aunties, 3 nephews and 1 niece that are bloodnuts.
It’s a common trait I’ve observed.
Staunch and unrelenting when focused but floating and blasé when not.
A massive strong heart that breaks in a trillion peaces.
If ever the option of ” pulling the plug ” on me is given, I hope my redhead is there.

jumpnmcar

9 Feb 13 at 8:44 pm
Were actual scripts quoted in cout as evidence?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqqu93r_bNU

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 8:45 pm
Were actual scripts quoted in cout as evidence? If not, it is a bald assertion or at best hearsay evidence.

IIRC in that case the guy just told the cop to “fuck off”. Might have also called him a “prick”. I’m not really sure you need evidence to convince the court that TV and movies contain language of that nature.

The cop was being a princess, and considered himself too important to be told to fuck off.

Yobbo

9 Feb 13 at 8:50 pm
Okay, I’m safe from that. I’m more a silver and gold colour now.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 8:50 pm
News.com seems to have played down the main angle of that Rudd story. He is saying that he is trying to establish that a criminal act has been committed by the Gillard camp.

“The bottom line is that this was a significant event in Australian politics, it involved the theft of Commonwealth property in the documents I have FOI’d from both the Federal Police and the Attorney-General’s department their conclusion is that a crime against the Commonwealth Crimes Act has been committed and this involved the theft of Commonwealth property,” Mr Rudd said.

“That is a serious matter and we should get to the bottom of it.”

Rudd supporters maintain the video was leaked within hours of the Prime Minister’s office learning that News Ltd planned to publish comments from Labor MP Darren Cheesman calling for Julia Gillard to resign as PM.

They argue the video was a “shock-and-awe” tactic by the Gillard camp.

This is a huge escalation on Rudd’s part.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 8:50 pm
All CCC™ members are invited, as well as other Cats who might want to head to ZP to soak up da atmosphere.

Count me in, Rabz. It will be an exorcism that demands expenditure on hotels and air fares and attendance at the national capital to loudly abuse particular members of the kleptocracy to their faces, with the possibility that citations for transgressions under the Summary Offences Act may be actuated as memorabilia that salves five years of abuse by the scum of the earth as they are symbolically thrown out of the people’s temple.

Tom

9 Feb 13 at 8:56 pm
I don’t think the Sopranos is a good example of “language that is commonly used in society” etc though. It’s pretty clear that the main characters are gangsters and criminals, and the word “cunt” (which is considered much more offensive in the US than here) is used for effect to maintain Tony Sopranos’s status as an anti-hero during periods of the show when he is otherwise treated sympathetically.

But words like “fuck off” and “prick” can be found in TV shows about regular people like “Modern Family”.

Yobbo

9 Feb 13 at 8:56 pm
This is a huge escalation on Rudd’s part

Gillard must be out of the country again.

jumpnmcar

9 Feb 13 at 8:57 pm
Rudd supporters maintain the video was leaked within hours of the Prime Minister’s office learning that News Ltd planned to publish comments from Labor MP Darren Cheesman calling for Julia Gillard to resign as PM.

Holy Shit. Election in May?

.

9 Feb 13 at 8:58 pm
The bottom line is that this was a significant event in Australian politics, it involved the theft of Commonwealth property…

No ‘event’ is ‘significant’ any longer, as far as this toxic clown collective goes.

Z-grade stupidity, arrogance and incompetence, stuck on repeat.

Enough.

Time they were turfed, people – you know it makes sense…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 8:59 pm
See you on election eve, then, Tom!

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 9:00 pm
Hey Dot got loads of work next sem…(how can one prep and teach four diff subjects in diff unis in one week?) short answer I damn well cant. I need to tell someone I am breaking my promise.
Its expression of interest time of year.

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 9:02 pm
Occam’s Razor the thing.

It was a PM&C video.

Who had access to PM&C?

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 9:03 pm
Z-grade stupidity, arrogance and incompetence, stuck on repeat.

With occasional breaks for dishonesty and corruption

squawkbox

9 Feb 13 at 9:04 pm
Rabz

It’s been beyond turfing time for a very long time now.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 9:04 pm
Holy Shit. Election in May?

goose swansteen must be prevented from delivering another one of his ‘budgets’.

The budget these loathsome morons have planned for May will contain some particularly nasty surprises – all of which will kick in from 1 July and none of which the f*cking liberals will remove upon their election.

Best that the goose (and therefore labor) isn’t allowed the opportunity in the first place.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 9:06 pm
Hey Dot got loads of work next sem…(how can one prep and teach four diff subjects in diff unis in one week?) short answer I damn well cant. I need to tell someone I am breaking my promise.
Its expression of interest time of year.

Again, why do you think I give a fuck?

Soft marking Asian students to worthless degrees is a few rungs up from professions not mentioned at dinner parties.

.

9 Feb 13 at 9:06 pm
kae and squawks – agreed.

Trying to ‘describe’ this ‘gubberment’ is well nigh on impossible.

The number of adjectives needed render a supposedly simple comment almost interminable…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 9:10 pm
You need it as well Dot. You are a penniless phd student you keep telling me but I dont think I quite believe you because most real penniless phd students want teaching. The pay isnt bad and you know something? Its a great job (these wanker researchers who co-ordinate and couldnt give a shit about students or teaching standards really piss me off).

Teaching uni students (that age) is a pure pleasure not pain Dot. Ive never got bored with it, ever, which I could do easily (get bored as batshit) in a million jobs somewhere else.

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 9:11 pm
Dit says

“Soft marking Asian students to worthless degrees is a few rungs up from professions not mentioned at dinner parties.”

Oh you waaaaaaanker Dot

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 9:12 pm
Take your pick.
Zager and Evans “In The Year 2525
Zager and Evans “In The Year 2525

In the year 3535 Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, or say Is in the pill you took today

stackja

9 Feb 13 at 9:14 pm
Aliice,

Just post some songs, FFS.

No one is in the mood for another of your interminable arguments with the d0t…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 9:15 pm
Dot

Ive been to plenty of those dinner parties and let me tell you some of those who mention their professions (or their provisional tax bill or their last three holidays in three months or the new poolhouse they built) at those dinner parties you speak of can be insufferably boring twats.

Some of them are geuinely fun people but a lot of them are also deadly boring.

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 9:16 pm
Sure Alice.

I’m destitute and I need to prostitute myself

No.

.

9 Feb 13 at 9:18 pm
stackja – monstrous.

FFS, I hate hippies.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 9:18 pm
d0t and alicce need to be brought together at a dinner pardee.

The sooner the bedder…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 9:20 pm
It’s annoying isn’t it Rabz – these hippies are detestable scum who’d go into bat for the Soviet Union, and tell everyone in free Western countries they need to “wake up to the truth”.

Absolute fuckheads.

.

9 Feb 13 at 9:21 pm
Nice of you to give us an insight into the scene at the end of ‘Lincoln’

Apologies, but is it really necessary to give Spoiler Alerts about historical events that are dramatized? Luckily I said nothing about Lincoln living or dying at the end or about the success or failure of the Fourteenth Amendment.

dover_beach

9 Feb 13 at 9:22 pm
d0t and alicce need to be brought together at a dinner pardee.

The sooner the bedder…

I’d rather drink hemlock. Spare me the Churchill/Socrates/Laurence Olivier jokes.

.

9 Feb 13 at 9:23 pm
I actually like Dot if you dont mind Rabz. Dot and I have some good arguments and he is a a sparky sort of guy (which is good).
He thinks I am a stupid old woman and he is younger than me, but I reckon he is on the right track.

OK if you insist Rabz

here is a song..what song??…I dont know..something I like (for an old bugger)..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkOmcIl79s

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 9:24 pm
Here’s hoping.

My three main hoped for election night events:

1. Lardarse’s concession speech

2. Ruff losing his seat

3. Goose Swansteen (after losing his seat) getting owned again by Kroges

I’m going to need at least six bottles of Moet on the evening of September 14*.

I am having a drinking game on election night. Every seat Labor loses, everyone must down a shot.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 9:24 pm
He thinks I am a stupid old woman and he is younger than me, but I reckon he is on the right track.

You Madam, have peaked.

Turn off your internet connection, it doesn’t get any better than this.

.

9 Feb 13 at 9:25 pm
Oh come on Dot – if you can sit through your Mother’s Russophilic Marxist friend you wouldnt quite have to drink hemlock if I turned up!

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 9:25 pm
I don’t care what scriptwriters do, it is not acceptable for the great unwashed to talk to the police as if they were just another opposing gang.
Pat O’Shane is an abject failure as a bench sitter. It’s the Peter Principle cross-fertilised with PC and affirmative action, with extreme prejudice.

blogstrop

9 Feb 13 at 9:25 pm
Luckily I said nothing about Lincoln living or dying at the end …

LOL.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 9:27 pm
That’s one of ABBA’s shittier songs Alice.

sdfc

9 Feb 13 at 9:29 pm
She’s not a fuckwit.

.

9 Feb 13 at 9:30 pm
Alice – ova is out – not a body part – i.e. significant etc.

So 10 it is.

thanks for playing

Andrew – I also want to see Oakeshott and Windsor get owned, and the Greens lose when no-one plays their game.

pete m

9 Feb 13 at 9:30 pm
Speaking of Lincoln: America under his current successor…

Via DRUDGE: NAVY UNABLE TO REFUEL CARRIER DUE TO BUDGET CUTS.

The U.S. Navy will delay the refueling of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) for an unknown period because of the uncertain fiscal environment due to the ongoing legislative struggle, the service told Congress in a Friday message obtained by USNI News.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 9:32 pm
So do I, pete m.

What was interesting tonight was when I commented on how ‘Aboriginal’ some of the players in the exhibition Indigenous NRL game tonight were, I copped an absolute tongue lashing from lefties whose tweets had no relation to what I was saying. The main point I made was that how some of these players can claim to be Indigenous.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 9:34 pm
Stacks
I have the album with that song on it.
I bought it new.
Vinyl.

kae

9 Feb 13 at 9:34 pm
Bloody hell – il Wanderini continue on their inevitable march towards a first season premiership.

Unstoppable?

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 9:35 pm
I am having a drinking game on election night. Every seat Labor loses, everyone must down a shot.

There’ll be semi conscious bodies all over your living room floor by about 7:00pm!

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 9:37 pm
Pete

Ova is in.

I cheated and googled it. Its eleven not ten!

sdfc – I know its corny but I like it (Abbas money money money).

Ok how about this ABBA one..its more popular and these two girls were just sooooo pretty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEjLoHdbVeE

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 9:39 pm
There’ll be semi conscious bodies all over your living room floor by about 7:00pm!

Yeah, we might have to review the liquor consumed considering that we want to see Gillard concede defeat and Abbott claim victory.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 9:40 pm
Yeah, we might have to review the liquor consumed considering that we want to see Gillard concede defeat and Abbott claim victory.

Pace yourself, Squire.

It is going to be a long and very enjoyable night.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 9:41 pm
CL, you’ve got to love Drudge, this headline on the LA shooter had me in stitches:

Supports gun control, Obama and Piers Morgan…

dover_beach

9 Feb 13 at 9:41 pm
Was thinking about this when running this morning and I got very angry. When the actual election campaign starts, Labor will have a launch at which they will all be rolled out – Keating, Hawke, Beazley – and Gillard will wax all sentimental about Labor “values,” and emote and bloviate about how they are the party that fights for the under-privilege, and sprinkle through it all of those abstract nouns that Labor absolutely gets off on – think edukayshun, vision, opporchoonity etc.

And the ABC and Fairfax will love it, and we will be told ad nauseam about how passionate and feisty Jools is, and how she was raised in Labor values, and how that has motivated all her career, to redress wrongs – you know as I do exactly what sort of hagiographies are already written, just waiting for the “print” button to be pushed.

And of course, as counterpoint, Jools will rabbit on about how the Libs are the party of the rich and the bosses, blah blah, and how without Labor to civilise us what a rapacious, greedy, robber-baron-ocracy Australia would be.

But of course, the joke is that anyone reading about Obeid and Macdonald and Thommo will know who the real robber barons are in Australia. How the Labor party got hijacked by the scum of the earth, skilled only at hoovering from the public trough.

I am also disgusted to my bile duct by the attempted confiscation of tithes from the nation’s superannuants, for naked ALP political purposes, clothed in some truly pathetic class-warfare rhetoric.

Yes, the concessions are skewed to high-income earners – get over it, because everyone else benefits too. This pack of incompetent and venal arseholes cannot understand that what is truly unequal – and an absolute disgrace – is that innumerate spivs like Gillard and Swan are on massive defined benefit payouts, yet they are changing the rules midstream on poor bozos in defined contribution schemes, who CANNOT POSSIBLY FARKING SAVE ANYWHERE NEAR WHAT THOSE SPIVS WILL RETIRE ON, THANKS TO CHANGES MADE BY THOSE VERY SAME SPIVS.

You want an example of “inequitable,” you moron Swan, and you dodgy sacked lawyer Gillard, there it is, in black and white.

That’s all I’ve got to say, it makes me want to puke. Cry the Beloved Country, that such worthless, over-promoted, cynical and venal shsyters once held our top jobs.

James in Melbourne

9 Feb 13 at 9:44 pm
Alice

Some of their stuff is pretty good, SOS for instance, but GGG is even worse than MMM.

sdfc

9 Feb 13 at 9:45 pm
LOL sdfc

Well this one is amazingly more popular with 50 million hits and no not Abba. History this one..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 9:47 pm
Agreed James. When Labor politicians talk about ‘Labor values’, I think I want to puke. They are so full of shit and they have such massive egos. On the other hand, the Coalition just talks about what they are going to do and attacks Labor, when campaigning. They are no way near as egotistical as Labor people are.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 9:47 pm
James – a truly righteous rant, Squire.

Well done.

Our time will come.

They are going down.

We hold this fact to be self evident.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 9:50 pm
That’s all I’ve got to say

And you’ve said it very well. Hear hear!

jupes

9 Feb 13 at 9:51 pm
Howard’s Tough Gun Laws going well:

Two men wounded in latest Sydney shootings.

Man shot seven times at Elizabeth North.

It comes just days after a teenager was bashed and shot at in Smithfield, and is now the 15th shooting in South Australia since New Year’s Eve.

Amzing that their guns aren’t registered and kept locked away in safes.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 9:51 pm
When Labor politicians talk about ‘Labor values’, I think I want to puke.

I reach for my Browning.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 9:53 pm
So increasing the availablility of guns is supposed to reduce gun access, right.

sdfc

9 Feb 13 at 9:53 pm
Pace yourself, Squire.
It is going to be a long and very enjoyable night.
Certainly enjoyable, but long? The concession will be by oh, nine pm at the latest donchathink?

Cold-Hands

9 Feb 13 at 9:54 pm
Watching people like Kerry O’Brien, Mark Riley and Laurie Oakes on the election coverage will also be very enjoyable.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 9:56 pm
I’ve campaigned before for Abbott to swipe this famous line on election night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLyX4DbE6Hc

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 9:56 pm
Certainly enjoyable, but long? The concession will be by oh, nine pm at the latest donchathink?

Ahem – the partying will continue all bleeping night.

We’ll have waited six fucking long years for this.

I’ll be up until dawn, at least.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 9:56 pm
C.L, Abbott should SOOOOO use that opening line.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 9:58 pm
The Aboriginals beat the Convicts in the NRL exhibition match tonight!

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 9:58 pm
So nice to be among fellow hippie-haters.

A long time ago, I lived in a large share house and we allowed a seemingly nice woman with hippie-ish tendencies to move in. Not long afterwards, a couple of her unwashed mates came to stay ‘for a few days.’ After 3 weeks of these bludgers (who ate our food, used the facilities etc and contributed nothing), I bought a can of red spray-paint and painted “We drink hippies’ blood” on the door of the spare room they were sleeping in. If you hold the can close to the surface, it drips with suitable horror effect.

They were gone by c.o.b., and she left the following week.

And yes, I did include the apostrophe. Grammar is one of the dividing lines between Us and Them, even if They don’t even recognise it when they see it.

johanna

9 Feb 13 at 10:00 pm
Must admit I dont mind Abba (and I like them better than hit the road Jack – that was an interesting timepiece). Very 70s…This is getting mad. Check the clothes..and the glitter makeup.
OMG – How many discos did I go to where this was playing? The dancing was fun anyway. My son says now kids cant dance at all and they do all sorts of weirdo fight dancing. Boring and no glitter balls?.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsVeMz1F5c

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 10:01 pm
good thing you kicked them out Johanna or they would have stayed another three weeks with all the “cool it man… dont be heavy… crap”.

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 10:03 pm
Glittering Theme

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 10:06 pm
CL says
”

When Labor politicians talk about ‘Labor values’, I think I want to puke.

I reach for my Browning.”

Im about at that point too.

What Labor values?

You mean this one?

“How much moolah can I personally make from my time in politics on the table or under it?- so I am no longer just an ordinary man ?’

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 10:10 pm
Rabz – on the glittering theme – that was a great one I had forgotten.

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 10:13 pm
dover_beach,

Don’t need spoiler alerts about historical events. Just prefer not to know what is in a current release movie (other than what is shown in the trailer). Would like to be able to form my own opinions on what is or isn’t in the movie and whether the movie and the performance of the actors (esp Tommy Lee Jones) justifies an Academy Award nomination. Old movies don’t matter so much.

Septimus

9 Feb 13 at 10:17 pm
Bruce Willis is a ghost btw.

Yobbo

9 Feb 13 at 10:25 pm
Ok here is a song I had forgotten completely about and some here wouldnt even remember it.

Its just a lovely song no tricks or special effects and she was Welsh (you asked me to post a single song Rabz?? – you should never do that…)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVdOQvx379Y

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 10:26 pm
Just enjoy those toons, Alicce, I certainly am!

Here’s one – with possibly the best evah coda in rock…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 10:32 pm
So nice to be among fellow hippie-haters

Love that story, Johanna. I lived among them once without joining up. The most emotionally dishonest fucked up cult of overgrown children I’ve ever come across.

But we lived and let live. And now they are the fucking government. Enough. Time for the grown-ups to retake the country and count the cost. Such a pity there aren’t the laws in place to gaol Gillard and Milne for extortion.

Tom

9 Feb 13 at 10:43 pm
Luckily I said nothing about Lincoln living or dying at the end

Abe’s wife was a complete bitch.

He married badly.

JamesK

9 Feb 13 at 10:44 pm
Rabz – that was a great one – Numan – and you are tounching on the post or post post punk genre there…
Here is another one like that..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa2nLEhUcZ0

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 10:56 pm
Love that story, Johanna. I lived among them once without joining up. The most emotionally dishonest fucked up cult of overgrown children I’ve ever come across

Any advice from you or anyone else on how to deal with the hippies at uni?

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 10:57 pm
Potemkin’s Village

Does it really matter who is which… here

Grigory Potemkin

9 Feb 13 at 10:57 pm
“The concession will be by oh, nine pm at the latest donchathink?”

The concession will be enjoyable for the sight of the stupid older-should-know-better booth worker wimminses blubbering away in the front row, as they realise their stupid dream is dissipating.

I recall Richo calling the likely result by 7:10 at some stage, accurately.

Antony Green’s latest amazing software had broken down again (poor buggar ‘cos he is the best empirical analyst on offer, he is so earnest about it, but unable to verbalise without qualifying everything he says) so Richo quietly went off to the side with one of his cockatoos (well, he looked like the dishevelled SP bookies’ offsider), an A4 writing pad and a pencil.

They swiftly worked out the meaning of the reports phoned in by all the other Richo lookouts around the place and he returned to the sports commentary team with a confident and (it turned out) accurate prediction of aggregate seat losses and actual seats lost.

I’ve watched him do it for years and I think it is simply because he has tentacles reaching into places that the structurally excellent analytical programs cannot access, and his trusted lookouts have intuition and instinct honed over decades.

I’ll be watching the chubby expert right from the get go, he is better connected than any of ‘em.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

9 Feb 13 at 10:59 pm
Would like to be able to form my own opinions on what is or isn’t in the movie and whether the movie and the performance of the actors (esp Tommy Lee Jones) justifies an Academy Award nomination.

What, I can’t even talk about an actor’s performance because that might spoil it for you? That is just absurd.

dover_beach

9 Feb 13 at 10:59 pm
james:

That’s all I’ve got to say, it makes me want to puke. Cry the Beloved Country, that such worthless, over-promoted, cynical and venal shsyters once held our top jobs.

brilliant.

Pity we cannot apply Rule .303.

Mk50 of Brisbane

9 Feb 13 at 11:03 pm
Any advice from you or anyone else on how to deal with the hippies at uni?

Do not have anything to do with them in anything that involves money. In fact, never trust them in anything at all.

Tom

9 Feb 13 at 11:10 pm
Do not have anything to do with them in anything that involves money. In fact, never trust them in anything at all.

Very good advice. I very much look forward to student politics at Uni. Sadly, most people bar a couple know jack shit about politics. Hardly any knew who Robert Menzies was or the difference between right-wing and left-wing.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 11:12 pm
Sinc, two comments of mine have failed to publish on the Religion thread. The last will do, Sire.

dover_beach

9 Feb 13 at 11:13 pm
Up to 700mm of Global Warming in the US
We need a tax for this.

jumpnmcar

9 Feb 13 at 11:14 pm
Any advice from you or anyone else on how to deal with the hippies at uni?

Ignore them.

When you’re not ignoring them mock them mercilessly. When you’re not doing that, get it on with their hottest chicks.

End of lesson.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 11:15 pm
When you’re not doing that, get it on with their hottest chicks.

I thought most the hippie chicks have lots of tatoos, don’t wash themselves, have odd-coloured or dread-locked hair and have tonnes of piercings. Enough to turn me off. I couldn’t get it on with someone that I hate politically.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 11:18 pm
Rabz
Help me out here.
I’m trying to visualise you and keep getting a Rick Astley hair cut.
Please, set me straight on this.

jumpnmcar

9 Feb 13 at 11:23 pm
get it on with their hottest chicks.

Listen to Uncle Rabzie, Andrew. Everything has a strategic purpose.

Tom

9 Feb 13 at 11:26 pm
most the hippie chicks have lots of tatoos, don’t wash themselves, have odd-coloured or dread-locked hair and have tonnes of piercings.

They do now, it seems.

Back when I was at uni they had big eyes, big hair and big tits – and none of the bugs you’ve mentioned above.

In that case, try your luck with whatever you can get your hands on, literally – you’ll not find many conservative chicks unless you join the liberal club. If you do, be warned – they have very expensive tastes…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 11:28 pm
@ Tom

“I lived among them once without joining up. The most emotionally dishonest fucked up cult of overgrown children I’ve ever come across.”

and

“Do not have anything to do with them in anything that involves money. In fact, never trust them in anything at all.”

————————-

You’ve got it tabbed, Tom. Being a hippie meant (and means) never having to say you’re sorry. Situational ethics, or karma, or whatever, man.

As for money, the “iconic” Aquarius Festival in Nimbin involved massive rip-offs by leading figures who were regarded as demi-gods. They and their entourages flew all over the place and claimed unaccountable expenses in the name of the Revolution. The Australian Union of Students paid the bills, from money extracted compulsorily from students.

Many so-called ‘hippies’ were merely deluded fools. But an awful lot of them were predators of various kinds wearing beads and fringing.

johanna

9 Feb 13 at 11:32 pm
I’m trying to visualise you and keep getting a Rick Astley hair cut.
Please, set me straight on this.

jump – if it’s any consolation, I’ve never had a ‘do like that in my life.

Ask the CCC™ – hopefully they can confirm.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 11:32 pm
In that case, try your luck with whatever you can get your hands on, literally – you’ll not find many conservative chicks unless you join the liberal club. If you do, be warned – they have very expensive tastes…

If they have more moderate beliefs that myself, then I could tolerate that. In general, I am much more conservative and further to the right than the large majority of people my age. The money side of things is not so bad for me, I am very stingy with how much I spend.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 11:34 pm
Who is the ‘urthboy’ fool rambling on Q&A? And what the f”ck is be doing there?

John Mc

9 Feb 13 at 11:35 pm
John MC, the guy was embarrassing on there.

What was funny on Monday’s QandA was when a twee came up from Juliana Dullard. My Dad and I were laughing our heads off.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 11:38 pm
Tim Blair has Rudd’s video complaint letter to the AFP. Remarkably, he expresses anger and puzzlement that Julia Gillard’s staff – including Hodges – have not been interviewed.

C.L.

9 Feb 13 at 11:40 pm
Ask the CCC™ – hopefully they can confirm.

No need Rabz, I trust you.
Give me a hint though, it’s doing my head in trying to place a hairdo on ya.

jumpnmcar

9 Feb 13 at 11:40 pm
Rabz is totally Rick Astley. He does the moves and everything.

dd

9 Feb 13 at 11:40 pm
This is starting to get rather scary.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/government-could-control-taste-of-cigarettes-raise-taxes-in-battle-against-smoking/story-fncynkc6-1226574529787

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 11:40 pm
God has inspired me to start blogging again.

http://thaiyobbo.wordpress.com/

Not all the posts will be about religion. I have a lot to say about life in Thailand.

Yobbo

9 Feb 13 at 11:41 pm
Andrew
This is not a good introduction
“The money side of things is not so bad for me, I am very stingy with how much I spend.”
I once had a mexican standoff at the movies ticket box with a man like you. I did not back down, I feigned total ignorance of money matters until he paid for the tickets and the queue could progress and I never went out with him again (my own choice- hmmph).
I thought “the way things start so they might continue.”

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 11:41 pm
Remarkably, he expresses anger and puzzlement that Julia Gillard’s staff – including Hodges – have not been interviewed.

Rudd getting on TV while Gillard overseas, who would have thought that?

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 11:42 pm
Get into the student union. But not the politics. You can then have influence on where union cash gets spent. Take their money away. They hate it.

Pickles

9 Feb 13 at 11:43 pm
I once had a mexican standoff at the movies ticket box with a man like you. I did not back down, I feigned total ignorance of money matters until he paid for the tickets and the queue could progress and I never went out with him again (my own choice- hmmph).
I thought “the way things start so they might continue.”

I do buy things for other people, but only for people I am very close to. Even then, I am cautious about what I am buying.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 11:44 pm
… totally Rick Astley. He does the moves and everything.

Bugger. That ends all pretense.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 11:45 pm
Get into the student union. But not the politics. You can then have influence on where union cash gets spent. Take their money away. They hate it.

A union? *shudders*. They are a waste of time and with the SSAF fee being introduced, even if you don’t want to be apart of the Union, some of your money goes to the union to splurge it on useless crap.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 11:46 pm
Andy – if you’re young enough you can always date schoolgirls.

I was 17 in first year and none of the Uni chicks would even acknowledge I existed.

Schoolgirls however, were a different story. They loved going out with a uni student.

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 11:49 pm
Andy – if you’re young enough you can always date schoolgirls.

I was 17 in first year and none of the Uni chicks would even acknowledge I existed.

Schoolgirls however, were a different story. They loved going out with a uni student.

LOL, I don’t think so. I am 19 this June so I doubt that will work and I look old for my age, people say.

Andrew

9 Feb 13 at 11:52 pm
Andy – plenty of time and they are streaming out of Wynyard in the thousands so a neighbour used to say to me when I said I couldnt find anyone at about that age (19 is young). You cant hurry love. (oh and at your age its good you are careful with your money).

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 11:56 pm
Andrew
WTF are you doing on the net on saturday night?
About to go out right?

jumpnmcar

9 Feb 13 at 11:57 pm
My mother also used to say “dont worry there are penty of fish in the sea”. Its family legend now that I once replied “well why do I always get the ones John West rejects?”

Aliice

9 Feb 13 at 11:58 pm
Trying to ‘describe’ this ‘gubberment’ is well nigh on impossible.

Couldn’t drive a greasy stick up a dog’s arse.
Not fit to shovel shit from once place to another.

Anyone want to add their version?

Splatacrobat

9 Feb 13 at 11:58 pm
I am 19 this June

Excellent. By the time you’re 20 most girls aged 18-22 will be throwing themselves at you anyway, so don’t sweat it.

Until you behold a Siren. Then life gets interesting…

Rabz

9 Feb 13 at 11:58 pm
Andrew, foreign students are far more likely to be conservative than local ones. Especially Chinese Singaporean and Malays, who are a fairly big percentage of foreign uni students.

Also far more likely to be smoking hot. IMO.

Yobbo

10 Feb 13 at 12:06 am
Andrew
WTF are you doing on the net on saturday night?
About to go out right?

Was out last night/this morning and going out tomorrow night for a bit. Tbh, I am not much of a party animal. I don’t really enjoy standing around at a party when 90% of the people are off their face after an hour of drinking and are vomiting for the rest of the night. Still go out a bit tho.

Andrew

10 Feb 13 at 12:07 am
Splat – couldn’t do them justice in less than about 30 trillion words, unfortunately…

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 12:08 am
This is starting to get rather scary.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/government-could-control-taste-of-cigarettes-raise-taxes-in-battle-against-smoking/story-fncynkc6-1226574529787

Agreed. Fascism rules.

My first wife smoked. I once put horsehair in all her ciggies. She said they tasted dearedful, but still continued to smoke them.

Hard core addicts will do anything for their nicotine hit.

Will

10 Feb 13 at 12:08 am
I have seen Rabz in the flesh and assure readers that he is not Rick Astley.

Beyond that, the CCC cone of silence descends, which is fortunate for me.

To the nice (but gormless) chap above – seeking advice from Catallaxy is not the way to get laid. Get off the computer and hit some bars and live music venues.

johanna

10 Feb 13 at 12:10 am
Anyone want to add their version?

They couldn’t run a choko vine over a shithouse.

jumpnmcar

10 Feb 13 at 12:10 am
Andrew, foreign students are far more likely to be conservative than local ones. Especially Chinese Singaporean and Malays, who are a fairly big percentage of foreign uni students.

Also far more likely to be smoking hot. IMO.

A former high school teacher told me to get into a group of Asian students at uni. Will work hard and they can carry you along with doing the work and help you out. It is interesting how many Asian people lie more with the conservative right than the left considering that Lefties think they own the minority ethnic groups.

Andrew

10 Feb 13 at 12:10 am
seeking advice from Catallaxy is not the way to get laid. Get off the computer and hit some bars and live music venues.

I was not on here to get advice about getting laid. We were originally discussing lefties and hippies.

Andrew

10 Feb 13 at 12:11 am
Anyone want to add their version?

Could not organise a piss up in a brewery?

Andrew

10 Feb 13 at 12:12 am
Thank you, Johanna.

Opinion is equally divided at this point – one each.

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 12:13 am
Anyone want to add their version?

Oh, OK.

Only one of them is able to organise a root in a brothel.

And he denies it…

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 12:15 am
Asian girls even have conservative names.

Eunice, Grace, Evelyn, Wendy, Faith, Joy, , Gladys, Agnes.

You would never meet a white woman under 40 with those names, but they are very common in Singapore and Malaysia.

Yobbo

10 Feb 13 at 12:15 am
One of my sons had a visit from Karma a 3am this morning as he was walking home from the nightclubs.
In the form of a cheeseburger to the chest from a moving car.LOL
Apparently the sober youth visit Maccas in the early hours and buy ammo.
10 soft serves for $3.
Bargain.

jumpnmcar

10 Feb 13 at 12:20 am
Asian girls even have conservative names.

Eunice, Grace, Evelyn, Wendy, Faith, Joy, , Gladys, Agnes.

Is Wendy that out of fashion?

Does this country no longer possess a burgeoning librarian industry?

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 12:24 am
Asian girls even have conservative names.

Yep, knew one a coupla time 25 years ago named Apple.

jumpnmcar

10 Feb 13 at 12:27 am
Andrew, if you are 19 years old and not thinking about getting laid, you (a) have a medical problem or (b) are fooling nobody except your self.

Rabz, nice of you to lay the pavers on a hot day in preparation for what should be an awesome election party.

johanna

10 Feb 13 at 12:35 am
Andrew, if you are 19 years old and not thinking about getting laid, you (a) have a medical problem or (b) are fooling nobody except your self.

I meant I am not thinking about advice on getting laid when going on a blog like catallaxy. :p

Andrew

10 Feb 13 at 12:36 am
Asian girls even have conservative names.

Eunice, Grace, Evelyn, Wendy, Faith, Joy, , Gladys, Agnes.

I guess it’s one way to stand out in the Beijeng telephone directory. 3 million Mei Wongs, only 30,000 Wendy Wongs.

Splatacrobat

10 Feb 13 at 12:38 am
All CCC™ members are invited, as well as other Cats who might want to head to ZP to soak up da atmosphere.

How many spare bedrooms/couches do you have, Rabz?

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 12:54 am
30,000 Wendy Wongs

My bank manager’s wife’s name is Wendy Wong.

Yobbo

10 Feb 13 at 12:55 am
How many spare bedrooms/couches do you have, Rabz?

Depends on how many turn up, Gab!

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 12:57 am
If they have more moderate beliefs that myself, then I could tolerate that.

Beliefs? Andrew, you’re young, listen to your Uncle Rabz.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 1:06 am
Anyone want to add their version?

They couldn’t organise a bj in a brothel. (Bit rude and unladylike but it’s past midnight).

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 1:11 am
“Asian girls”? WTF does that mean?

I let a lot of this kind of crap go through to the keeper on the Cat. But enough is enough. Are you seriously suggesting that “Asian girls” are all the same? The only similarity they have is that their skin is a bit darker than that of Anglo Celtic Australians.

The unpleasant attack on Mick’s wife that recently disgraced these pages (suggesting that she was a mail-order bride = whore) ought to have given people pause for thought. Apparently not in this case.

And if you think that “Asian women” are a pushover, good luck if you are faced with a Punjabi, Singaporean or Malaysian Chinese woman in the divorce courts, to name just a few examples.

As for names, traditional Chinese names for girls are often flowers – there are lots of women named Jasmine, for example. The weird characterisation of names for “Asian women” mentioned above is just bizarre.

Sex bars in Thailand and bits of Hong Kong are not Asia.

johanna

10 Feb 13 at 1:35 am
Fairfax publishes laughable corporate advertisement/junk science:

Living a lie after lapsing only adds to stress.

SMOKERS who try to hide their habit after failing to quit may encounter numerous side effects, including anxiety, shame and reactive depression, further compounding the social stigma of being a smoker.

Secret smokers suffer from heightened stress and diminished self-esteem as they try to maintain their lie. And, for those in the public eye, the effects can be magnified.

”Public figures will feel it more,” said Melinda Barone, vice-president of the Australian Association of Smoking Cessation Professionals. ”They’re not just failing a significant other, like family members or co-workers, they’re betraying their public image.”

These people have become frightening wackos.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 2:04 am
Mobile phones have sadly the massacred the time-honoured tradition of arguing about trivia in the pub. Someone just googles the true answer on the smartphone now.

They’ve also ruined punctuality. People now seem to think they can arrive whenever they want as long as they send a text.

Infidel Tiger

10 Feb 13 at 2:15 am
Julie Bishop says, correctly, that women can’t usually expect to have both a great career and much time with their children; this brings Gillard-supporters out from under their rocks:
Janey of NSW posts:

This is the difference between Bishop from the coalition and Gillard from the labor party. It is about time women could have it all. We just need assistance and direction from the government and business. The Prime Minister gives me hope that all will be done to achieve this for women whereas Julie Bishop thinks it’s all hopeless. I suspect this is because she does not belong to the party of great reforms.

Gillard our only hope of Qld posts:

Women haven’t had it all so give up? I know who I wont be voting for with this attitude.

David McGeoch of Lake Macquarie posts:

This is rubbish. My Mum is a successful doctor, but also did a great job raising us. There are some sacrifices both men and women have to make to raise kids, but they can still be successful. They can still “have it all.”

Tee hee.

Deadman

10 Feb 13 at 2:33 am
Here’s hoping.

My three main hoped for election night events:

1. Lardarse’s concession speech

2. Ruff losing his seat

3. Goose Swansteen (after losing his seat) getting owned again by Kroges

I’m going to need at least six bottles of Moet on the evening of September 14*.

Nah.

1. Windsor losing.
2. Oakeshott losing.
3. Swan losing.

Gillard’s concession speech will just be white noise.

Infidel Tiger

10 Feb 13 at 2:42 am
“Asian girls”? WTF does that mean?

In English, it typically means “female humans of an east or south east asian ethnicity”. Don’t you have access to a dictionary?

Are you seriously suggesting that “Asian girls” are all the same? The only similarity they have is that their skin is a bit darker than that of Anglo Celtic Australians.

Well, no. In the case of girls from Singapore, they also have the similarity that they grew up in Singapore rather than Australia. A pretty significant distinction.

The weird characterisation of names for “Asian women” mentioned above is just bizarre.

Sorry to let facts get in the way of your tirade, but the names I quoted are in fact much more popular among Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese than they are among Australians.

You can google a list of baby names yourself if you want. It’s really not controversial, all countries have differing preferences for baby names.Names are a product of culture, and different cultures have different naming preferences.

Singapore and Malaysian Chinese are significantly more conservative than Australians, and baby names reflect that. Names with religious backgrounds are much more common among English-speaking Chinese.

I never said the names were weird, I said that they were conservative. And by that I really meant old-fashioned.

Sex bars in Thailand and bits of Hong Kong are not Asia.

How very racist of you.

Yobbo

10 Feb 13 at 2:44 am
Johanna, Catallaxy is probably the most pro-Asian blog in the western world. Would you have chucked the shits if the term Asian woman was replaced with European woman?

Infidel Tiger

10 Feb 13 at 2:49 am
Yobbo, i just went out for drinks with another bloke from WA who lives in Thailand. He manufactures pre-fab buildings up there and sends them back to Australia to be assembled.

His monthly rent for his villa is $270.

Infidel Tiger

10 Feb 13 at 2:51 am
Mine is about the same. 8500 thai baht for a month.

500m from the beach.

Yobbo

10 Feb 13 at 2:57 am
Yobbo, blog more about Thailand, not religion. Ex-pat blogs are great to read.

Spam filter keeps eating my link, but a blog I sometimes read about an ex-pat in China is great:

1. When the Japanese come to my office, they have washed and brushed their teeth. I therefore am prepared to listen to them for longer. They are also more polite, or, put another way, they have heard of manners and practise using them. When we eat together, I am not repulsed.

mylaowai dot com

Infidel Tiger

10 Feb 13 at 3:16 am
Yobbo, to suggest that “Asian girls” is meaningful as a definition anywhere except in a catalogue of sex services is bullshit. Someone from northern Thailand has nothing whatsoever in common with someone from south Vietnam, or the Philippines, except that that they are not Europeans.

Your nonsense about baby names (and I wouldn’t rely on Google to tell me what people in Laos or Cambodia are calling their kids) is a feeble attempt to cover your previous absurdities. Hong Kong is full of Wellington Ho’s and Napoleon Wang’s. They also have full Chinese names, and certainly don’t regard the adoption of names of great military leaders as an admission of defeat.

So, tell us more about “Asian girls”, including the wife of Mick and at least one other poster here whose name I can’t remember just now (Japanese wife). I’ll save my own family connections for your response.

johanna

10 Feb 13 at 3:16 am
Some of the best Catholic girls I know are Vietnamese. They’re lovely, have a certain something that many Anglophone women have now buried beneath whining, grievance and dumb attempts to imitate men, they’re proud dressers, feminine.

Great people to bring into the joint. The men too.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 3:42 am
Yobbo has a point. Having lived in Malaysia, there are lot of women I worked with who had names like Agnes, Doris and other fairly old-fashioned Anglophone examples. This was particularly among the Chinese population. The Malay women had more traditional names of their cultural background, but still there were examples like the above.

The chicks I worked with up there were great value. Well educated, good sense of humour, good moral fibre and yet not uptight about most things.

My experiences in short terms assignments in Thailand and Vietnam were the same.

tbh

10 Feb 13 at 3:49 am
Johanna, Yobbo is the last person you could accuse of being a bigot. You are onto a loser here.

Now, that spit-flecked arsehole who gives the Irish a bad name… The one who hurls abuse, hates facts and has an aneurism every time he gets slapped. Forget his name… now THERE’S a bigot.

Abu Chowdah

10 Feb 13 at 4:02 am
Yobbo, to suggest that “Asian girls” is meaningful as a definition anywhere except in a catalogue of sex services is bullshit.

It means “girls from Asia”. Sorry you are struggling with this, but it’s really not that controversial a term as you think.

Perhaps you should report this wikipedia article for racial insensitivity?

Someone from northern Thailand has nothing whatsoever in common with someone from south Vietnam, or the Philippines, except that that they are not Europeans.

This is not true on a multitude of levels.

I wouldn’t rely on Google to tell me what people in Laos or Cambodia are calling their kids

Luckily then, I was specifically talking about Chinese Singaporeans and Malaysians then, as I have made clear in every post on this topic? Obviously Cambodians don’t call their kids Grace. Singaporeans and Malaysians do.

So, tell us more about “Asian girls”, including the wife of Mick and at least one other poster here whose name I can’t remember just now (Japanese wife).

You obviously don’t have a very good memory, but I was the first and most vociferous denouncer of Aliice’s derogatory racist comments towards Mick’s wife.

So, OK, I will tell you more about “asian girls”, and by “asian girls” I am talking, as I have made clear in every post, about Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese girls, who grew up in a culture where not only is the memory of British Colonialism still pretty fresh, but in a culture where Christianity made a fair bit more headway than anywhere else in the world with a Chinese majority.

This, in a large part, is why Chinese Singaporeans and Malaysians much more commonly choose English names that most Western parents would consider old-fashioned. These names were popular when the British left Malaya and Singapore, and Singapore and Malaysia have not been nearly as keen to take up certain aspects of American culture – baby names being a big one – as Australia has.

For comparison, take a look at this list of Australian baby names from the 1930′s.

The 1930s list contains a lot of names that you would only hear attached to your grandmother. Nowadays in Australia.

Margaret
Yvonne
Patricia
Joan
Joyce

Just a few examples.

Now take a look at the list from 2012

The names are very, very different. And there is ample evidence that a big part of the reason for that is the appearance of names that are definitely American in origin, or at least popularised there first.

Madison (appears twice in the top 50 with different spelllings)
Georgia (popularised by Ray Charles)
Sienna
Scarlett
Savannah

etc.

These names hardly ever appear in places like Singapore or Malaysia, because they are still naming their children with English and Biblical names, rather than names from American pop culture.

The exact same thing is true for boys, too, btw. Not many Singaporean boys called “Hunter” or “Harrison”, for example. Lots of Isaac, Daniel and Aaron though. All those are biblical names, in case you didn’t get the connection.

Hong Kong and Taiwan are a very different case, because a fair amount of those kids choose their own English name when they start learning English at school, which leads to very unpredictable results.

My ex-girlfriend of 6 years and recently naturalised Australian citizen (grats btw), Kuo Chieh Hua, chose her own English name – Jessica. Some of her friends chose weirder ones. But she is Taiwanese, not Singaporean.

Yobbo

10 Feb 13 at 4:13 am
And might I end off tonight by wishing you a very happy Chinese New Year, or at least as happy as you can manage in your current state of mind.

Yobbo

10 Feb 13 at 4:19 am
Yobbo, blog more about Thailand, not religion. Ex-pat blogs are great to read.

I’ve got lots of stuff to write about Thailand. But I’m going to try and pace it out to 1 post a day so I don’t run out of content too fast.

Yobbo

10 Feb 13 at 4:22 am
suggesting that she was a mail-order bride = whore

And BTW, I think that stating that mail-order brides are whores is one of the most bigoted things I have ever read here.

In fact, mail order brides are typically women who specifically did not want to become whores. So much so that they are willing to leave their family, friends and country behind in search of a better life in a foreign country. Being a whore is much easier.

Mail order brides are by definition searching for a better life, but to say that makes someone a whore is ridiculous. By that definition, any woman who gets married and doesn’t plan to work is a whore.

I live in Thailand. I know the difference between a mail order bride and a whore. There are hundreds of thousands of women here for whom being a mail-order bride would be a dream come true.

Yobbo

10 Feb 13 at 4:35 am
Potemkin’s Village

Evil’s methods are… here

Grigory Potemkin

10 Feb 13 at 5:44 am
What the fuck?

Abu Chowdah

10 Feb 13 at 5:50 am
Very clever as always Grigory! Who else would have seen the humourous side of Zyklon B?

Fisky

10 Feb 13 at 6:14 am
Couldn’t have excoriated that shite cartoon better myself.

Abu Chowdah

10 Feb 13 at 6:54 am
I am 19 this June so I doubt that will work and I look old for my age, people say.

Ditch the cardigan, Andrew. That adds at least 10 years onto you.

On a slightly more serious note, by all means don’t buy drinks or dinner for girls. Especially the hippy chicks ~ get them to pay for you in the spirit of equality and all that.

nilk

10 Feb 13 at 7:13 am
Johanna, Yobbo is the last person you could accuse of being a bigot. You are onto a loser here.

Now, that spit-flecked arsehole who gives the Irish a bad name… The one who hurls abuse, hates facts and has an aneurism every time he gets slapped. Forget his name… now THERE’S a bigot.

Sez the inanity who equated with facility only a few days ago, Mao’s and Stalin’s evil leading to the antecendent torture and subsequent annihilation of 100 million with pre-20th Century Christianity.

What a nasty piece of bigoted work you are Chowdah.

JamesK

10 Feb 13 at 7:55 am
I have no doubt this is accurate: McTernan has been feeding “gotchas” to the Fairfax press on Thursday nights to damage TA during his weekly appearance on breakfast television the next morning:

TONY Abbott’s office has vetoed his rival Malcolm Turnbull from replacing him on Channel Nine’s Today Show after the Liberal leader dumped his regular spot.

In the latest example of the Coalition’s “small target” strategy in the lead up to the election, Mr Abbott was missing from his breakfast slot on Friday.

After complaining that the Labor Party was “planting” negative stories about the Coalition in the Friday newspapers and then forcing Mr Abbott to cop the fallout on air, his office informed the program he would no longer appear weekly.

But when the Today show locked in the man he replaced as Liberal leader to replace him, Mr Abbott’s office demanded Mr Turnbull withdraw from the arrangement.
Coalition insiders are deeply concerned that a media stumble by Mr Abbott remains one of the greatest threats to him ruining what many believe to be an unloseable election.

Paranoia has reached such heights that at a briefing of Coalition chiefs of staff in Canberra this week, Mr Abbott’s chief of staff Peta Credlin told staff to stay off Twitter and watch out for waiters with recording devices, citing the covert recording of US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a fundraiser.

The Liberal Party remains thrilled that former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will be making mischief every Friday on Channel 7′s own breakfast TV program Sunrise, in a political headache for Julia Gillard. He has reunited with his old sparring partner Joe Hockey after Sunrise terminated Labor frontbencher Tony Burke’s regular spot by email.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 7:58 am
Remeber when Keneally said “I’m nobody’s girrrl!”
Alex Mitchell in the SMH begs to differ, while telling the story of Eddie Obeid’s rise, then the downfall of Carr and a couple of subsequent premiers. Richo admirers may also find his image a little tarnished by the whole saga.
Link.

Blogstrop

10 Feb 13 at 8:03 am
Hi Sinc

Please release me, let me go, I’m trapped moderator Limbo ’cause I want to shorten my blog name to Tinta — thanks

In the meantime Piers Akerman has a piece in the Tele looking at the various plot lines of In Canberra With Julia, UnderBelly Labor and That’s not Sporting of Youse or notes on such themes.

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 8:22 am
Today — Niki Savva versus the left:

Insiders – 2013, Episode 02

Series Synopsis

A not-to-be missed analysis of the week’s political news, with interviews, discussion and analysis with Barrie Cassidy and guests.

Episode Synopsis

Episode 02
Barrie Cassidy interviews the Minister for Home Affairs Jason Clare. On the panel this week are Fran Kelly, George Megalogenis and Niki Savva, plus Mike Bowers is Talking Pictures with Andrew Meares.

Watch how Niki is prevented from finishing her sentences by the two comical tsunamis of smug knowall arrogance with help from the taxpayer-funded ABC activist (causes by appointment). Just as well the ex-Fairfax clown prince who runs the joint has fully investigated the bias thing and it doesn’t exist.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 8:29 am
Tinta, please don’t change your blog identity: it’s a thing of beauty.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 8:32 am
Tinta, please don’t change your blog identity: it’s a thing of beauty.

Hi Tom, d’y think? I just thought it was a little too…. um.. Italian? but then again it’s fairly accurate except for everything else.

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 8:45 am
Nah.

1. Windsor losing.
2. Oakeshott losing.
3. Swan losing.

Gillard’s concession speech will just be white noise.

1. Barnaby Joyce doing a live cross to Windor’s concession speech
2. Bell weather seat Eden Monaro clanged by 7.00pm giving the all clear to the stenographer’s guild to accurately predict a Labor defeat.
3. Watching the computer graphics of the chamber and seeing lots of blue blob people, only a handful of red blob people, and no Independant blob people.

Splatacrobat

10 Feb 13 at 8:46 am
Who would have thought that a leak enquiry conducted by the AFP would fail to interview anyone who might normally be considered a suspect. This Government is causing the AFP to make a laughing stock out of itself.

John Comnenus

10 Feb 13 at 8:54 am
Insiders – Sunday self flagellation.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:03 am
Insiders – Fran Kelly “they are getting legal substances illegally”

Living proof that a human can survive without a functioning brain.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:07 am
2. Bell weather seat Eden Monaro clanged by 7.00pm giving the all clear to the stenographer’s guild to accurately predict a Labor defeat.

That will only take that long if the stenographers deliberately ignore Eden Monaro as long as possible.

Entropy

10 Feb 13 at 9:08 am
Indiders – soft interview with Jason Clair (?sic).

Trivia *if you yell in his ear you can hear the echo*

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:16 am
Has Sinc been shafted? Another academic talking head is on RN in the slot Doomlord thought he had.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 9:17 am
Johanna

You need to calm down. You throw this at Jump…

“Asian girls? WTF does that mean?”
Then you go on about “this crap going through the CAT” you object to.

(Id say Asian girls means Asian girls. WTF is wrong with that?).

Then you comment on Andrew.

“Andrew, if you are 19 years old and not thinking about getting laid, you (a) have a medical problem or (b) are fooling nobody except your self.”

Do you see the contradictions?.

a) you assumed someone else made a sweeping generalisation when there wasnt one and complained that CAT shouldnt “let this stuff go through”

b) you made a sweeping generalisation yourself

Are you a CATCOP? Do we believe your pronouncements on what is right and wrong? Ive been on the receiving end of your comments and frankly you make crap up to suit yourself.

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 9:23 am
bellwether = 1.The leading sheep of a flock, with a bell on its neck.
2.An indicator or predictor of something.

not weather. Sorry to be a pedant.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 9:28 am
blob people?

So, where’s Ellis in this blobby thing?

kae

10 Feb 13 at 9:29 am
Yobbo

Firstly I know nothing about Micks wife and you and Johanna got both your knickers tied in a knot and need to get over it. Johanna has mentioned “her own family connections” above so apparently leaps at every shadow like an alarm clock if the word Asian is mentioned, and my comments weeks ago were directed at MK50, the idiot who called me greenslime not Mick from the Goldcoast. For my error (of mistaking Mick for MK50).
I apologised for that and for nothing else because the rest of what you silly wowsers misinterpreted is your own damn business.

Go beat a drum about it.

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 9:31 am
So, where’s Ellis in this blobby thing?

Stuck under a Penberthy i think.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:32 am
Insiders – Fran the vacuous concedes liebor is in more shit than the early settlers.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:34 am
Sinc’s on RN now with others.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 9:34 am
Tom, what is the topic for discussion on RN?

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:36 am
I fear the entire election night coverage will be taken up with Oakeshott’s concession speech.

2dogs

10 Feb 13 at 9:42 am
Thanks to all for the live coverage of Insiders – I can’t bear to watch it. Jason Clare is a waste of space, sprung fully-formed from the DNA cesspool that passes on Labor values.

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 9:42 am
Couldn’t start a fire in a printers with a Zippo borrowed from Eddie Obeid.

Pickles

10 Feb 13 at 9:43 am
Oh dear, Am I still being discussed? At least a topic brought up because of me. :p

Andrew

10 Feb 13 at 9:44 am
what is the topic for discussion on RN?

Drugs in sport.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 9:45 am
Insiders – Megalogloglog “a projected surplus is not a promise”

Niki – “he told a porky” aaaaaaaahahahahahahaha

Fran – uber dumb.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:46 am
Niki Savva is supposedly doing quite well with the three lefties

Andrew

10 Feb 13 at 9:48 am
Yobbo,

Id like you both to look and see which series of words offend you the most

Asian wife
Mail order bride
Asian girls

Personally I reckon “mail order brides” is worse that anything I said Yobbo that you “vociderously objected to” yet you bandied this one about all by yourself.

“Mail order bride” is western terminology implying Asian wives can be bought which you admit above “is a dream come true” for some. I agree, it is. I have seen it and I might (would) be dreaming the same thing if I lived in poverty in some poorer area of Asia of which there are many poor areas.

I think we call this reality. There are also Australian men (and other countries of origin) who may have trouble attracting local women for one reason or another and this is an eminently suitable arrangement.

I think its called life. At no stage anywhere did I intend to insult anyone but MK50 and its also called a joke comment designed to rile someone. I said nothing negative about Asian women at all and you are both a pair of fools for carrying on about it and then using more derogatory phrases like “Mail order brides” yourself (Yobbo).

As for Johanna she is now after both you Yobbo and Jump (and me again) for daring to mention “Asian Girls”. What next? We wont be allowed to mention anything that implies a general region.
Will “Western girls” be on your objected to list as well Johanna? How about “Russian girls?”

Madness, madness and more madness at the CAT.

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 9:48 am
Andrew you will be fine as long as you dont listen to anyone here!

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 9:51 am
Asian wife
Mail order bride
Asian girls

I have had people in the past call my wife a mail order bride, it did not end well for them.

I’m not sure about other parts of SE Asia but being ‘interviewed’ by a Japanese mother why you will make a good husband for their daughter is like having a job interview whilst being waterboarded.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:54 am
Andrew, always be quietly cheerful, have fun, keep your mouth shut, you can’t go wrong.

Progressive Calisthenics wouldn’t hurt, don’t rush it.

Forester

10 Feb 13 at 9:56 am
Carpe Fran is extensively verbally vacuous on most things.

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 10:00 am
Progressive Calisthenics wouldn’t hurt

and take up fishing, women like a man who will bait their hook and clean the catch.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 10:01 am
Fran is extensively verbally vacuous on most things.

Harsh but fair.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 10:02 am
Just saw that Lew Griffiths, offsider to Noel Pearson, died after a fall. 56 yrs old and 3 boys under 8. All round tragedy.

Pickles

10 Feb 13 at 10:02 am
I got all the way through without being violently ill!

I think because Fran and Mega have patently just given up entirely. They didn’t even really manage to make much if the Northern Australia thing. Even Leathery sounds pretty much resigned to the impending disaster.

Savva wins by walkover.

mct

10 Feb 13 at 10:10 am
Jason Clair played possibly the most shamelessly and self-righteously thug illiberal big government Minister of the Crown EVAH on Insiders this morning.

And nobody has batted an eye.

JamesK

10 Feb 13 at 10:16 am
Savva wins by walkover.

Agreed, you could feel the despair from dumb, bumber & fran.

On election day i shall distill their tears into a liver destroying firewater.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 10:19 am
For the first time in living memory (slight exaggeration) Insiders focused on the woes of the ALP. Right at the end Fran Kelly suggested Jason Clare is the ALP’s secret weapon in Western Sydney. Time for the Libs to start working out how close he was to all the various ALP NSW Right scum that have, are or will be heading to ICAC, courts and jail across NSW.

Jason Clare worked for Premier Bob Carr up until 2007. Orkopolous was charged in 2008 after his crimes were allegedly covered up for some time by his political minders. Was Clare aware of the allegations against Milton Orkopolous and did he help cover up these allegations whilst working in the Premoers office? The allegations against Orkopoulos were supposedly covered up by the Premier’s office and in particular against the whistle blower in Orkopoulos’s electorate office. Was Clare aware of this? If so why didn’t he intervene to protect the whistle blower?

John Comnenus

10 Feb 13 at 10:21 am
I fear the entire election night coverage will be taken up with Oakeshott’s concession speech.

I doubt he’ll stand for re-election.

I suspect he’ll be employed by a wealthy pro-Labor business man 4 months after the election in early 2014; the deal having been agreed to in 2010 whilst Gillard was caretaker rather the subsequent union thugs’ PM

JamesK

10 Feb 13 at 10:24 am
On election day i shall distill their tears into a liver destroying firewater.

Carpe I think you could start even earlier now that we know the election date. D’you think you could do a line of that liver-destroying firewater on-line?

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 10:25 am
Just thinking about changes to the Coalition frontbench

Out: Abetz, Andrews, B Bishop & Dutton
In: Briggs, Sinodinos, Frydenberg & O’Dwyer

What do people think?

Andrew

10 Feb 13 at 10:30 am
Jason Clare has been in Parliament since 2007. Prior to that he worked as an adviser to Premier Carr. I can’t imagine that the Premier adviser income is very substantial. Yet Jason Clare has managed to buy himself a unit in Neutral Bay, a unit in Cronulla and his wife has a unit in Redfern. I am guessing that’s about $2 mil in real estate. He and his wife also operate seven savings accounts. Interestingly his two mortgages come from Newcastle Permanent Building Society. Why would you get a mortgage from someone you do no other business with? Surely Westpac would offer generous rates and discounts for bringing all of his business to Westpac.

Read his Register of Interests here.

John Comnenus

10 Feb 13 at 10:30 am
In: Briggs, Sinodinos, Frydenberg & O’Dwyer

Sinodinos – yes, he’s already Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader of the Opposition

The others will be Parliamentary Secretaries only as they are inexperienced though all clearly future stars.

JamesK

10 Feb 13 at 10:35 am
“What do people think?”

I don’t think Mr Abbott will move to change anyone, Andrew.

candy

10 Feb 13 at 10:39 am
Jason Clare worked for Premier Bob Carr up until 2007. Orkopolous was charged in 2008 after his crimes were allegedly covered up for some time by his political minders. Was Clare aware of the allegations against Milton Orkopolous and did he help cover up these allegations whilst working in the Premoers office? The allegations against Orkopoulos were supposedly covered up by the Premier’s office and in particular against the whistle blower in Orkopoulos’s electorate office. Was Clare aware of this? If so why didn’t he intervene to protect the whistle blower?

I hope a Liberal is reading this, and asks about this to Carr and Clare in Parliament.

.

10 Feb 13 at 10:40 am
I fear the entire election night coverage will be taken up with Oakeshott’s concession speech.

It will be something like a filibuster; it will go on for so long he hopes we will forget we even had an election.

dover_beach

10 Feb 13 at 10:43 am
D’you think you could do a line of that liver-destroying firewater on-line?

I think that is a fine idea, i just need to come up with a catchy name and a marketing strategy.

I was originally thinking of callling it – Vin de suck my big toe beotches, but that got vetoed by Lady Jugulum.

Le Gopener & Panther Piss have been taken so i’m up for new ideas.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 10:45 am
Hannity Interviews Dr. Ben Carson About National Prayer Breakfast Speech

Dr. Benjamin Carson talked to Sean Hannity about the speech he delivered at Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast where he railed against political correctness and Obamacare while President Obama was in attendance

JamesK

10 Feb 13 at 10:51 am
Read his Register of Interests here.

John C, his only investment is with Transurban, which i believe is the much rorted public trnsport authority and he has super with Cbus.

I’m guessing the cfmeu and twu/rtbu own him body & soul.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 10:52 am
I think Bronny Bishop would be a cracker of a Speaker.

Tracey

10 Feb 13 at 10:53 am
Is there any more wrap up of Insiders? I can’t bear to give it a statistic on ABC iview. Sounds like the mistakes can’t even be attributed to Abbott this last week, which means they have nothing but drugs in sport. What next week – Wayne Carey and Tim?

Honesty

10 Feb 13 at 10:53 am
WSJ Editorial: Ben Carson for President
The Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon has two big ideas for America.

Late in his talk he dropped two very un-PC ideas. The first is an unusual case for a flat tax: “What we need to do is come up with something simple. And when I pick up my Bible, you know what I see? I see the fairest individual in the universe, God, and he’s given us a system. It’s called a tithe…….

Not surprisingly, a practicing physician has un-PC thoughts on health care:

“Here’s my solution: When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account to which money can be contributed—pretax—from the time you’re born ’til the time you die. If you die, you can pass it on to your family members, and there’s nobody talking about death panels……

The Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon may not be politically correct, but he’s closer to correct than we’ve heard in years.

JamesK

10 Feb 13 at 10:55 am
D’you think you could do a line of that liver-destroying firewater on-line?

I fear the entire election night coverage will be taken up with Oakeshott’s concession speech.

I am seriously thinking of hauling out the Christmas lights for a party on election night.

But you never know. I would hate to have a “Don’s party” moment. And Williamson is a bore anyway.

Entropy

10 Feb 13 at 10:57 am
D’you think you could do a line of that liver-destroying firewater on-line?

Le Gopener & Panther Piss have been taken so i’m up for new ideas.

What about Bint Juice short , catchy, communicates soooo much

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 11:00 am
WSJ Editorial: The Ayatollah Always Says No
Khamenei rejects another U.S. offer. Maybe he wants a bomb.

The Farsi word for “no” is na h, which is easy enough to remember. Maybe even Joe Biden won’t forget it the next time the U.S. tries to reach out diplomatically to Iran.

We’re speaking of the Administration’s latest effort to come to terms with Tehran over its nuclear programs, which Mr. Biden made last weekend at the Munich Security Conference. The U.S. offer of direct bilateral talks, he said, “stands, but it must be real and tangible.” Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi, who was also at the conference though he refused to meet with U.S. officials, called Mr. Biden’s comments “a step forward.”

Mr. Salehi’s remark set the usual hearts aflutter that Iran is finally serious about a deal. But the optimism was brief. On Thursday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei flatly rejected direct talks with the U.S. “The U.S. is pointing a gun at Iran and wants us to talk to them,” he said. “Direct talks will not solve any problems.”

This isn’t the first time Mr. Khamenei has played chaste Daphne to President Obama’s infatuated Apollo

JamesK

10 Feb 13 at 11:02 am
Is there any more wrap up of Insiders

A brief synopsis; Fran proved she was an airhead that needs a loop tape just to breathe in & out, megalolgalogalog couldn’t find any positive spin for the gubbermint and looked like he was about to cry, Leatherface looked defeated and Niki owned all of them.

Woo Hoo

Back to distilling their tears and shame.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 11:02 am
In: Briggs, Sinodinos, Frydenberg & O’Dwyer

Briggs is my local MP. He’s obviously being groomed for a Ministerial role at some stage, having been parachuted into an ultra safe seat.

Can’t say I’m too impressed though, after contacting him about the ETS and firearm laws.

Eddystone

10 Feb 13 at 11:04 am
I think Bronny Bishop would be a cracker of a Speaker.

I agree Tracey, she’d be brilliant, she knows the place inside out and would do the job right way up — whereas the Emily’s Lister we have in the spot at the moment does it upside down and back-to-front.

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 11:05 am
Agreed. I don’t know what pisses me off most about Anna Burke. Her blatant partisanship or her eye rolling and face pulling reminiscent of a spoilt 14 year old drama queen. Not to mention the sotto voce asides that she alone considers so clever.

Steve of Ferny Hills

10 Feb 13 at 11:16 am
What about Bint Juice

Tint, i was thinking of ‘Lacrimis in Exultatione’ the beautiful Lady Jugulum suggested Mujihi (No Mercy) or Hokori to Yorokobi (Pride and joy)

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 11:16 am
Christina Hoff Sommers, NYT Op-Ed:
The Great Divide, The Boys at the Back

Boys score as well as or better than girls on most standardized tests, yet they are far less likely to get good grades, take advanced classes or attend college. Why? A study coming out this week in The Journal of Human Resources gives an important answer. Teachers of classes as early as kindergarten factor good behavior into grades — and girls, as a rule, comport themselves far better than boys.

The study’s authors analyzed data from more than 5,800 students from kindergarten through fifth grade and found that boys across all racial groups and in all major subject areas received lower grades than their test scores would have predicted.

The scholars attributed this “misalignment” to differences in “noncognitive skills”: attentiveness, persistence, eagerness to learn, the ability to sit still and work independently. As most parents know, girls tend to develop these skills earlier and more naturally than boys.

No previous study, to my knowledge, has demonstrated that the well-known gender gap in school grades begins so early and is almost entirely attributable to differences in behavior. The researchers found that teachers rated boys as less proficient even when the boys did just as well as the girls on tests of reading, math and science. (The teachers did not know the test scores in advance.) If the teachers had not accounted for classroom behavior, the boys’ grades, like the girls’, would have matched their test scores.

RTWT

The evidence of actual harm of the feminisation of schooling is now starting to show.

JamesK

10 Feb 13 at 11:19 am
Teachers of classes as early as kindergarten factor good behavior into grades — and girls, as a rule, comport themselves far better than boys.

They are rewarding subservience, a lack of leadership and independent thought.

Ignore it boys, be brave, act civilly, be reflective, speak your mind and follow your beliefs.

.

10 Feb 13 at 11:23 am
Comrades!
The Glories of Glorious Free Glorious Socialist Health Care – explained!

… patients left unbathed and lying in their own urine and excrement; patients left so thirsty that they drank water from vases; patients denied medication, pain relief and food by callous and overworked staff members; patients who contracted infections due to filthy conditions; and patients sent home to die after being given the wrong diagnoses …

No, no, no. Not Cuba, not Venezuela, not the old USSR.

No, this is Britain right now.

Mk50 of Brisbane

10 Feb 13 at 11:24 am
Is Democrat terrorist and gun control advocate Chris Dorner still at large?

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 11:26 am
Bron would be awesome! She knows the rules inside out and I think would bring decency back into the house. Certainly put Albosleasy and Emmo in their place.

Honesty

10 Feb 13 at 11:26 am
Got it – 涙と残念だ。(Tears and Shame) the tripple distilled tipple for the discerning political pundit who has just been booted by the electorate.

Marketing

*Tears and Shame is the prefered spirit of ex-alp ministers*

*you may be a loser – but at least you can get blotto and hump each other*

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 11:28 am
Julia Gillard – sacked for setting up an illegal slush fund for a criminal – calls for sporting clubs to ‘come clean‘ and reveal any criminality in their ranks.

Hilarious stuff.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 11:29 am
Honesty, Insiders was abbottabbottabbott, abbottabbottabbott, that idiot Clare on sportssportssports, followed by abbottabbottabbott, abbottabbottabbott, and for a change some abbottabbottabbott.

I actually enjoyed watching it. The despair in the leftard’s eyes was delicious.

Even more delicious was old leathery’s infantile whining that abbottabbottabbott never comes on the ABC any more.

Next week I believe Insiders will be just like today’s, but with abbottabbottabbott replacing the sports bit. Oh, and with extra whining.

Mk50 of Brisbane

10 Feb 13 at 11:30 am
Carpe, you are a genius.

Mk50 of Brisbane

10 Feb 13 at 11:31 am
The role of the next Coalition speaker is not to bring fairness or “decency” to the House. His or her role will be to ruthlessly shut down the ALP on a daily basis.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 11:31 am
With a margin of just 5.3%, I hope it will be the voters of Rankin that put the Legover Man in his place and not the next Speaker.

Steve of Ferny Hills

10 Feb 13 at 11:32 am
Words fail me

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/television/sir-david-attenborough-accused-of-ignoring-gay-animals-in-bbc-documentaries/story-e6frfmyi-1226574670194

Tracey

10 Feb 13 at 11:34 am
The role of the next Coalition speaker is not to bring fairness or “decency” to the House. His or her role will be to ruthlessly shut down the ALP on a daily basis

Madam Speaker, I refer to standing order 153, that the members of the ALP and Australian Greens are to be expelled from the chamber every day this chamber sits, directly after the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer.

.

10 Feb 13 at 11:36 am
With a margin of just 5.3%, I hope it will be the voters of Rankin that put the Legover Man in his place and not the next Speaker.

I agree Steve, we won’t have that wanker to kick around after the election. It’s hard to appreciate how much you can do on one day to lift parliamentary standards.

Rob

10 Feb 13 at 11:39 am
Carpe, you are a genius.

I believe Lady Jugs provided the inspiration.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 11:39 am
Carpe

They don’t seem to need to be blotto to be humping eachother. Unless they’re blotto all the time, cos it seems to be a regular occurrence.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 11:42 am
Ignore it boys …

Take to heart those fine words never written by John Paul Jones:

He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor.
He should be the soul of tact, patience, justice, firmness, kindness, and charity.

lotocoti

10 Feb 13 at 11:42 am
Darren Lockyer looks into coal seam gas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kNa5pvh_4tQ#!

Suck on that, Alan Jones.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 11:43 am
CL

So hypocritical for the PM to be urging sports people to come clean about lying and cheating.

How can anyone take anything TLS says seriously?

kae

10 Feb 13 at 11:43 am
Sir David Attenborough accused of ‘ignoring gay animals’ in BBC documentaries

Every time I think that the Fall of Rome Mark II cannot be delineated more starkly, the “progressive” forces plumb new depths of asininity.

The fact that a media studies academic (wow, there is a 21st Century oxymoron for you!) has devoted the time to study Attenborough’s entire ouevre of footage looking for slights against animal friends of Dorothy is quite simply mind-boggling.

Then again, it is the University of East Anglia – and we all know the reputation of that upjumped polytechnic when it comes to academic rigour and research integrity…….

James in Melbourne

10 Feb 13 at 11:44 am
I believe Lady Jugs provided the inspiration.

Lets not forget the additional motivation from Tintarella.

See, good women inspire me.

Kae, no amount of eye bleach will cleanse me of that mental image. Hows Floyd (the wonder dog) going?

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 11:51 am
Do NOT watch this whilst drinking coffee!

Michael Davis in front of Ronald and Nancy Reagan in 1982 at Ford Theatre.

Comic genius.

Eddystone

10 Feb 13 at 11:57 am
Sir David Attenborough accused of ‘ignoring gay animals’ in BBC documentaries

Wait, what?

So the homosexual lobby now admits that its suite of grievances and interests includes animal-related matters? Cory Bernardi, take a bow… wow.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 11:58 am
Eddy:

Fantastic, virtuoso performance from Davis. Thanks for posting.

Wasn’t it nice to remember a time when the US still had a real president too, huh?

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 12:13 pm
take a bow… wow.

I see what you did there

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 12:15 pm
WTF?

Today’s McTernan stunt…

Demanding part-time and casual hours to become a ‘right.’

Parents will have the right to request part-time work when they return from having a baby under changes to workplace relations laws, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.

Ms Gillard says the government wants to take some off the burden off modern families who are struggling to balance work with caring for children and sometimes elderly relatives.

Labor will seek to legislate as soon as possible to allow parents to request a return to flexible and part-time work as it works through the recommendations of its review of the Fair Work Act last year, she says.

“And their employer will have to respond to that (request),” she told reporters in New Zealand on Sunday.

About 80 per cent of requests were satisfactorily resolved, but Ms Gillard said formalising the right would make employees more comfortable asking and the legislation would apply to mothers and fathers.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 12:17 pm
Sorry, Carpe. It’s a fact.

Wonderdog is good. Okay, maybe good isn’t the correct word to use here, but he’s well and trying to behave. He hates snakes, lets me know when there’s one around. He’s stopped barking at pigeons. He barks at the neighbours horses when they gallop around the yards. When he knows I’m near he barks and carries on about the old horse in the house yard (keeping the grass down). He knows they’re not supposed to be in the house yard, but can’t tell the difference between which are allowed and which ones have snuck into the house yard to eat the long grass saved for the old fella (28 y.o.).

Meg, on the other hand, is still as dumb as a pallet of bricks but fast as lightning.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 12:25 pm
Comic genius

That was brilliant. Well done Eddy

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 12:26 pm
My workplace is a Mecca for young mothers. All work their few chosen hours here and there. Nothing gets done because they’re not at work consistently enough to actually be responsible for anything. When they do grace us with their presence they spend half the day on the phone to the childcare centre, or the school or the doctor or one of their friends from the bloody Mothers’ Group. This is what you get in large organisations when, over time, entire HR Departments become totally comprised of women.

Tracey

10 Feb 13 at 12:27 pm
Meg, on the other hand, is still as dumb as a pallet of bricks but fast as lightning.

lol

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 12:28 pm
Part time work to become a right?

Those idiots in the ALP have never run businesses, have they?

Oh, wait. Maybe they have. Run them into the ground.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 12:28 pm
Parents will have the right to request part-time work

Please tell me this is a joke.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 12:32 pm
Of course, it’s just a coincidence that the newly minted “right” to casual work hours comes a day after Julie Bishop correctly dismissed feminist-infantile bullshit about women Having It All.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 12:32 pm
And Gillard should be reminded that (she said) she decided not to have children so that she could persue her political career*.

*she said that’s why she made the decision, though it may be because none of her lovers were available to be full-time daddies as they had other commitments, like a wife and kids.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 12:34 pm
though it may be because none of her lovers were available to be full-time daddies as they had other commitments, like a wife and kids.

And also, maybe no available males wanted to be ‘available’.

eam

10 Feb 13 at 12:51 pm
I heard one of the Luna Park clowns on the wireless this morning, think it was gillard, talking about a raft of new IR “measures” they will introduce this week, including new laws involving roster hours. I got the impression employers would not be allowed to change rosters without “consultation” with the employee. “Consultation” being code for penalty via FWA. Talk about putting more restraints on business.

This government is nothing more than a union on steroids.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 12:52 pm
Advertising Executive dilemma which brief to choose?
ALP brief “We have candidates that have broken promises, lied, and corruption plagues the party and we want you to make them look trustworthy”
Coalition brief “Are opponents have broken promises, lied and dogged by corruption, we want you to make them look as they are”

Honesty

10 Feb 13 at 12:57 pm
Even on PJ Media I encounter ads from our benevolent but spendthrift Government (though it already posts the same information to everybody) begging people to check whether* they’re eligible for the “schoolkids bonus”.

• Not “if” as our semi-literate masters have it.

Deadman

10 Feb 13 at 12:58 pm
Poor Ol’ Leathery. Every week he wants to come on the ALPBC and help the cause like Our Fran, Phabulous Phil, La Tingle do every day. Unfortunately Gillard is never able to manage to go 7 days without stuffing something up and he just ends up apologising and covering for her, while running McHaggis’s AbbottAbbottAbbott lines and looking like a stooge.

H B Bear

10 Feb 13 at 12:59 pm
Footy clubs should come clean – PM
From a paragon of virtue.

stackja

10 Feb 13 at 1:02 pm
Yes, Gab. They have ‘roid rage’, but you know about the other effects of steroids.

eam
possibly she is also a commitment phobe and won’t settle with one, but prefers married ones who she knows won’t leave their wives for her, who knows?

By the way, I don’t judge TLS’s choice of married men as lovers, it’s hers to own (but she really can’t say that she’s on the side of married women after her conduct with so many married men). We all make mistakes, but usually we learn from them and don’t make the same one twice*!

Disclaimer: I have never knowingly knocked around with a married man. Ever. And I wouldn’t – it’s the rules.

*or thrice or more.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 1:03 pm
Parents will have the right to request part-time work

Well, of course, they already have the right to request it. They also have the right to request a bar of solid rhodium wrapped in a dodo-hide bag within a box of Weet-Bix on the hour every hour.
Employers, of course, still have the right—at the moment, but for how much longer?—to tell fools that they’re being foolish.

Deadman

10 Feb 13 at 1:04 pm
The fact that employers can be forced to hold a position for someone on a 6-month holiday is bad enough.

Yobbo

10 Feb 13 at 1:07 pm
Parents will have the right to request part-time work when they return from having a baby under changes to workplace relations laws, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.

stackja

10 Feb 13 at 1:07 pm
It’s getting harder and harder to run a business, especially small to medium sized businesses. I still wonder why people continue to do so. It would be interesting to see the number of new business registrations over the last 20 years and the number of businesses that closed their doors.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 1:08 pm
[To the Editor of Playboy]

December 21, 1962

Dear Sir,

I wish you hadn’t billed the debate between William Buckley and myself as a meeting between a conservative and a liberal. I don’t care if people call me a radical, a rebel, a red, a revolutionary, an outsider, an outlaw, a Bolshevik, an anarchist, a nihilist, or even a left conservative, but please don’t ever call me a liberal.

Yours,

Norman Mailer

Heh.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 1:16 pm
it’s the rules.

For people with high personal morals. No excuses.

eam

10 Feb 13 at 1:18 pm
[To the Editor of Playboy]

December 21, 1962

Dear Sir,

I wish you hadn’t billed the debate between William Buckley and myself as a meeting between a conservative and a liberal. I don’t care if people call me a radical, a rebel, a red, a revolutionary, an outsider, an outlaw, a Bolshevik, an anarchist, a nihilist, or even a left conservative, but please don’t ever call me a liberal.

Yours,

Jeez, to think that long ago leftists used to be honest.

JamesK

10 Feb 13 at 1:19 pm
Ooops!

[To the Editor of Playboy]

December 21, 1962

Dear Sir,

I wish you hadn’t billed the debate between William Buckley and myself as a meeting between a conservative and a liberal. I don’t care if people call me a radical, a rebel, a red, a revolutionary, an outsider, an outlaw, a Bolshevik, an anarchist, a nihilist, or even a left conservative, but please don’t ever call me a liberal.

Yours,

Norman Mailer

Jeez, to think that long ago leftists used to be honest.

JamesK

10 Feb 13 at 1:21 pm
Wow. The legislating of a right to ask a question really underlines the power of “we are us”.

tiny dancer

10 Feb 13 at 1:22 pm
It’s great being a black Democrat serial killer.

Slaughter people and you’ll be given a hearing…

LAPD to reopen investigation into fugitive ex-cop’s firing.

Los Angeles police say they will reopen the disciplinary proceedings that led to the firing of a former officer who’s wanted in three killings over the past several days.

Cmdr. Andrew Smith said Saturday that the department will reopen the investigation that apparently has led Christopher Dorner to seek revenge against former LAPD colleagues who he believed cost him his law enforcement career.

Dorner alleged in an online manifesto that he was wrongly fired for reporting that his training officer used excessive force.

Police Chief Charlie Beck tells KCBS-TV the department will thoroughly re-examine Dorner’s allegation to ensure the public that the LAPD is fair and transparent. He says if Dorner wants to surrender, the LAPD will “be happy to hear what he has to say.”

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 1:24 pm
Parents will have the right to request part-time work when they return from having a baby under changes to workplace relations laws, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.

They have that right already… I’m guessing that what the article means to say, is that employers will not have the right to refuse the request?

Fleeced

10 Feb 13 at 1:28 pm
Briggs is my local MP. He’s obviously being groomed for a Ministerial role at some stage, having been parachuted into an ultra safe seat.

Can’t say I’m too impressed though, after contacting him about the ETS and firearm laws.

Industrial Relations for Briggs.

Andrew

10 Feb 13 at 1:29 pm
‘And their employer will have to respond to that (request),’ she told reporters

Well, yes… at the very least, it’s bad manners not to respond. Again, I assume this means they are obliged to bend over and take it up the arse.

Fleeced

10 Feb 13 at 1:30 pm
How to fold a fitted sheet.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 1:36 pm
Jason Clare said the AFL and NRL clubs involved could now out themselves.
Will ALP now out the corrupt ALP themselves?

stackja

10 Feb 13 at 1:38 pm
No mess way to separate egg yolks.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 1:41 pm
Origami to create a CD envelope.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 1:53 pm
I guess you could say the Jindi Cheese Company has a PR problem.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-10/third-death-linked-to-cheese/4510440

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 2:11 pm
Come on.

Who folds a fitted sheet?

You just scrumple it up and chuck in the cupboard.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 2:12 pm
Hi Gab

Are you bored with the OT subject, or just cruising the net?

I love the internet for finding out stuff.

What did we do without it?

***

I used to grow roses. I had more than 52 bushes and they were beautiful. I gave the flowers away to give others pleasure and I took them to work, too. Eventually there was drought and I was looking after my place on my own so they suffered. They got borers and most died. I have two left.

Last summer I discovered frangipani seedlings under a couple of my frangipani trees. I have nurtured them and now I’ve discovered a passion for frangipanis and am growing seedlings to see what happens. Frangipanis have many genes and so you can get anything from a seedling, they are not true to the mother plant.

And as an added bonus they don’t have thorns!

kae

10 Feb 13 at 2:13 pm
Hold to fold a tee-shirt (or jumper, or buttoned business shirt or etc) really really fast.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 2:18 pm
Hold to fold a tee-shirt

See 2:12.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 2:19 pm
Gab’s releasing Gab’s How To Be A Husband Manual by the page.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 2:21 pm
But somehow husbands will not pay any attention whatsoever, as they are more interested in her gravatar, so to speak.

entropy

10 Feb 13 at 2:24 pm
A friend of mine on facebook:

How many blokes does it take to change a lightbulb?

If the TV and the fridge are still working why bother?

kae

10 Feb 13 at 2:26 pm
Hi Kae

Just trolling the ‘net. It’s also called avoidance as I have shoe polish stains on carpet that needs attending.

Roses. My dear Mother was an exceptional gardener, with roses her favourite, but she loved all her plants. And I think that was her secret to producing such prolific roses per plant. They were magnificent and she really tended to them as if they were a beloved child. Rarely did she follow the accepted gardening advice, did things her way. I, of course, thought gardening was lame and it’s only later did I realise and appreciate all the work and love she had for her garden.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 2:26 pm
Thew for thew at da G

JamesK

10 Feb 13 at 2:35 pm
Gab
I take after my mum’s mum in the garden. She loved all plants and also had a few favourites. She had cymbidum orchids which she divided when they needed dividing. I helped her one year. Collect all the fallen bark and leaves from the gumtrees in the back section of the block at Morisset, divide orchids with an axe, pack into new pot with leaves and bark previously collected. Her orchids were amazing. Some are still going at my Aunt’s place. I have one here, but I don’t think it likes where it is (I also had cyms when I first moved here, I love them, but they don’t like it too hot and sunny). My roses were amazing, people asked what special treatment I gave them, what did I spray them with etc.
Just water to blast off the aphids. I had plenty of ladybird larvae to eat the aphids and so didn’t use any poisons. I’d pick the blooms the night before and store them in the fridge. One unfortunate incident when I stored two large containers of roses in the beer fridge ended that practice when the water and the roses froze overnight. So sad! After that I put them in the inside fridge. (I wonder if the ex sabotaged the bloom storage?)

kae

10 Feb 13 at 2:35 pm
Yeah, mum had orchids too, Kae and she grew the most magnificent African Violets. I’m so pleased that mum would nag me to take pictures of her plants. I wasn’t at the time of course, seeing it more of a chore! Gawd I was an unappreciative shit back then.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 2:41 pm
ou just know Gillard’s latest play”that women have the right to ask for part time work after having a baby” as if they didn’t already, is straight out of the Obama playbook. Watch her and the scottish git work hard at splitting the Australian population up into interest groups to be flattered.

entropy

10 Feb 13 at 2:43 pm
Cymbidiums. Arrgh.

I loved visiting Nanna any time and checking out the plants in her garden.

Friends from my teen years and a bit earlier don’t believe that I am a bit of a gardener, but they didn’t know my connection with Nanna.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 2:49 pm
September 14 can’t get here soon enough.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 2:52 pm
Watch her and the scottish git work hard at splitting the Australian population up into interest groups to be flattered.

21 per cent of UK employees work for the state. Under Blair and Brown, Labor consciously sought to Sovietise the economy, to make more and more people dependent on the state either for employment or benefits, as client voters. In most areas in the north the state is in fact the largest component of the economy. This is what I loathe most about McTernan – his obvious belief that the economy is the state. In McTernan’s world, anyone who works for the state must be controlled, must be made a client; anyone who does not work for the state is suspect.

Of course, the vapid stupidity of Gillard to assume that this repulsive MO can all be transplanted seamlessly from the UK to Australian politics – and “work” as well here as it did there – is not a surprise to any sentient Australian.

That alone makes me want to dance on her political grave.

Or should I say, first among equals of many, many reasons.

I never thought I would say this, but Gillard’s concession speech will be even more enjoyable than Keating’s.

James in Melbourne

10 Feb 13 at 2:59 pm
For a change of topic, please enjoy this road test of the Tesla S.
I happen to think that tesla is the company most likely to succeed with an electric car,but this test drive shows how impractical electric cars are in the real world, even using the very latest ethnology.

The car is a technological wonder, with luminous paint on aluminum bodywork, a spacious and ultrahip cabin, a 17-inch touch screen to control functions from suspension height to the Google-driven navigation system. Feeding the 416 horsepower motor of the top-of-the-line Model S Performance edition is a half-ton lithium-ion battery pack slung beneath the cockpit; that combination is capable of flinging this $101,000 luxury car through the quarter mile as quickly as vaunted sport sedans like the Cadillac CTS-V.

The Model S has won multiple car-of-the-year awards and is, many reviews would have you believe, the coolest car on the planet.

What fun, no? Well, no.

it was all downhill from there. And the hill is very steep.

entropy

10 Feb 13 at 3:24 pm
Much orchestrated fanfare for Holden’s new Commodore.

Still an ugly piece of shit.

Anyone with sense would rather import a Benz, sans all the taxes.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 3:29 pm
This new ” non-workers right ” is just a way to get Workchoices into parliamentary debate and feed the compliant meeja.
The only thing transparent about the alp is their tactics.

jumpnmcar

10 Feb 13 at 3:30 pm
FMD C.L. that “new” VF Commodore is an ugly POS.

Here is a non piece of shit car

http://www.caradvice.com.au/207892/mercedes-benz-cla-class-unveiled/

Remember, in the US it will retail for a touch under 30k, and that we are above parity with the USD.

Here it will cost at least 50k. We should get it for around 25k AUD.

Blame taxes, tariffs, ADRs, import rules and the lucrative sinecure that the heavily unionised and bludging GMH and Ford Australia cop for churning out ugly cars we don’t want to buy.

.

10 Feb 13 at 3:40 pm
You know, I used to be a bit critical of Bishop but Bolt is right. She has come along mightily these past several months. In that interview posted by Bolt re Slushgate (Video), she is is brilliant.

Note that the host CONTINUALLY tries to argue on behalf of the Dear Leader that the two AWU crooks spoke legally on behalf of the union. Note Bishop smiling repeatedly because she realises that he’s trying to protect Gillard.

Apparently, the Bish will return to the Gillard/Wilson criminal matter this week.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 3:41 pm
Tony Burke is right to say he will not be sharing information in future with the NSW government:

Mr Burke says will no longer send confidential information to the NSW Government.

“Because they contain commercially sensitive information, no state government up until today has ever breached that confidence,” he said.

“This is probably the last time I’ll be able to responsibly share any of that information with [New South Wales], but that’s a call they’ve made.”

Source, ABC news online

Very likely it is the last time. The call that has been made is by the electorate, Tony. Your views on anything at all will be irrelevant before the end of the year.

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

johanna

10 Feb 13 at 3:44 pm
Blame taxes, tariffs, ADRs, import rules and the lucrative sinecure that the heavily unionised and bludging GMH and Ford Australia cop for churning out ugly cars we don’t want to buy.

Exactly.

Just quit already, fellas. We don’t want your crappy cars.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 3:45 pm
For a change of topic, please enjoy this road test of the Tesla S.

I happen to think that tesla is the company most likely to succeed with an electric car,but this test drive shows how impractical electric cars are in the real world, even using the very latest ethnology.

The car is a technological wonder, with luminous paint on aluminum bodywork, a spacious and ultrahip cabin, a 17-inch touch screen to control functions from suspension height to the Google-driven navigation system. Feeding the 416 horsepower motor of the top-of-the-line Model S Performance edition is a half-ton lithium-ion battery pack slung beneath the cockpit; that combination is capable of flinging this $101,000 luxury car through the quarter mile as quickly as vaunted sport sedans like the Cadillac CTS-V.
The Model S has won multiple car-of-the-year awards and is, many reviews would have you believe, the coolest car on the planet.

What fun, no? Well, no.

it was all downhill from there. And the hill is very steep.

H/T Entropy

from the article linked:

I noticed that the estimated range was falling faster than miles were accumulating. At 68 miles since recharging, the range had dropped by 85 miles, and a little mental math told me that reaching Milford would be a stretch.

I have noticed the same thing with the Toyota Prius – the distance left to travel can drop very rapidly when relying exclusively on the battery. Luckily these cars have an internal combustion engine to save them.

Will

10 Feb 13 at 3:48 pm
I recently purchased a new car (well, used but new to me). No way I’m going to buy an Aussie made car, not only because they are mostly under par in comparison to the imports, but also because the “local” manufacturers have the begging bowls out so much. Screw those guys.

I bought a VW Passat CC instead and it’s terrific. Much better looking on the road than any Aussie car either.

tbh

10 Feb 13 at 4:09 pm
the Bish will return to the Gillard/Wilson criminal matter this week.

How delish.

When it comes to a battle of the lawyers, vuvuzela the ambo chaser, gets beaten like a red haired stepchild by Bishop

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 4:14 pm
RE: My previous info regarding switching from roses to frangipani – “no thorns”.

I’ve gone all PC!

kae

10 Feb 13 at 4:17 pm
kae
Planting and nurturing things that produce food are my hobby.
Roses and frangipanis take up too much valuable real-estate for mine.
Tomatoes and capsicum make a more practical gift IMHO.

jumpnmcar

10 Feb 13 at 4:35 pm
Wher is all the gene mucking the lunatic greenies whine about?
Surely the can make tomato plants that have blooms that look and smell like roses?
Or are the stupid greenies bullshitting again?

WhaleHunt Fun

10 Feb 13 at 4:41 pm
JUmp
LOL
I’d love to grow food, but I don’t like tomatoes and capsicum much.

I do grow mangoes, but only had 11, until old horse knocked one off the tree. I don’t eat them, I give them away.

I have two macadamia nut trees which have been resting this year, one is prolific in a good year. I have to spray them to stop the borers, but they never get sprayed ‘cos I forget.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 4:42 pm
AFL deputy chief executive Gillon McLachlan addressed the media in Melbourne on Sunday and said the Australian Crime Commission report only identified two specific cases where WADA prohibited performance enhancing drugs may have been used in the AFL.
McLachlan said the AFL was not aware of any specific instances of suspected match fixing in AFL competition.

So why all the fuss? Ah! Gillard needs a distraction.

stackja

10 Feb 13 at 4:45 pm
CL:

Apparently, the Bish will return to the Gillard/Wilson criminal matter this week.

Oh, superb. I thought Bishop was a nonentity (she had a rep in Canberra for being lazy), but having seen her perform I have re-assessed that, and the new information has changed my mind.

I think she was bored: she was not being utilised to her full potential and that bored her.

But Abbott gave her this matter and she has been calmly, coolly analytical, she’s developed her brief and then taken to the Lying Slapper with a meat-axe while not getting a single drop of the flying gore on herself.

Compare and contrast to that wek-kneed buffoon Turnbull. he can’t even land a punch on that barking made cretin Conroy over the entire NBN disaster.

Meanwhile, Bishop’s beating the Lying Slapper like a 70 year old sharia imam beating his 9 year old wife for crying after he raped her the first time.*

*case a few years back in pakistan. IIRC she got 15 years prison for running away from him.

Mk50 of Brisbane

10 Feb 13 at 4:48 pm
kae, the child bride and I are also into frangapannys. There’s some great colours out there. I’ll let you know when ours are big enough to rip the odd branch off.

Winston Smith

10 Feb 13 at 4:49 pm
I too thought Bishop to be underwhelming as a parliamentarian (she used to be my local member), but this most recent round of question time has shown her to have a lot more about than many realised (me included, obviously).

On the other side of the fence, people who I thought were good operators in the ALP have shown themselves to be fairly rubbish.

tbh

10 Feb 13 at 4:56 pm
I’ve always maintained that holden (and ford locally) continue to churn out some of the ugliest vehicles in human history.

However, holden does cater (very well) to a particular (thankfully small) demographic – braindead yobs (BIRM).

That these subsidy dependent sheltered workshops haven’t been allowed to collapse is a damning indictment of all the unctuous, money wasting dirtbag politicians to have cursed this country with their existence.

Enough. I’m still trying to get the image of that frigging commodore out out my head…

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 4:56 pm
kae

My old dad have got about 9 different types of mango trees and around 6 types of avocados.
Plenty of different stuff as he has lots of space.
Even those black grape looking things that grow on the trunk of the tree, taste like lychees.
Don’t know what they’re called, make good jam though.

jumpnmcar

10 Feb 13 at 5:07 pm
Thank you for the fitted sheet link Gab. I had given up on defeating these bastards but this gives me fresh hope!
Re the gardening thing – orchids are my love. Before the drought I had a really lovely collection, lots of different types. My work situation will be changing in a couple of months so I will have time to get back into it again. Can’t wait.

Tracey

10 Feb 13 at 5:10 pm
Gooooaaaalllll!!!!

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 5:13 pm
The sad thing is that I am in the large car market (well, in 2015 anyway, when an replacement is due). But the only thing that is Australian made to slightly interest me is the Territory, a poor man’s XC90. And that wont make it past 2015.

entropy

10 Feb 13 at 5:13 pm
I am the poor man, by the way

entropy

10 Feb 13 at 5:15 pm
My transport is low cost.

stackja

10 Feb 13 at 5:21 pm
My transport is low cost.

And endless fun for all da family – just ask that ALPBC whinger!

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 5:28 pm
That‘s not a spice rack. This is a spice rack.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 5:31 pm
the child bride and I are also into frangapannys.

Winston, I’m sure you know what a franga is, and it is not related to the lovely Frangipani, a delightful tree, whatever relationship it might have to a bride of any age.

blogstrop

10 Feb 13 at 5:47 pm
Gab – a warning for that first website would have been appreciated!

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 5:50 pm
My travel costs are even lower.

Deadman

10 Feb 13 at 5:56 pm
The role of the next Coalition speaker is not to bring fairness or “decency” to the House. His or her role will be to ruthlessly shut down the ALP on a daily basis.

Absolutely. Let me be speaker. I’ll have 90% of those arseholes banned every freaking day for even drawing breath.

Jc

10 Feb 13 at 5:58 pm
There would also be new speaker jargon too.

” Get your arse outta here, you areshole. You’re banned for the rest of the parliamentary sitting”.

Jc

10 Feb 13 at 6:01 pm
On car pricing it is not only the tax but the companies that also having us on.

In the USA a Nissan GTR (I know, I know) is $96,820, and a 991 Porches $84,300. Here the GTR is $172,00 and a base 911 $229,900.

We are being ripped off.

Woolfe

10 Feb 13 at 6:03 pm
Who folds a fitted sheet?

CL a few years ago when I was doing housecleaning* the lady of the house had her fitted sheets folded beautifully. She showed me how, and while I remember, I don’t do it too often.

Easier to “fold” them the way you suggested.

*I was okay, but a long way from perfect and fortunately got a fulltime job so I didn’t do it for too many months lol.

nilk

10 Feb 13 at 6:11 pm
Got it – 涙と残念だ。(Tears and Shame) the tripple distilled tipple for the discerning political pundit who has just been booted by the electorate.

Marketing

*Tears and Shame is the prefered spirit of ex-alp ministers*

*you may be a loser – but at least you can get blotto and hump each other*

Fabulous Carpe – just back and on catch-up– I love it you have the boiler-plate and advert done, that was so quick. Production might be a little slow ’cause these uckerfays will not start shedding until the poll numbers are into the teens. But cross that bridge when you come to it — actually bottled nanny-goat’s piss would fill the bill in any event.

May I put in a forward order for 10 bottles one for each of my closest friends and fellow travellers.

Cheers.

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 6:11 pm
Does anyone need to know how to fold a nappie (aka diaper)?

(no didnt think so – must admit I used a few of these for about 3 weeks till I discovered they leaked badly).
Must admit – never folded it this way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-cuAfnBwMU

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 6:15 pm
Gab

That’s a(n) (h)erb rack. Not a spice rack.

.

10 Feb 13 at 6:26 pm
We are being ripped off.

Remember, JC – one of the first actions of these loathsome, lobotomised laybore a*seholes was to increase da looxury car tax.

The wombat whisperer’s ‘subsequent’ review of da tax system specifically recommended abolishing it.

The goose even put out a statement post review stating that it wasn’t going to happen.

Because, rich people and stuff. And Shut Up.

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 6:30 pm
Goooaaalll!!!

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 6:33 pm
“Gooooaaaalllll!!!!”

Rabz gets to announce that once in a day and a half. Gees ain’t soccer exciting???

Mick Gold Coast QLD

10 Feb 13 at 6:40 pm
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/more-sport/james-magnussens-olympic-meltdown/story-fnducgor-1226574560520

“It felt like no one really knew what I had been through.” Spare us.

Someone really needs to sit some of our modern day adulated, wrapped-in-AIS-cotton wool, highly paid and sponsored athletes and remind them that through the ages kids their age and younger have fought in wars, been maimed and traumatised for life and gone on with their lives with a hell of a lot less chest-beating and whining than the likes of this dickhead.

Tracey

10 Feb 13 at 6:40 pm
Ooops – he’s dunitagen.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

10 Feb 13 at 6:40 pm
Your team is going down, Mickey!

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 6:42 pm
Your team is going down, Mickey!

Being soccer players, that wouldn’t surprise….

jumpnmcar

10 Feb 13 at 6:45 pm
No mess way to separate egg yolks.

That’s no fun I do it like Nigella with my hands, daren’t tell you what it feels like but it feels good, getting so close to naycha ‘n all.

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 6:46 pm
That’s a(n) (h)erb rack. Not a spice rack.

Yes it is. You must be a blast at parties correcting everyone on technicality.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 6:46 pm
The Hyundai A League live feed of the game gives us this pearler:

79″: “Yellow card to Sydney FC’s Joel Chianese”

Mick Gold Coast QLD

10 Feb 13 at 6:46 pm
Gees ain’t ~~soccer~~ football exciting???

Just enjoying the match fixing and performance enhancing drug taking.

FFS, Sydney FC need a good dose of performance enhancing drugs – err, or a handy, mysterious fixed result!

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 6:47 pm
…kids their age and younger have fought in wars, been maimed and traumatised for life and gone on with their lives with a hell of a lot less chest-beating and whining than the likes of this dickhead.

Yep. Magnussen is a pampered sook.

jupes

10 Feb 13 at 6:49 pm
hubby and I watching current tv news
“I’d be happy to eat some of the horses I’ve bet on”
says he…….

hzhousewife

10 Feb 13 at 6:50 pm
Nonetheless Rabz’ Sydney FC is winning and that makes him happy and a happy Rabz is a Happy Catallaxy.

One intones Allah the Wogballer to not create a draw at the death (it’s been going 82 minutes – how much time does a soccer match get?).

Mick Gold Coast QLD

10 Feb 13 at 6:50 pm
BREAKING: According to Melbourne sports station SEN, Stephen Dank, the sports scientist sacked by the Essendon Football Club has issued proceedings through Cambridge Law for $10 million damages against “the media” — respondents not specified — for defamation. Dank on Friday agreed to appear on Monday night’s 7.30 program on ABC TV in an attempt to clear his name of allegations about high performance supplements.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 6:52 pm
how much time does a soccer match get?

94 minutes in this case. Good thing I cut my fingernails this morning!

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 6:55 pm
Yeeeessssss!!!!!

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 6:58 pm
Scandalous! Julie Bishop has been feeding alcohol to the Milky Bar Kid:

LABOR MP Kevin Rudd has talents and experience that could land him a diplomatic appointment under a coalition government, deputy opposition leader Julie Bishop says.

Ms Bishop says if she were to become foreign minister, Mr Rudd would be considered for any role with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

“If Kevin wants to apply for a job I’ll judge it against the others who are applying for that same position,” she told Sky News on Sunday.

“But certainly he has talents and ability and experience in foreign policy that shouldn’t be wasted and I think that former prime ministers usually have a contribution to make.

“But I’ll certainly be looking for a range of people to fill our posts overseas because they are after all, Australia’s voice, ambassadors to the world.”

Ms Bishop revealed on Sunday she and Mr Rudd had forged a friendship after travelling overseas together as parliamentary colleagues.

“Over a glass of wine together, we have shared some thoughts,” she said.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 7:01 pm
Winston

I have some different ones, hoping to strike some more from a friend – I’m not having much success with the cuttings she gave me, I think the mix was wrong. I’ve actually managed to strike two cuttings in peat in sandwich bags! My trees are certainly big enough for me to take cuttings. You should email me and I’ll show you what I have.

Google Coral Coast Frangipanis.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 7:01 pm
“Stephen Dank, the sports scientist sacked by the Essendon Football Club has issued proceedings through Cambridge Law for $10 million damages … for defamation.”

Good on him, I hope he makes a million. One hopes he can join Comrade Kate Lundy in the action.

Since the big, breathless, astonished announcement bagging everyone in top end sport she’s come up with nothing and no-one to substantiate it.

This whole thing is so wrong, all done for the honorable purpose of shielding a few Labor Lords from a week or two of adverse headlines.

Sports luminaries such as Wayne Bennett and Phil Gould call it a con job and that’s good enough for me.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

10 Feb 13 at 7:03 pm
mAlice

Folding a nappy? Yes. I never had kids, either.

And folding the nappy depends on the size of the kid, too.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 7:08 pm
Do you follow the Titans Mick? I have a soft spot for them stemming mainly from my love of Carty in his playing days.

Tracey

10 Feb 13 at 7:15 pm
But I’ll certainly be looking for a range of people to fill our posts overseas because they are after all, Australia’s voice, ambassadors to the world.”

Maybe they can make him Ambassador to the Faroe Islands, I’m sure he’ll just love wintering there.

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 7:34 pm
nah, India

entropy

10 Feb 13 at 7:37 pm
“Stephen Dank, the sports scientist sacked by the Essendon Football Club has issued proceedings through Cambridge Law for $10 million damages … for defamation.”

Wonderful, wonderful good for him. This is a political stunt by Turnip McHaggis Gillard’s imported media guru. Nice one well done! Own goal again.

Wayne Bennett and Phil Gould have called it for what it is, a con to take the heat off the melting mountain of manure that’s dribbling down the green seats on the ‘government’ side of the house.

They have to call in the Bleach Brigade when this lot is tossed out the filth is of Augean Stables proportions.

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 7:39 pm
This is a political stunt by Turnip McHaggis Gillard’s imported media guru.

Yes it is. Let’s hope that sycophants like Demitriou are starting to realise what their support of the worst government in Australia’s history is not being reciprocated.

jupes

10 Feb 13 at 7:42 pm
nah, India

Problem with Rudd is he’ll think he’s back in the British Raj, and cast himself in the role of Tanjit Singh, Maharajah of the Punjab.

I can just see that dough-faced creep swanning around in ceremonial dress and a be-jewelled turban. Errgghhh shudder.

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 7:45 pm
um that is Ranjit Singh

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 7:45 pm
Yeah, while that would be amusing in itself, you must also remember Rudd is a sinophile, so why not stick him in India. You know it makes sense.

Entropy

10 Feb 13 at 7:56 pm
For its simple and cutting accuracy, I just love this quote from Vaclav Klaus, which Qudrant Online is using as the signature for its Doomed Planet series, now looking at the role of Melbourne Uni climate ecofascist David Karoly and others in the tricks being used in attempting to subjugate Australia to the dictatorship of the junk science elite:

“Today’s debate about global warming is essentially a debate about freedom. The environmentalists would like to mastermind each and every possible (and impossible) aspect of our lives.”

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 8:02 pm
May I put in a forward order for 10 bottles one for each of my closest friends and fellow travellers.

Order taken Tintarella, i shall try to source a nice commorative stein for you.

I think a celebratory crest on the stein for the alp is appropriate. A chicken rampant on a sable background seem suitable. The motto will be;

あなたはばかだ juliar no Baka (Juliar you idiot)

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 8:06 pm
“We’ve given the names of the clubs to both the NRL and the AFL. The NRL and the AFL have asked for permission to tell the clubs that are affected by the investigation,” Mr Clare told ABC TV’s Insiders on Sunday morning.

“The crime commission agrees and we’re taking action to allow both the NRL and the AFL to tell the clubs that are involved in this investigation.

“Then it’ll be up to the clubs to put their hand up and say ‘Yes, we are one of the clubs affected by this investigation’,” he said.

Let’s hope the clubs stick their hand up and tell Jason Clare to fuck off.

Admit they’re under investigation FFS? Hey dickhead, if you have an accusation, put it.

Now where have I heard that before?

jupes

10 Feb 13 at 8:10 pm
No, send the bastard to Peking, stench and airborne krud capital of the world.

Mk50 of Brisbane

10 Feb 13 at 8:11 pm
If you want to see how the ABC is really a left wing organisation, look at this attack on the WA opposition leader(ALP), from the left, then look at the ALP sycophant they dredged up to provide commentary. Absolutely shameless. Of course the amusing thing is how hard the WA ALP are trying to distance themselves from Gillard and the greens that they say they are *gasp* against TEH CARBIN TUX.

WA Greens slam McGowan’s tax stance

The WA Greens have labelled the Opposition Leader Mark McGowan a dinosaur after he revealed he does not support the Federal Government’s Carbon Tax.

The Premier Colin Barnett had been calling on Mr McGowan to declare whether he supported the tax or not but the Labor leader refused to be drawn saying it was a federal issue.

However yesterday Mr McGowan finally revealed he does not support the tax.

Greens MP Robin Chapple says that is disappointing.

“We as the state of Western Australia are the largest emitters per capita anywhere in the world of CO2,” he said.

“We’ve got to do something about it. This state government has refused to do anything about it and it appears that now the Labor party is joining the ranks of the ostriches and burying their heads in sand.”

Mr Chapple says the Opposition Leader is ‘hiding from reality’.

“We’ve already got one dinosaur in the state with Colin Barnett, now we’ve got two,” he said.

“Everybody in the international arena is now saying that the Gillard government got it right with the carbon tax so for Mark McGowan to actually say that he doesn’t support a carbon tax or that it’s not a state issue is literally hiding from reality.”

Political analyst Peter Kennedy says Mark McGowan has timed his announcement well.

“It’s getting closer to the election. Mr McGowan decided not to use all his powder months ago and he’s decided to defer some of the decision to closer to the poll and this decision about the Carbon Tax is one of them,” he said.

“I think it’ll enhance his position with the WA public because Mr Barnett’s tried to say that WA Labor would dance to Federal Labor’s tune and this is an indication from Mr McGowan that that’s not the case.

“That WA Labor’s going to make decisions that it believes are in the best interest of Western Australians.”

Entropy

10 Feb 13 at 8:12 pm
Oh, and do not let him return for the duration of his ambassadorship

Mk50 of Brisbane

10 Feb 13 at 8:12 pm
Let’s hope the clubs stick their hand up and tell Jason Clare to fuck off.

I sincerely hope they do. I see Wayne Bennet has already come out and said put up or shut up. Girlyman Demetriou will be outraged for the AFL any second now…any second…any ~~second~~ minute now..any….. nah.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 8:15 pm
I’ve campaigned before for Abbott to swipe this famous line on election night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLyX4DbE6Hc

Me – I want to hear Abbott rip off some of the famous Labor speech quotes. “Sweetest victory of all”, for example. Work the crowd with half a dozen of Labor’s most cherished phrases – “Light on the Hill” and so forth. Make it very clear they are pissing on their grave.

Maybe after Gillard’s concession speech, Abbott can come on to the strains of The Herd’s “The King is Dead”… I know I played that on repeat while downing a bottle of wine and giggling uncontrollably the night Rudd got rolled – but it will be even more fun when the entire cluster-fuck is put down.

Tim

10 Feb 13 at 8:17 pm
Kae

After three weeks I never folded a nappy (despite nappy covers – couldnt get the damn things not to leak). Yes confess went entirely disposable after that (oh the shame of it all).
Recall handing the new baby to Great Aunyt for a cuddle one day early on when I quickly realised what had been left behind in my lap after I lifted baby to hand over for the cuddle. Said “oops not a good time Aunty Jan…. quickly retracted baby and self to another room to clean up!”. Thoughjt to myself “despite best intentions really dont like these cloth nappies – an extraordinary amount of work.” Should I feel guilty now. Never felt guilty until I was changing baby in back seat of a car outside a pub in Nimbin and some greenie yelled out a comment about my disposables polluting the environment. We didnt stay long, had only gone for a look and there were signs in all the shops “no white powder”.
Yes there was a war going on in Nimbin. Apparently home grown dope and hash was OK in cafes and everywhere judging by the smells wafting round town, but they were at that time (20 years ago) objecting to the new white powder hippies that had moved into the town and were causing trouble. They brought it all on themselves I say.

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 8:17 pm
But MK, the tool would want to go to Beijing. That is the last place Bishop should send him. The sinophile would sell us out.

Entropy

10 Feb 13 at 8:17 pm
Greens MP Robin Chapple says that is disappointing.

“We as the state of Western Australia are the largest emitters per capita anywhere in the world of CO2,” he said.

After September 14 i will have flooded the market making my special brew from their tears.

So many tears to come, so little time.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 8:18 pm
Kae – my name is Aliice not mAlice.

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 8:20 pm
Psst
Probably a good thing I didn’t have a child.
Pierced friend’s child with nappy pin (nearly).

Shhhh.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 8:29 pm
“Then it’ll be up to the clubs to put their hand up and say ‘Yes, we are one of the clubs affected by this investigation’,” he said.

What a retard. What a hypocrite. I hope he gets belted on election night as well.

Tiny Dancer

10 Feb 13 at 8:36 pm
This is what I’ll be putting on repeat when this joke of a Commonwealth Government is laid waste to in the upcoming Federal election.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjiOtouyBOg

.

10 Feb 13 at 8:48 pm
Did the same to my own Kae – newbie error – didnt place finger between baby tummy and safety pin going through three layers of the origami folded cloth nappie.
You only do it once. IT doesnt happen with (shock horror) disposables. They have sticky sides.

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 9:04 pm
No, no, no, Dot. That’s a pop song. we need a symphony. I hope Uncle Rabz will allow me to comandeer his hi-fi system on election night, right after I’ve been down to the Canberra tally room to scream at Gillard and Swan and the rest of the communist scum to get the fuck out of my government and to make sure they empty their pockets for the guards in the remand cells.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 9:04 pm
Actually, no. This is better.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 9:08 pm
Tom

No this version is better.
IF you go looking for good songs get the ones with the most hits…same song, sound better or real film footage rather than flat pics..there might be a higher rater – I didnt look too long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPaqi7Dpdg&list=PL4DE939D6BF6C5E8E

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 9:13 pm
What the heck, I’ll add mine to the Election Night line-up.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 9:14 pm
I think a celebratory crest on the stein for the alp is appropriate. A chicken rampant on a sable background seem suitable. The motto will be;

あなたはばかだ juliar no Baka (Juliar you idiot)

Thanks Carpe, my my, you are certainly advanced in this enterprise -

I was thinking this might be the perfect image to go with the motto

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 9:18 pm
Anyway

I have a great toon for the girrrls…love the boots.
Bring them back (and the legs… sigh…so sad, they dont come back!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 9:20 pm
Kae, most parents manage to accidentally stick the pin in during the early days, so don’t beat yourself up. As Alice said, you only do it once.

I tried cloth nappies for 5 months, but after excessive nappy rash I moved to disposables for nights, and after about three days of that routine turfed out the cloth nappies altogether. I’ll take disposables any day, and besides you can use dirty disposables as mulch if you’re right into recycling.

I saw a segment on it on some gardening show ages ago. Was most impressed.

nilk

10 Feb 13 at 9:26 pm
I actually don’t mind listening to the Herd, despite them being a bunch of leftie fucktards. But I’d pay good money to see them forced to eat this.

The King is Dead

Tim

10 Feb 13 at 9:26 pm
I hope Rabz is working on an election night party soundtrack. I have total confidence he will acquit himself like a true patriot when he’s running through central Canberra on election night with Stephen Conroy’s underpants on his head.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 9:31 pm
I tried cloth nappies for 5 months

uuum – good for you, how did bubs like them?

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:42 pm
You are a good woman nilk. You lasted longer with the cloths than me and I didnt recycle the dispoables
‘

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 9:43 pm
I hope Rabz is working on an election night party soundtrack

I think a mix of ZZ Top and ACDC would celebrate the night just nicely.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:44 pm
Carpe – I reckon they are more prone to nappy rash in cloths like Nik says even the softest materials rub and stay wet whereas the dispoables draw it away from the skin.

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 9:44 pm
I used cloth nappies always. Absolute conomic sense and the disposables what happens to them, in a landfill for hundreds of years?

I wonder what Greenie mums do, whether they secretly use disposables …

candy

10 Feb 13 at 9:44 pm
Mums crying poor me can’t make ends meet, times are tough, but buying disposables is just ridiculous.

candy

10 Feb 13 at 9:49 pm
TA acceptance speech music should be;

1. Gimme all your lovin – ZZ Top
2. Sharp Dressed Man – ZZ Top
3. Shoot to Kill – ACDC
4. Thunderstruck – ACDC

to end the night and give the PS fair warning;

5. Heatseeker – ACDC
6. Fiend – Coal Chamber

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:49 pm
I have total confidence he will acquit himself like a true patriot when he’s running through central Canberra on election night with Stephen Conroy’s underpants on his head.

Sacre Bleu!

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 9:49 pm
Gawdalmighty. The Cat is dripping with estrogen this evening.

http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Firing_M1_Abrams_tank,_Marine_Corps_Base_Camp_Pendleton.JPG

Balance restored.

Pedro the Ignorant

10 Feb 13 at 9:51 pm
Sacre ~~Bleu!~~ Rouge!

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:51 pm
” “We as the state of Western Australia are the largest emitters per capita anywhere in the world of CO2,” Ms GreenLoon said.”

It’s not possible, there are bugger all people there!

2.5 million people is about the same as Brisbane, three quarters of ‘em live in Perth, where there’s stuff all industry, and there are a couple of towns about the size of Bathurst.

How can half a million people living in the mulga create much CO2? Do they breathe more heavily in the hotter parts of the State?

Mick Gold Coast QLD

10 Feb 13 at 9:52 pm
For Labor it will be Sacre Bleeehhhh

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 9:53 pm
I reckon they are more prone to nappy rash in cloths

Not so sure ther Alice, my 2 eldest were in cloth nappies, and the youngest was in disposables.

Nothing untoward with either, but disposables were a godsend for Lady Jugs getting extra sleep.

Carpe Jugulum

10 Feb 13 at 9:55 pm
Candy

You make me feel guilty…over the disposables but I just got so sick of that nappy bucket that was never ending full…and well you know how hard it is to get the stains out. Bad mother here -

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 9:55 pm
Arrivederic gatti

Gotta check on the big boy. Buona notte, I hope.

Tintarella di Luna

10 Feb 13 at 9:55 pm
I thought Al Gore had a lock on greatest per capita emitter of CO2

Rousie

10 Feb 13 at 9:57 pm
Buona notte Tinta

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 9:58 pm
Well, tuesday evening after next I’ll be watching Geert Wilders. The media saturation has been remarkable.

I blinked, and I missed it lol.

No matter, got my ticket booked. How many Cats going to attend?

(I’ve never read the commenting guidelines but I try to keep things moderate. Does this constitute advertising?)

nilk

10 Feb 13 at 10:08 pm
I don’t mind what song TA uses on election night as long as it ends in a chorus of ‘For she’s a jolly good Slapper’.

I’d also look at fitting Mick Ditka in somewhere with the line ‘Worst government ever. Period’

Rousie

10 Feb 13 at 10:08 pm
Pedro, it’s time for us to look again at The Anatomy of an Abrams Tank. Probably the most important invention of the past 50 years in disarming the enemies of civilisation.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 10:10 pm
Gawdalmighty. The Cat is dripping with estrogen this evening.

Can I suggest it. Can I suggest a ban on females for at least one day a week? You know it’s the right thing to do.

Jc

10 Feb 13 at 10:12 pm
Australia has about 22.8 million people.

WA has about 2.4 million people. (about 10% of Oz)

The WA land area is about 2.6 million square kilometres (about 33% of Oz), and this cretin Ms GreenLoon (H/T Mick) is claiming world record pollution in WA?

These clowns live in an alternate universe.

The most brilliant view of the night sky I have ever seen has been in WA’s Kimberley region. Pollution? Hohohoho.

Pedro the Ignorant

10 Feb 13 at 10:12 pm
Nope.

Rabz, here is the song to play when the Lying Slapper gets her enormous jubbling arse booted out of the Lodge.

Not a huge fan of Dark Throne, but 2:10 to 2:55, while lyrically simple, has heartfelt.

This song is probably played endlessly by every man who ever boinked the Lying Slapper.

Do not play either song at work, folks.

Mk50 of Brisbane

10 Feb 13 at 10:15 pm
I used cloth nappies always. Absolute conomic sense and the disposables what happens to them, in a landfill for hundreds of years?

Candy, seriously, who cares? It’s not as though anyone will see them.

I once recall reading a piece in the Economist. I think it was around 13 odd years ago.

If we joined together all the landfills from end to end the world would have a ditch measuring 30 miles long, 3 miles wide and 1 mile deep.

Get back to me when it significantly bigger.

Jc

10 Feb 13 at 10:16 pm
I’ve started compiling songs for a feral election night soundtrack.

It will be blasted on the evening.

Rabz

10 Feb 13 at 10:18 pm
Can I suggest a ban on females

yes, you can suggest it by all means. Ain’t never gonna happen though, creased jeans boy.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 10:21 pm
It wouldn’t be a ban as such , Gab; just a free day for the gals here to clear up the odds and ends of the housework and take take of their men folk.

Jc

10 Feb 13 at 10:25 pm
RAbz

How about “Let’s stick together” (bryan ferry) for a TA background acceptance speech?

candy

10 Feb 13 at 10:25 pm
JC -

“Can I suggest a ban on females?”

Wait till I dob you on to wifey. You would be in the doghouse for that comment.

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 10:25 pm
JC, re the landfills, and the problems with disposable nappies. When the watermelons succeed in their population zero plan it won’t matter. The survivors will ~~envy the dead~~[oops, too much War of the Worlds] will be able to throw away as much as they want.

nilk

10 Feb 13 at 10:27 pm
Well Gab could ask Sinc for a female only thread with that avatar.. “what Lola wants etc..”

Aliice

10 Feb 13 at 10:27 pm
Another suggestion for Election Night, directed at gillard specifically.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 10:28 pm
oh, and it’s NSFW.

Gab

10 Feb 13 at 10:28 pm
Why?

Ringo Starr arrives in Brisbane.

C.L.

10 Feb 13 at 10:28 pm
Shit this technology is moving quickly.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/21083919/robot-helicopters-help-out-in-war-zones#axzz2KJXn1XRL

Jc

10 Feb 13 at 10:33 pm
Great fan of landfills! They are our gift to archaeologists five thousand years in the future.

Look at Paolo Matthiae’s brilliant discovery, excavation and breathtaking identification of Ebla. Sure, sure, nice sexy temples, palaces yadda yadda… but we learned out how the people of Ebla lived and died through that most valuable of archaeological finds – their rubbish dump.

Mk50 of Brisbane

10 Feb 13 at 10:35 pm
Candy
Did you work when you had your babies? I doubt they’re that economical these days, cloth ones I mean.

My friends found that cloth nappies caused rashes and switched aroun between cloth and disposable. This was in the 70s.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 10:39 pm
Yes I did Kae full time and carted the nappy bucket around.
This is boring but old fashioned vaseline prevents nappy rash.

candy

10 Feb 13 at 10:43 pm
Yeah, they’ll dig up our recent rubbish dumps, MK50, and say “Sheesh, these people went backward… “.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 10:45 pm
Candy
Nothing worked for this kid’s nappy rash.

No need to be a martyr these days.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 10:46 pm
My 3 babies all wore cloth nappies. It was the plastic pilchers that caused the nappy rash. I didn’t use plastics till they were over 1 yo.

Aliice, thanks for that ‘clip’ of folding the nappy. It’s a fold for boys and I had been trying to remember how to do it in case the grandson’s parents ever decide to put him in the nappies they told me they would use when I offered to buy them.

eam

10 Feb 13 at 10:56 pm
“Pedro, it’s time for us to look again at The Anatomy of an Abrams Tank.”

Do they come with disposables or the safety pinned cotton nappies?

Mick Gold Coast QLD

10 Feb 13 at 11:02 pm
we last two week son cloth nappies. Never looked back.

WA is a large per capita CO2 emitter, as it is a highly productive state extracting all those lovely ores for the rest of the world to use.

Even though the good people of WA actually don’t use that ore themselves, in the eyes of the greens, our new, self appointed high priests, they are still the guilty sinners that caused all those emissions exacting them.

entropy

10 Feb 13 at 11:09 pm
Can I suggest a ban on females for at least one day a week? You know it’s the right thing to do.

Definitely has merit and should be supported by the females. An essential men’s retreat to exorcise overbearing female influence with an alternating female retreat to reassess the worth of males after the feminist jihad. Mainly to achieve a mass lefty head explosion at the ABC when it is announced by the Doomlord.

Tom

10 Feb 13 at 11:09 pm
Do they come with disposables or the safety pinned cotton nappies?

Well it makes a change from all the talk about cars and guns.

eam

10 Feb 13 at 11:11 pm
Happy to report that the Kulkyne Pyramid yabby trap is so good that you’d swear it was invented by a yabby. Only comes in green and black though. Have recommended a pastel range to Mr Kulkyne. And to Ms Lundy that it be made an Olympic sport.

Pickles

10 Feb 13 at 11:16 pm
I wonder where hairshirt hamilton and flannery were?

Climate Authority boffins dine out on $1700 dinner

entropy

10 Feb 13 at 11:19 pm
entropy

Don’t be silly, Ent. They wouldn’t have had to pay!

kae

10 Feb 13 at 11:27 pm
quite so, but if you read the article, those two august personages were absent from the bonding session.

entropy

10 Feb 13 at 11:32 pm
Just came back and looked at it, Ent.

We paid. Lucky us!

And there’s those stupid adverts on TV for Gonski, crying out for more money for schools.

Aiiieeee!

kae

10 Feb 13 at 11:41 pm
I’m surprised that freeloading Flannery wasn’t there.

kae

10 Feb 13 at 11:42 pm
The Tele informs us that Plod’s on the job, keeping western Sydney safe from the criminals …

“Detectives visited the Blacktown Markets on Cricketers Arms Road on Sunday morning and will allege they were offered cigarettes by the woman operating the stall.

They raided the stall and the woman’s car, allegedly finding 2799 packets of cigarettes of various brands.

Police also seized 18 bags of tobacco with an estimated value of $800.”

Can you not see it?

“We’ve got you surrounded. Step back from your computer, do not close that window. We are coming in.”

…

“As we suspected, Senior Sergeant, see here – the bounder was scrolling through Catallaxy Files.”

Mick Gold Coast QLD

10 Feb 13 at 11:46 pm
My nomination for election night song, when Gillard speaks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzntZLHcYy0 – Imperial march, Star wars.

I will be dancing around the room to this when Gillard is conceding defeat.

Andrew

10 Feb 13 at 11:55 pm
The left just can’t leave Gina Rhinehart alone. Hopefully the latest character assassination by Andrew Denton and co will be bankrupted by the defamation case:

THE ugly and acrimonious battle between Gina Rinehart and her children will be explored in a new Channel 9 telemovie with the explosive working title, Mother Monster Magnate.

Staking their claim to tell the complex and controversial story of Australia’s richest woman, Nine’s two-part four-hour mini-series will be the first joint venture between the recently merged trio of Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder and the Logie and AFI-winning actress Claudia Karvan.

The antagonistic title is likely to enrage the litigious Rinehart who fought desperately to keep the private war being waged with her children over their billion dollar fortune.

Investigative journalist Steve Pennells, who won last year’s Walkley media prize for his exposes of the explosive family trust fight between Rinehart and three of her children, has been signed to the project as a consultant.

Tom

11 Feb 13 at 12:15 am
New post up. No religion this time.

http://thaiyobbo.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/self-delusion-and-the-sex-tourist/

Because I am on WordPress, I have to approve every poster the first time they leave a comment. So your comment probably won’t appear immediately.

That’s it. No more Grigorising from me.

Yobbo

11 Feb 13 at 2:04 am
IT, that expat in China blog you shared is a fucking corker!

Abu Chowdah

11 Feb 13 at 4:04 am
Your Moving Out by Carol Bayer Sager will probably do the trick on the night TLS is turfed out.

John Comnenus

11 Feb 13 at 6:28 am
The Gillard rabble’s media partner Fairfax has confirmed that the strategy of using the ACC and and justice minister Jason Clare (who holds his western Sydney seat by only 12.2%) to trash the reputation of Australian sport without evidence has struck a chord among Jock McSporran’s target demographic on the far left: The number of Age readers who answer in the affirmative when asked “Have you lost faith in Australian sport?” is climbing towards 50% after opening overnight in the 40s. I suspect that something north of 70% of people in the real world would answer in the negative.

Tom

11 Feb 13 at 7:19 am
Tom, I’ve just added my “No”. It is already at 50%.

eam

11 Feb 13 at 7:36 am
Red Ted Baillieu wants to supplement Victoria’s world-leading speed camera revenue with fines for parents who don’t send their kids to school:

EXCLUSIVE: PARENTS who fail to send their children to school without a good reason face new fines of at least $70 next year.

The crackdown is aimed at parents whose children are absent without a reasonable excuse for more than five days in a year and who refuse to work with the school to improve attendance.

Erring parents will be issued with infringement notices by Department of Education school attendance officers.

Days off for shopping trips, to visit friends or relatives, or for other leisure activities will not be deemed good excuses.

In some cases, for first-time offenders, warning notices will be issued.

A 30-day period of consultation on the proposed statewide crackdown begins today.

Currently, problem parents who allow children to miss school must be taken to court in order for a fine to be issued. No one has been pursued under the existing legislation.

Tom

11 Feb 13 at 7:40 am
latest effort from the Barack Obama playbook

women buying RU486 online because they cant afford to go to a clinic to have an abortion

entropy

11 Feb 13 at 7:46 am
WOMEN are buying abortion drug RU486 online and having abortions on their own at home because they cannot afford a doctor’s prescription or cannot get to a clinic.

The drug Mifepristone, also known as RU486, has been controversial since 2006 when then-health minister Tony Abbott effectively banned it.

FFS. Labor has been in government for more than five fucking years.

If they want all-you-can-eat abortion pills freely available to any woman who has a yen to kill her child, they can do it – and they’ve had five fucking years to do it.

It’s like the gay marriage debate – they’ve had more than five years to legalise it, if they actually had any desire to do so. By having continually failed to do so, how are they any more “progressive” or any less “heteronormative” than the Liberals?

Do the media even realise that Labor and the Greens are not in opposition anymore, and have in fact been in charge since 2007?

sdog

11 Feb 13 at 8:05 am
My nomination for election night song, when Gillard speaks.

Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again. NO WAY … you know the rest. All together now … NO WAY GET etc etc.

Rudiau

11 Feb 13 at 8:20 am
” dancing around the room to this when Gillard is conceding defeat.”
What?
The other facist with no english skills was not allowed to concede. He was dealt with appropriately. Hopefully this too will be Gillard’s lot.

WhaleHunt Fun

11 Feb 13 at 8:21 am
Il Duce

WhaleHunt Fun

11 Feb 13 at 8:29 am
latest effort from the Barack Obama playbook

women buying RU486 online because they cant afford to go to a clinic to have an abortion

Since the Obama admin got a pass over the 4 preventable deaths in Benghazi and in the cover up got away with locking up a moron who made a bad film, they have been in full leftard over-reach mode.

Drone strikes on US citizens. Collosal cluster-f**kup in response to Super Storm Sandy (which saved the Sun King’s arse during the election), Saying “who cares” to investigators of those deaths. Blatantly negotiating in a way to create permanent bad faith with congress.

All we can do now is watch as the MSM gives them enough rope to hang themselves.

Hubris is and always will be deadly.

Token

11 Feb 13 at 8:29 am
RU486 is available legally in Australia. It is not available through a GP but there are clinics which can legally prescribe it.

I make no judgement on those who choose to use it.

eam

11 Feb 13 at 8:30 am
Israel cleans up their ABC.

IBA workers, aware of the existing featherbedding, had for years resisted the notion of reform, fearing that many of them would lose their jobs – and as they predicted, many of them will.

The road to reform has been an extremely long one, with IBA workers conducting fully-fledged strikes, by-the-book slowdowns, sit-ins, walkouts, and numerous other tactics to express their dissatisfaction with the changes. However, the new IBA CEO, former newsman Yoni Ben Menachem, made it clear to the union that if they did not accept the reforms, the government was likely to shut down the network – television and radio – altogether

Rudiau

11 Feb 13 at 8:31 am
This will be the song sung on election night by the camp followers, rent seekers, moochers, and assorted other teat suckers. The carnival is over .

Splatacrobat

11 Feb 13 at 8:36 am
I make no judgement on those who choose to use it.

Not even stupid?

JamesK

11 Feb 13 at 8:37 am
I wonder how different the voting would be in the US. Soviet citizens leaning away from free enterprise towards the Soviet planning model.

The survey also posed a question about the economic system. Poll results show that more than half of Russians (51 percent) support an economic model based on state planning (49 percent in 2012). Only 29 percent spoke in favor of private ownership and a free market system (36 percent in 2012).

Rafe

11 Feb 13 at 8:37 am
I wonder where hairshirt hamilton and flannery were?

Climate Authority boffins dine out on $1700 dinner

So which future Labor MP put that on his taxpayer funded credit card?

Has he/she noted how that the ALP/Greens/Country agrian socialists reward and protect those who rort?

Token

11 Feb 13 at 8:38 am
RU486 is available legally in Australia. It is not available through a GP but there are clinics which can legally prescribe it.

I make no judgement on those who choose to use it.

eam
11 Feb 13 at 8:30 am

That’s the point. A confected issue to trap AbbottAbbottAbbott.

Entropy

11 Feb 13 at 8:40 am
…fines for parents who don’t send their kids to school…

I’m sure One Term Ted would say everyone he knows is demanding this nanny state intervenion.

As the Courageous Bunyip has noted many times, he spends all his time seeking the approval of the Labor luvvie set.

Token

11 Feb 13 at 8:48 am
Drone strikes on US citizens

If those US citizens are Islamic terrorists in the ME or Africa I say keep up the good work.

jupes

11 Feb 13 at 8:48 am
RU486 is available legally in Australia. It is not available through a GP but there are clinics which can legally prescribe it.

But the point is, if Gal-Qaeda is gonna whinge about how it’s too haaaaard! to get all-you-can-eat yummy free abortion pills, why on God’s green earth are they blaming the dude who was Health Minister SEVER FREAKING YEARS AGO and not the folks who’ve been running the show ever since?

That’s just deranged.

sdog

11 Feb 13 at 8:53 am
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again..

The winner of the election night song competition.

eam

11 Feb 13 at 8:55 am
If those US citizens are Islamic terrorists in the ME or Africa I say keep up the good work.

I’m noting the difference in the way John Wu’s memo aabout the use of torture and the killing of US citizens are being treated. The Sun King used the opposition to that legal opinion to great political advantage.

Compare torture / psycho intimidation to outright killing which used to be a no go zone as there was a serious legal thingy that prevented previous administrations from doing the same.

_________________________________

A CONFIDENTIAL report prepared for the NSW Coalition government in 2011 found no evidence “public trust was breached in any way” in the granting of mining exploration licences by former resources minister Ian Macdonald over land owned by his Labor Party “mate” Eddie Obeid.

However, the cabinet-in-confidence report, by consultants Clayton Utz, found Mr Obeid “may have made use of inside information relating to the department’s intention to grant an exploration licence” at Mount Penny, in the Bylong Valley 150km west of Newcastle.

I saw this and thought, Clayton Utz has a lot of egg on their face now. Strangely I don’t believe that is the thrust of the story.

Token

11 Feb 13 at 8:55 am
Are posts about Eddy Obeid now blocked by the spam thingy? I’ve got a post lost in moderation and I’m not sure why.

Token

11 Feb 13 at 8:57 am
Drug addled Hollywood leftists – loathsome, craven amoral monsters:

Mr Sheen said: “Christopher Dorner, this is Charlie Sheen. You mention me in your manifesto so thank you for your kind words. I’m urging you to call me and let’s figure out together how to end this thing.

Rabz

11 Feb 13 at 8:59 am
Ann Bressington Exposes Agenda 21, Club of Rome, Sustainable Development, at the Lord Monckton Launch 2 Feb 2013 at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Hon Ann Bressington:- Profile.

If this has been posted before, apols.

Rudiau

11 Feb 13 at 9:00 am
The winner of the election night song competition

Can’t get that f*ckin song out of my head now.
I take that as a good omen though.

Rudiau

11 Feb 13 at 9:05 am
Do they come with disposables or the safety pinned cotton nappies?

Well it makes a change from all the talk about cars and guns.

What’s a good age to buy your baby their first gun?

boy on a bike

11 Feb 13 at 9:05 am
I noticed some mysogyinist internet nutjobs got referenced in Tim Blair’s column today:

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard recently warned Labor’s caucus to stop leaking to journalists. Naturally, this was immediately leaked to journalists. The speed and accuracy of Labor’s apparatus for leaking is truly something to behold.

There’s no actual government Department of Leakage, which is probably one reason why it’s so brilliantly efficient. Add the usual layers of bureaucracy and officialdom to the current system and it would be months before anyone learned about Julia’s latest outburst. And the information would be wrong.

Compare Labor’s world-class leakage delivery service with, say, the Department of Education. A couple of weeks ago Education Minister Peter Garrett claimed the government scheme to provide high school students with laptop computers had been “delivered on time and within budget”.

As the excellent website Catallaxy Files pointed out, by “within budget” Garrett meant 957,805 laptops had been bought at a cost of $2.4 billion – or $2505 per unit, about four times as much as you’ll pay at Harvey Norman.

Token

11 Feb 13 at 9:15 am
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again..

The winner of the election night song competition.

Do you all not remember after the election in 2007 when Their ABC proudly featured a video on their Unleashed site, called “John Howard’s Farewell Anthem”, based on just that song, showing HoWARd’s head being blown off as being the highlight?

Seriously?

~~wanders off humming “Short memory, must have a, short memory”~~

sdog

11 Feb 13 at 9:21 am
I’ve got a post lost in moderation and I’m not sure why.

I’m in moderation hell on another thread, and I can’t figure out why either.

sdog

11 Feb 13 at 9:25 am
I’ve only just read the link from Entropy @ 7.46. Because it mentioned Obama, I hadn’t bothered.

Sorry Entropy and sdog, I misunderstood your comments. It’s all about the AbbottAbbottAbbott monster and not RU486.

eam

11 Feb 13 at 9:31 am
More rats desert FXJ:

FAIRFAX’S Canberra bureau is on the verge of crisis following the resignation of senior political journalists Lenore Taylor and Katharine Murphy, who have both been hired by The Guardian for its soon-to-be-launched Australian operation.

Diary confirmed last night they decided to leave the joint Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Canberra Times bureau, unhappy with Fairfax management. In one week, Fairfax has lost The Age’s political editor, Michelle Grattan, and now Taylor, the Walkley-winning chief political correspondent for SMH, and Murphy, national affairs correspondent for The Age.

Canberra bureau staff have told Diary morale among the political staffers is now at an all-time low less than one month before the company converts its mastheads to tabloid and raises paywalls around its websites. The papers’ ability to adequately cover this year’s federal election now looks as though it will be severely tested.

HT Bolt

Tom

11 Feb 13 at 9:37 am
The winner of the election night song competition

The voice as well, don’t forget the voice. I automatically hit mute when its image appears on the TV.

Woolfe

11 Feb 13 at 9:37 am
Even Rupert Murdoch has tweeted:

Drones okay, but must be used much more sparingly, otherwise every hit a huge recruiter for jihadists.

I heard Sidney Jones of the (Soros funded?) Crisis Group saying that the Indonesian Police had killed a lot of terrorists, but were getting blowback and a number of police had been killed. She appeared to be saying they had to work differently. Negotiate?
The ideology being confronted has the policy “convert or die”. Not much room for negotiation there. If police are still being shot that just proves they haven’t offed enough terrorists yet.

blogstrop

11 Feb 13 at 9:42 am
If police are still being shot that just proves they haven’t offed enough terrorists yet.

The Indonesian police and military have been magnificent. They have hunted down jihadists like vermin and prosecuted them under Rule .303. They have stopped many bombing episodes before they could be executed and undoubtedly have saved hundreds of lives. But they will get no prizes or awards from the leftist “peace” institutions, just gratitude from the overwhelming majority of the Indonesian public.

Tom

11 Feb 13 at 9:49 am
Henry Ergas articulates why, no matter how attractive it seems at a point in time, I will never invest too much of my money into Super while there is a chance lefties can hold the treasury benches:

That is because taxing super as ordinary income would yield ludicrously high effective tax rates on retirement savings. Consider a taxpayer facing a 46.5 per cent marginal tax rate. Assuming a nominal return of 8 per cent and a real return of 5 per cent due to 3 per cent inflation, taxing that income earner’s superannuation as ordinary income would imply an effective tax rate of about 70 per cent, in part because taxes would remove income that was simply compensation for inflation.

Indeed, for super held for 40 years, the effective tax rate would be 95 per cent, meaning that each dollar saved would fund 5c in future consumption. In other words, to pay for $1 in retirement consumption, a young person today would need to save $20, with 19 of those 20 dollars then being removed as tax.

As well as being inequitable, such tax rates would be manifestly inefficient. To the extent to which taxpayers could avoid them, they would save less or divert their savings into other assets, including the tax-sheltered family home.

As for compulsory super, imposing the higher tax rate on it would be exactly equivalent to an increase in the income tax, as the super payment that had to be made on each dollar earned attracted penal levels of taxation. The result would be to discourage working, reduce labour force participation and inefficiently decrease output. And instead of rising, the long-term tax take would shrink.

Just because this Labor/Green government will not do it, does not mean it is off the agenda. The pot of cash is too tempting for the wastrels on the left that depend envy for political influence.

Token

11 Feb 13 at 10:01 am
I’ve only just read the link from Entropy @ 7.46. Because it mentioned Obama, I hadn’t bothered.

Sorry Entropy and sdog, I misunderstood your comments.

No worries, eam – the “Obama” reference confused me as well, since RU486 is not and has not recently been much of an issue in the US lately. That’s why I went and read the link – I was curious as to what was going on. Even Obama isn’t radical enough (or as foolhardy enough) to propose that RU-486 be “free” under his new healthcare system. I’m not sure why Ent highlighted it as the “latest effort from the Barack Obama playbook”.

sdog

11 Feb 13 at 10:19 am
Spot, there’s been what? 55 million African American (is that the current term?) babies aborted legally, and they’re not rioting in the streets over the genocide?

Winston SMITH

11 Feb 13 at 10:27 am
FAIRFAX’S Canberra bureau is on the verge of crisis following the resignation of senior political journalists Lenore Taylor and Katharine Murphy, who have both been hired by The Guardian for its soon-to-be-launched Australian operation.

Too bloody funny. A pair of mediocrities leave a dinosaur meeja outlet about to collapse for a an even more ridiculous dinosaur meeja outlet that also just happens to be on the verge of collapse.

An Australian arm of the grauniad – what a winner!

Rabz

11 Feb 13 at 10:37 am
“Detectives visited the Blacktown Markets on Cricketers Arms Road on Sunday morning and will allege they were offered cigarettes by the woman operating the stall.

They raided the stall and the woman’s car, allegedly finding 2799 packets of cigarettes of various brands.

Police also seized 18 bags of tobacco with an estimated value of $800.”

There are now tens of millions of cigarettes being smuggled into the country – thanks to the Presbyterian left’s latest morals campaign – and they cannot be stopped. We now have a new front in the war on drugs and the state has already lost.

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 10:45 am
With Le Snore and Murphy on board the grauniad should be able to hit the ground with teh stupid turned up to 11. Greatest recruiting coup since Our Jessica managed to clamber about SS Newscorp.

H B Bear

11 Feb 13 at 10:49 am
With Le Snore and Murphy on board the grauniad should be able to hit the ground with teh stupid turned up to 11.

Indeed, Bear. It will be beautiful in its ugliness.

Rabz

11 Feb 13 at 10:55 am
BREAKING: Abbott introducing a bill to increase penalties on union members who misuse union funds.

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 10:56 am
Brilliant: Brendan O’Neill ridicules “invented” and “bonkers” gay ‘marriage’ obsession.

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 11:00 am
Sentenced : The Farewell Album

Music to celebrate the 14th of September 2013, or whatever actual date this year that the disgraceful Liars/Greens are thrown out of office.

I especially like tracks 1, 4, 7 and 13.

Septimus

11 Feb 13 at 11:41 am
And on the ninth day God spilt some coffee on an angry possum and God made a Liberal.

Rudiau

11 Feb 13 at 11:53 am
Abbott introducing a bill to increase penalties on union members who misuse union funds.

Andrew, this means he will do nothing else about bringing the Unions into the Corporations Act.

Winston SMITH

11 Feb 13 at 12:13 pm
Rudi, I noticed you posted the video above.

Does anyone know of a useful written summary or analysis of agenda 21?

I tried reading the fucking thing and as I expected it’s largely impenetrable gibberish.

Oh and Ghey, don’t bother thanks.

Rabz

11 Feb 13 at 12:51 pm
Spot, there’s been what? 55 million African American (is that the current term?) babies aborted legally, and they’re not rioting in the streets over the genocide?

Winston you can’t point that out because it’s WAAAAAYCIST!1!!

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 12:52 pm
For all Q and A masochists James Paterson will be on tonight. He is very good and you’ll see some great fireworks.

Sinclair Davidson

11 Feb 13 at 1:13 pm
Tonight’s Panel

Chris Evans – Labor Senator for Western Australia
George Brandis – Shadow Attorney General
Corinne Grant – Comedian & Writer
Rachel Botsman – Author & Social Innovator
James Paterson – Editor of the IPA Review

Counting Jones, another 4 lefties vs 2 non-lefties Q&A panel.

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 1:16 pm
Any day, with the Guardian, Fairfax and the Drum all competing for the same, dwindling audience, we’ll get calls of ‘Market Failure’. And from there, there will be calls for ex-ABC funding to be given to struggling media companies (co-investment, it will be called) until they ‘get back on their feet’. This money will then be used to pay out departing employees nice fat redundancy packages.

The fact that the audience contains a huge number of leftist idiots who wouldn’t be caught dead paying for anything will pass the useful idiots by.

These idiots throw bilge at Rupert Murdoch for being the centre of evil, but fail to see it is the ABC that eats the audience they are fighting over.

There will be no more senior Canberra political correspondents because the infrastructure to support that kind of vanity spending is gone forever.

And not a moment too soon, I say.

brc

11 Feb 13 at 1:21 pm
Rachel Botsman – Author & Social Innovator

Social Innovator?

Kill me now. What are the odds on this person holding wymmyns studies degree and having suckled at the public teat for an entire lifetime?

brc

11 Feb 13 at 1:22 pm
CL – I make that 1 non-lefty v 5 lefties.

Sinclair Davidson

11 Feb 13 at 1:25 pm
CL – I make that 1 non-lefty v 5 lefties.

Me too.

Infidel Tiger

11 Feb 13 at 1:26 pm
Heh.

Yeah.

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 1:27 pm
I hope James give Brandis a few heavy clips round the ears and then works the body until he cries like a little girl.

Infidel Tiger

11 Feb 13 at 1:27 pm
Social Innovator?

Kill me now. What are the odds on this person holding wymmyns studies degree and having suckled at the public teat for an entire lifetime?

Her web site says she is a “global thought leader.”

BFA (Oxford), Harvard.

Runs some kind of consultancy business.

http://www.rachelbotsman.com/about/

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 1:30 pm
BFA? Bachelor of Fuck All?

Tom

11 Feb 13 at 1:34 pm
Well well well.

Investigation into fake pro-Labor posts.

An investigation has been launched into the use of the parliamentary computer network to post pro-Labor messages online, using fake names.

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 1:35 pm
Fine arts, Tom.

Fine arts.

The Ruskin School.

A nice degree for a woman, I think.

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 1:38 pm
She gets the good looking girl pass.

Infidel Tiger

11 Feb 13 at 1:46 pm
An investigation has been launched into the use of the parliamentary computer network to post pro-Labor messages

Yep, Grey has taken over from the Steves and others, maybe until uni goes back, or if he’s a shiny bum in Canberra no probs doin’ it on the boss’s time.

blogstrop

11 Feb 13 at 1:47 pm
Corinne Grant – Comedian & Writer
Not to mention active member of the Labor Party, Advisor to the PM on Public Speaking tips and presenter of “LaborTV” during the Victorian State Election campaign. Bet none of these items on her CV will be mentioned when she’s introduced tonight.

Cold-Hands

11 Feb 13 at 2:00 pm
She may well get the “good looking girl pass”, but be in no doubt that she is not to be trusted.

Huckleberry Chunkwot

11 Feb 13 at 2:02 pm
Fine arts

1.Creative art, esp. visual art, whose products are to be appreciated primarily or solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectua…
2.An activity requiring great skill or accomplishment: “the fine art of persuasion”.

Tom @ 1.34 is correct.

Septimus

11 Feb 13 at 2:05 pm
Corinne Grant’s Q&A bio makes no mention of her ALP ties:

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/coming_up.htm#CORINNE_GRANT

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 2:06 pm
Advisor to the PM on Public Speaking

LOL

jupes

11 Feb 13 at 2:12 pm
blogstrop 11 Feb 13 at 9:42 am
Negotiate?

In past wars bullets were the negotiation tool.

stackja

11 Feb 13 at 2:13 pm
PG: What is your biggest eco-sin?

RB: Long flights from Australia. It is hard to truly experience the world and give speeches over Skype!

RR: Flying. But I also think we have to be careful not blanket air transportation with

condemnation. Perhaps one of the greatest threats to our environment is human

ignorance and I believe that travel – meeting people and seeing our planet’s beauty – is a

fundamental necessity in the campaign to persuade people that we need to take action.

Gold.

Infidel Tiger

11 Feb 13 at 2:25 pm
Corinne Grant’s Q&A bio makes no mention of her ALP ties:

What about her Get Up! and Climate Alarmist ties?

JamesK

11 Feb 13 at 2:36 pm
Jenny Macklin in the House speaking about “Dads” being able to stay at home with their newborn babies.

Why the hell would a father stay home with a newborn baby?

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 2:39 pm
Surely it’s false and misleading to label Grant a comedian?

Infidel Tiger

11 Feb 13 at 2:43 pm
Why the hell would a father stay home with a newborn baby?

He might be insane. Maybe Elton made him.

Infidel Tiger

11 Feb 13 at 2:44 pm
Surely it’s false and misleading to label Grant a comedian?

Abu Chowdah

11 Feb 13 at 2:45 pm
iPad fail….

Standards are lower in Melbourne, IT. It gave us Rod Quantock and that fucking idiot woman who made the comments about Bindi Irwin.

Abu Chowdah

11 Feb 13 at 2:46 pm
Apart from Hoges and possibly Barry Humpreys, has Australia ever produced a funny person of note?

We really are the land of the humourless wowser.

Infidel Tiger

11 Feb 13 at 2:50 pm
Apart from Hoges and possibly Barry Humpreys, has Australia ever produced a funny person of note?

Col Elliot.
Legend.

Huckleberry Chunkwot

11 Feb 13 at 2:52 pm
IT – including those two, no.

Sinclair Davidson

11 Feb 13 at 2:53 pm
Apart from Hoges and possibly Barry Humpreys, has Australia ever produced a funny person of note?

Kevin Bloody Wilson
Super-Legend

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 2:54 pm
Oh, I dunno, seems to me that Infidel Tiger is a comedian and is legendary at the Cat, making him a person of note.

Gab

11 Feb 13 at 2:55 pm
Charlie Pickering

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11 Feb 13 at 2:55 pm
Essential Media: Coalition 55%, ALP 45% 2PP

Sinclair Davidson

11 Feb 13 at 2:57 pm
Wayne Swan.

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 2:57 pm
Wayne Swan.

Huckleberry Chunkwot

11 Feb 13 at 2:57 pm
JC and his “damn iPad” routine which seems to be infecitous.

.

11 Feb 13 at 2:58 pm
Sorry about the last, it should read as follows:

Wayne Swan.
Fuckwit.

Huckleberry Chunkwot

11 Feb 13 at 2:58 pm
Sorry CL, snap.

Huckleberry Chunkwot

11 Feb 13 at 2:59 pm
Apart from Hoges and possibly Barry Humpreys, has Australia ever produced a funny person of note?

Rodney Rude?
Kevin Bloody Wilson?

Like the prophets of old they were never really accepted by their own country.

Splatacrobat

11 Feb 13 at 2:59 pm
Rodney Rude?
Kevin Bloody Wilson?

Rodney Rude is shit.

Mr Bloody-Wilson is more a bush balladeer to my ears.

Infidel Tiger

11 Feb 13 at 3:04 pm
Kevin Wilson “Living next door the Alan”

Splatacrobat

11 Feb 13 at 3:04 pm
Barry Humphreys is hilarious. If you’ve never seen a full evening show, live, then you might not be aware of that. And he takes the piss out of lefties in his shows.

I’ve seen many comics live and he and Billy Connolly made me cry with laughter, but Barry was the funniest.

Abu Chowdah

11 Feb 13 at 3:06 pm
I loved Humphrey’s live show too. Don’t walk in late would be my advice.

Infidel Tiger

11 Feb 13 at 3:09 pm
“Living next door the Alan”

Maybe he should release a newer version, Living next door to Allah?

Gab

11 Feb 13 at 3:10 pm
Billy Connolly used to be hysterical. Stopping drinking, marrying a Kiwi and getting all global warmy ruined him.

Infidel Tiger

11 Feb 13 at 3:11 pm
So no one likes Charlie Pickering?

.

11 Feb 13 at 3:11 pm
His character of the old ghost, Sandy Stone, is also a scathing criticism of progressive attempts to ‘improve’ society.

I imagine that’s what CL looks like, but with a laptop on his lap.

Abu Chowdah

11 Feb 13 at 3:12 pm
Abu, I saw Humphries full evening show in Melbourne once. Dame Edna and Sir Les were hilarious, but Sandy Stone was filled with unbelievable pathos. It really was masterful.

dover_beach

11 Feb 13 at 3:12 pm
Snap!

Abu Chowdah

11 Feb 13 at 3:13 pm
Rodney Rude?
Kevin Bloody Wilson?

Kevin Rude*?

* As named by a certain public figure of some notoriety…

Rabz

11 Feb 13 at 3:13 pm
Sir Les Patterson is the funniest character ever invented. Closely followed by Tim Flannery.

Tom

11 Feb 13 at 3:14 pm
Rabz.
After Googling “libertarian perspective on agenda 21″

Found this PDF explaining Agenda 21 in laymans language.
Also,
Alabama Adopts First Official State Ban on UN Agenda 21
Iowa, Virginia, Alabama, Missouri, New Hampshire have banned or proposing to ban A21.

Meanwhile this list of Australian Lemming Councils participating in A21 from Local Governments for Sustainability

Australia

Australian Capital Territory Government
Ashfield Municipal Council
Bega Valley Shire Council
Burwood Council
City of Lake Macquarie
City of Sydney
Coffs Harbour City Council
Gosford City Council
Holroyd City Council
Hunters Hill Council
Kogarah Council
Leichhardt Municipal Council
Liverpool City Council
Mosman Municipal Council
North Sydney Council
Palerang Council
Parramatta City Council
Richmond Valley Council
Shellharbour City Council
Snowy River Shire Council
Strathfield Municipal Council
Alice Springs Town Council
Brisbane City Council
Cairns Regional Council
Ipswich City Council
Sunshine Coast Regional Council
Townsville City Council
Adelaide City Council
Campbelltown City Council SA
City of Burnside
City of Marion
City of Onkaparinga
City of West Torrens
District Council of Mount Barker
Ballarat City Council
Bass Coast Shire Council
Benalla Rural City Council
Brimbank City Council
Cardinia Shire Council
City of Greater Geelong
City of Melbourne
City of Port Phillip
City of Whitehorse Council
City of Whittlesea Council
City of Wodonga
City of Yarra
Colac Otway Shire Council
East Gippsland Shire Council
Greater Shepparton Shire Council
Hepburn Shire Council
Manningham City Council
Maroondah City Council
Mildura Rural City Council
Moira Shire Council
Moorabool Shire Council
Rural City of Wangaratta
Warrnambool City Council
Wyndham City Council
City of Bunbury
City of Busselton
City of Greater Geraldton
City of Joondalup
City of Mandurah
City of Melville
City of Perth
City of South Perth
City of Stirling
City of Subiaco
City of Vincent
Rockingham City Council
Shire of Augusta-Margaret River
Shire of Dardanup
Shire of Peppermint Grove
City of Kwinana
Australian Local Government Association

Scary.

Rudiau

11 Feb 13 at 3:19 pm
Apart from Hoges and possibly Barry Humpreys, has Australia ever produced a funny person of note?

Norman Gunston was pretty bloody funny.

Rabz

11 Feb 13 at 3:20 pm
Some people cringe at Sir Les because they mistake it as a stereotyping that solely caters to the preconceptions of a UK audience. But if you look beneath the surface, Humphreys uses that character to fly under the radar and totally take the piss out of the poms. There’s a lot of Barry in Les. A lot of the old undergraduate uni student who likes to tweak the establishment.

That the 20 year old prankster is still at the controls of the 70 year old thespian is manifest in his stage shows. I’ve seen him live four times in his show and once as Fagan in London. At one show in Australia he closed as Edna to a rapturous standing ovation. On the last encore he (she) was waving like the queen as the plush curtains came down and the follow spot got smaller and smaller. As a glutton for applause it ended up with he clearly lying behind the curtain, arm on the stage as the curtain descended, waving regally as the applause swelled until, at the last minute, all you could see was her hand on the stage, peeking through the curtain, and which seamlessly moved from one last circular wave until he was flipping the entire audience the bird. It was fucking hilarious and genius and proof that he is an arch piss taker.

Abu Chowdah

11 Feb 13 at 3:20 pm
Kev is the people’s poet.
Saw Humphries in Melb last year. Sandy Stone does level the audience out a fair bit. As for coming in late, far worse to leave early. Edna hopped into one old biddy about living in Toorak. As she got up and walked out in high dungeon, Edna asked “will you be long dear?”

Pickles

11 Feb 13 at 3:20 pm
Thanks Rudi.

Rabz

11 Feb 13 at 3:21 pm
As a follow up, that’s why he said that awful stuff about Gina Reinhardt on the ABC. He rightly considers the ABC to be stuffy, right-on and parochial. It’s clear his attitude is, if these fuckheads will let me on the air, I’ll push them to see if they’ll ban me. He must think them panderers and cowards.

Abu Chowdah

11 Feb 13 at 3:23 pm
I’m ashamed to say my local Shire was on that list.

tbh

11 Feb 13 at 3:23 pm
There are few things more nauseating than watching one of those Australian ‘comedy festivals’ or comedy debates – wherein every ‘edgy’ stand-up wannabe competes to mock with extreme prejudice such taboo subjects as Tony Abbott, the Liberal Party, the Republicans, the Catholic Church, the rich, the male, heterosexuals, capitalism and white people.

————————————–

Eddie Murphy was hilarious in his early days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li1-52ZZuZo

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 3:25 pm
Eddie was hilarious, I agree. The two best stand up comedy shows I’ve been to were Ben Elton (yes, I know he’s a smug lefty, but he was funny in those days) and Billy Connelly. I laughed until I nearly vomited at both shows.

tbh

11 Feb 13 at 3:30 pm
Abu, I think you’ve bought Australia-hating Humphreys’ routine a smidgen too credulously. He’s been an establishmentarian nob for nearly 50 years.

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 3:32 pm
Ben Elton was great in the day, I agree.

Abu Chowdah

11 Feb 13 at 3:33 pm
Your ALPBC duly reporting the Legover Man’s reading McSporran’s “Modern Australian families” script from this morning.

There are performing seals at Sea World that could learn from his work ethic.

H B Bear

11 Feb 13 at 3:34 pm
I think you have a superficial reading, CL. He tries to offend everyone.

Abu Chowdah

11 Feb 13 at 3:34 pm
I’m ashamed to say my local Shire was on that list

Bombard ‘em with emails, tweets, snail mail especially around their election time. Encourage them to be the first in OZ to ban A21.
Proud (at the moment} mine isn’t on the list.

Rudiau

11 Feb 13 at 3:36 pm
More Eddie Murphy.

dover_beach

11 Feb 13 at 3:41 pm
Saw Austenstayshus live – funny man. Ripped the Gold Coast ferals over their adoration of that Bali druggie something chronic. Was beautiful.

Best Aus comedians are the troops working away for a weekly wage in our comedy clubs – they have sets honed out of necessity to get a laugh and rock. Any comedian with a media profile becomes a wanker.

pete m

11 Feb 13 at 3:49 pm
Bolt has picked up Tim Blair’s piece on the way the media treats mass killer motivations differently depending on whether they’re right, left, or islamic.
The islamics take the prize for numbers killed, but I recall vividly how the media were reluctant to identify them for what they were until it became too hard to ignore. Then there was still a fair bit of the “why do they hate us? Must be the evil Foreign Policy” meme.

blogstrop

11 Feb 13 at 3:55 pm
What about Rod Quantock?

Steve of Ferny Hills

11 Feb 13 at 3:55 pm
Steve of Ferny Hills

11 Feb 13 at 3:56 pm
Julia claims she has deported more Sri Lankans than Howard. But no mention that fewer Sri Lankans arrived in the first place under Howard.

stackja

11 Feb 13 at 4:01 pm
marrying a Kiwi

Pamela Stephenson is an En Zedder? That explains much

Septimus

11 Feb 13 at 4:16 pm
What % has TLS deported.
Bloody lying f-ing lying liar.
Utter filthy scum.

WhaleHunt Fun

11 Feb 13 at 4:23 pm
Complete with trouser prop, Sir Les Patterson tries to crack onto Jackie Weaver on the Michael Parkinson Show. (This is Part 1: there is also a Part 2 and 3).

Tom

11 Feb 13 at 4:29 pm
45% of Australians support TLS and each day she lies more and these fools suck it up.
Democracy is rooted. Where is POL POT when you have 9 million parasites to find slave labour tasks for

WhaleHunt Fun

11 Feb 13 at 4:33 pm
What about Rod Quantock?

Is he the bearded guy who is trying to go his whole life and never utter a funny sentence?

Token

11 Feb 13 at 4:36 pm
Rod Quantock is the stand up equivalent of Leunig.

H B Bear

11 Feb 13 at 4:56 pm
Corinne Grant’s Q&A bio makes no mention of her ALP ties:

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/coming_up.htm#CORINNE_GRANT

I think the heavy liquor will be required to be able to get through QandA tonight.

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 5:01 pm
For all Q and A masochists James Paterson will be on tonight. He is very good and you’ll see some great fireworks.

Oh, the original list did not have him on there. I guess tonight will me more tolerable.

When is the Evil, bald, fascist gnome, yes you Sinclair, going on Qanda?

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 5:05 pm
Token
I’ve always assumed you to be of the XY heterogametic sex.
Silly me.

Rudiau

11 Feb 13 at 5:10 pm
Not only does my local council appear on that list, the periodic mail-out thing they do is choc-full of ‘sustainability’ dross.

There was high hopes for a new Mayor, but they’re always the same like the last one. They chase the media and mouth platitudes without an ounce of original thought.

brc

11 Feb 13 at 5:17 pm
Unflushable hippie turd predicts feral election massacre of labor in NSW.

Rabz

11 Feb 13 at 5:21 pm
Not only does my local council appear

I can’t believe Marrickville Council isn’t on that list.

An oversight, I’m sure.

Rabz

11 Feb 13 at 5:23 pm
Unflushable hippie turd predicts feral election massacre of labor in NSW.

I got told today that Mungo Maccallum is a mouthpiece for the Coalition.

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 5:31 pm
Token
I’ve always assumed you to be of the XY heterogametic sex.
Silly me.

There are a lot of Tokens in public life Rudi.

Token

11 Feb 13 at 5:31 pm
Unflushable hippie turd predicts feral election massacre of labor in NSW.

McCallum has never seemed to be a mouthpiece for the Coalition, just the opposite. He seems to have had only one flight of fancy in this article – that Windsor might hold New England. Otherwise, his open prediction of a catastrophic outcome for Gillard and Labor (he forgot to mention the Greens) is one more indication that a Ceausescu-style denouement is imminent for this s(t)inking ship of fools.

Septimus

11 Feb 13 at 5:44 pm
We will have a question on gay marriage on Qanda tonight just so Corinne Grant can answer a question.

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 5:45 pm
Unflushable hippie turd predicts feral election massacre of labor in NSW.

Thanks for the link Rabz, now I need to go and rinse my eyes out with cold running water.
Did you read the comments? As many people here are wont to say, “the stupid, it burns!”

Huckleberry Chunkwot

11 Feb 13 at 5:45 pm
Rabz,

Given the tone of the comments at Mungo’s Drum piece, I suspect that were I a purveyor of divers bridges and other paraphernalia I would make a motzah selling them to that crowd.

The trouble is thses gullibles are quite likely to be in the majority and that’s the problem.

Louis Hissink

11 Feb 13 at 5:53 pm
McCallum has never seemed to be a mouthpiece for the Coalition, just the opposite. He seems to have had only one flight of fancy in this article

Yeah, the tweet was rather absurd.

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 5:53 pm
There are a lot of Tokens in public life Rudi.

Well if they are of Julie Boroeski’s calibre that is a good thing.
Her pisstake of Lena Dunham’s “Your First Time” is a scream.

Rudiau

11 Feb 13 at 5:54 pm
Apart from Hoges and possibly Barry Humpreys, has Australia ever produced a funny person of note?

FFS.

Mo McCackie.

Mk50 of Brisbane

11 Feb 13 at 6:11 pm
I don’t know, it’s pretty amusing watching all the lefty heads going through their differing levels of acceptance.

Mungo has accepted that they will lose the election. He has also accepted that the Labor party is terminally ill.

The next step for him is to realise that the life-philosophy of a leftist is a delusional idiocy, and that supporting any socialist party is condemning people to more poverty, suffering and generally worse lives than they otherwise could have had.

There are a couple of comments on the thread where a few people have woken up from their dream, usually several decades too late.

Sadly, precious few of the brainwashed socialists ever make the final step, because it relies on opening up the mind and realising you’ve been fed a pack of lies by an envious, hating and self-interested set of unpleasant people your entire life.

brc

11 Feb 13 at 6:26 pm
Another day in Paradise (well, it’s been raining a bit but that doesn’t really matter). My dearly beloved roasted veggies in foil (pumpkin, sweet potatoes, jacket potates) while I bbq’d pork fillets and zicchini slices. Now enjoying it with a couple of glasses of delicious Benwarin Huter Valley Sangiovese 2006. Life is very good

Septimus

11 Feb 13 at 6:40 pm
zicchini = zucchini. Same … same …

Septimus

11 Feb 13 at 6:42 pm
Huter = Hunter. Hmmm … maybe another glass of the Sangiovese … truth in wine and all that.

Septimus

11 Feb 13 at 6:45 pm
… and before anyone mentions it … I have never been to ~~Hooters~~ Huters

Septimus

11 Feb 13 at 6:52 pm
Even the rusted-ons can’t remember why they vote Labor any more.

H B Bear

11 Feb 13 at 6:53 pm
Bad habit.

Gab

11 Feb 13 at 6:54 pm
God in heaven GAB.
You look just like the guy from Insiders on Sunday 16th September this year.

WhaleHunt Fun

11 Feb 13 at 6:56 pm
“Apart from Hoges and possibly Barry Humpreys, has Australia ever produced a funny person of note?”

All the Insiders on Sunday 16th September.
Will be utterly baldderbursting hilarious.

WhaleHunt Fun

11 Feb 13 at 6:59 pm
It’s what happens when I imbibe far too much alcohol, Whale.

Gab

11 Feb 13 at 7:00 pm
“Apart from Hoges and possibly Barry Humpreys, has Australia ever produced a funny person of note?”

My vote: Garry McDonald as Norman Gunston

JamesK

11 Feb 13 at 7:01 pm
Whalehunt Fun @ 6.56 & 6.59pm,

Beware the Ides of September (not Sunday 16th).

Some Chopin for Insiders on Sunday 15th September 2013.

Septimus

11 Feb 13 at 7:08 pm
Yes, Roy Rene was a scream.

kae

11 Feb 13 at 7:23 pm
Oh shit, gab. No drinking games for you my girl!

kae

11 Feb 13 at 7:25 pm
Some of the posts in Mungo Macullum’s blog are staggering. Especially the first post, which I have replied to. Shows the stupidity of the Labor Party.

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 7:30 pm
One day at a time, Gab

Septimus

11 Feb 13 at 7:31 pm
Septimus, nope.

This is what Insiders will look like on Sunday 15th of september.

Mk50 of Brisbane

11 Feb 13 at 7:42 pm
Lol, Mk 50.
Well played, Sir.

Pedro the Ignorant

11 Feb 13 at 7:50 pm
A thing of beauty Mk50.

Septimus

11 Feb 13 at 7:57 pm
OMG what happened to Gab? Instant old age!! Sinc aint going to do you any favours with a face like that one. LMAO

from the sublime to…er…dont quite know how to describe that gravatar but sure as hell aint pretty Gab.

Aliice

11 Feb 13 at 8:20 pm
Candy
“This is boring but old fashioned vaseline prevents nappy rash.”

Zinc and castor oil does too Candy – works like a charm as does no nappy sunshine and fresh air on the baby’s bottom once a day at least.

No neg comments from any men on whats good for nappy rash. Women are alive and blogging.

Aliice

11 Feb 13 at 8:24 pm
OMG what happened to Gab?

Gabrielle, please remove that photo immediately. Thank you.

Tom

11 Feb 13 at 8:31 pm
Gab, at least put the teeth back in…

Cold-Hands

11 Feb 13 at 8:33 pm
eam – you are dead right I think
”

My 3 babies all wore cloth nappies. It was the plastic pilchers that caused the nappy rash. ”

Its the plastic that traps all the sweat and moisture inside. That is no good – nappy rash loves that. Essential to get the damn things (nappies and pilchers) off once or twice a day and let them roll around bare bottom on a towel or two on a mat even. I used to pram my boy outside under 6 months, for his morning sleep under a white mosquito net and on to the front verandah with no nappy in the fresh air with a towel on top of mattress protector and bedding etc

One day I thought I heard him crying – I wasnt far away – and I checked and he was still fast asleep under the eaves , in the shade on the verandah, of course and what was wailing was some baby magpies in the trees. Could have sworn they sounded just like my baby crying…enough to have me leap off the lounge two metres away.

Aliice

11 Feb 13 at 8:33 pm
Yes teeth in please Gab LMAO

Aliice

11 Feb 13 at 8:34 pm
I think she’s beautiful gab.
With the laughter lines, greys unhidden, cubby cheeks with a dimple and a little redness about the nose.
She’s a happy, unpretentious, salt of the earth type.
I like her.
( and I have a gift for reading faces, )

jumpnmcar

11 Feb 13 at 8:38 pm
IT

“has Australia ever produced a comedian of note?”

No except for Hoges and Barry Humphries and Hoges got too bloody serious in old age (ie he lost it).
What a boring lot of people who take themselves too bloody seriously are we??. Can you imagine how many votes they would get if just one of the politicians was actually funny (but none, not a single solitary one, are /is funny – cant think of ONE who is funny).

God how do we put up with it?

Aliice

11 Feb 13 at 8:40 pm
Just goes to show what a beautiful soul you are, Jump. Unlike the others.

Gab

11 Feb 13 at 8:40 pm
Former rugby champion Nick Farr-Jones, a lawyer, was at a mining conferences in South Africa last Thursday when CNN led its international news bulletins with “the worst day in Australian sport”. He says where he was Australian sport was a laughing stock and the prevailing sentiment was: “Now we know why you guys were so good — you’re cheating”. Clare and Lundy have trashed Australia’s international sporting reputation without a skerrick of evidence of wrongdoing, apparently to knock ICAC off the front page. I think we are dealing with human scum who are prepared to trash our global sporting image for grubby short-term partisan political advantage.

Tom

11 Feb 13 at 8:44 pm
Risked a quick look at 4 Corners for the first time in yonks.

Lasted less than a minute.

Red Kez: America’s starving poor have multiplied despite the soaring oratory and best efforts of Barack Obummer PBUH

JamesK

11 Feb 13 at 8:44 pm
Google gurning.

kae

11 Feb 13 at 8:45 pm
Er, gab, compliments unsettle me a little, I’m not used to em.
I’m a Tradesman.
Please either agree or abuse, that’s my comfort zone.

jumpnmcar

11 Feb 13 at 8:46 pm
Oh Jump….how sweet you are that you can see the goodness in that toothless old hag..that is Gabd gravatar.

Bless your soul Jump! You are going straight to heaven (blindfolded in case you meet Gabs gravatar there).

Aliice

11 Feb 13 at 8:49 pm
There were strenuous attempts made to link the siev-x deaths (353) with the Howard government. A play was penned which contained the meme that Costello and Howard were evil antibodies you could pin such deaths on.
But now in The Australian I read that the NZ High Court has blocked extradition of the smuggler who allegedly organised that ill-fated voyage.
Isn’t it amazing how the first draft of history is left to those least trustworthy to take the notes? Then the dramatists get to consolidate the misconceptions and add a few of their own for effect.

Blogstrop

11 Feb 13 at 8:51 pm
Further to Tom’s comment above:

Former rugby champion Nick Farr-Jones, a lawyer, was at a mining conferences in South Africa last Thursday when CNN led its international news bulletins with “the worst day in Australian sport”. He says where he was Australian sport was a laughing stock and the prevailing sentiment was: “Now we know why you guys were so good — you’re cheating”. Clare and Lundy have trashed Australia’s international sporting reputation without a skerrick of evidence of wrongdoing, apparently to knock ICAC off the front page. I think we are dealing with human scum who are prepared to trash our global sporting image for grubby short-term partisan political advantage.

The audio with Nick Farr-Jones is here. Starts about one-third of the way into the show.
You can really hear the level of Nick’s frustration and despondency in his voice.

Gab

11 Feb 13 at 9:27 pm
Gab, at least put the teeth back in

Or put on the gurning ring.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 9:29 pm
Nick Farr-Jones; a great rugby player, a credit to the game.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 9:31 pm
You know, I was only going to have this gravatar for a few hours, but now with each negative comment the gravatar has an extended stay of 24 hours, per comment that is.

Gab

11 Feb 13 at 9:33 pm
Basically Nick said Austrlaia’s sporting image has been well and truly trashed worldwide.

Thanks gillard, McTernan, Lundy and Clare.

Gab

11 Feb 13 at 9:34 pm
QuandA time troops, why am i doing this to myself.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 9:37 pm
Onya, Sven.

Gab

11 Feb 13 at 9:38 pm
Good on ya Carpe

Tal

11 Feb 13 at 9:39 pm
Carpe, I’m here. And we’re off with a whiny woman bleating about Tom Waterhouse and his flyers for betting.

Think of the childrennnnnn!

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 9:41 pm
Nick F-J is one hell of a stand up gent and a great ambassador for Australian sport. He was great player too I might add.

tbh

11 Feb 13 at 9:42 pm
Corrinne Grant – funny as cot death

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 9:43 pm
Oops. Paterson pointing out that just because you don’t like it you shouldn’t force your views on other people.

Rachel sees it as an addiction (gambling) which should be regulated like smoking and drinking. It’s obviously a medical thing.

The impact of the ‘uber-commercialisation of sport’ and we treat sportsmen like commodities.

Yes, she really did say that.

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 9:44 pm
Rachael Botsman is a bit of a looker, but lord she sounds like an idiot.

Watch luvvie Brandis go 50/50 or worse on online gambling.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 9:44 pm
QuandA – brunette bimbo rolls out the motherhood statements.

Evans – as funny as Corinne.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 9:45 pm
Tweet on screen: We shouldn’t surround children at sporting events with gambling adverts.

FFS, what about all those lovely billboards for sprays to deal with erectile dysfunction? Like that’s appropriate?

Since they’ve been killing off the former major sponsors – grog and coffin nails – the gambling mobs have moved in. Care factor? SFA.

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 9:46 pm
Brandis needs a bowler and he’d be fine as Mr. Magoo.

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 9:46 pm
QuandA – has Brandis had an Orchidectomy? get fired up man and stop being a beta male.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 9:46 pm
QuandA – brunette bimbo rolls out the motherhood statements.

Lol, yea.

Yep as I guessed, Brandis is going two bob each way. Unbelievable. Calls for regulation.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 9:47 pm
QuandA time troops, why am i doing this to myself.

Not just taking a bullet for the team, but the whole magazine.

Sinclair Davidson

11 Feb 13 at 9:47 pm
Brandis wants to regulate. “If a particular form of advertising is so invasive that it destroys the viewing experience..” then we should regulateregulateregulate…

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 9:48 pm
Not just taking a bullet for the team, but the whole magazine.

The things Nilk and i do for you guys.

Don’t thank us we’re people people, we give until it hurts.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 9:49 pm
And Grant is off and running with re-education camp for ~~racists~~ WAAYYCISTSS!!

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 9:49 pm
Oh, and why didn’t anyone step up and say anything? She had a 2yo child there, what sort of example does it set?

Rachel and Corinne want to take the child away until the situation is resolved. Think about the child – what sort of example does it set, the child has to go home with that horrible woman (talking about the Rosa Parks moment last week).

Yup, we’re all about the kiddies tonight, kids.

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 9:52 pm
I warned you all about Brandis.

He’s Roxon, only bald.

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 9:52 pm
WTF?

Rachel Botsman – Author & Social Innovator

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 9:52 pm
Is it just me or is Brandis as boring as whaleshit?

Rachael is disgusted by racism, she would manage the situation. Dear god this is turgid bilge.

Can they just group hug and fellate each other, what a friggin love in.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 9:52 pm
warned you all about Brandis.

He’s Roxon, only bald.

Yep. You did.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 9:53 pm
LOLOLOLOL!! Evans bleating that nobody wants to get involved any more, nobody is showing any leadership, while ignoring the elephant in the room where people who get involved may be charged with hurting feelings.

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 9:53 pm
Brandis – you can say what you like, just not intimidate or assault.

Now he is defending 18C.

Sinclair Davidson

11 Feb 13 at 9:55 pm
Brandis talking about free speech – audience responds with stupid expressions – in response to question about terrible, evil, disgusting racist words.

Here’s the question he was responding to:

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS – Michael Koziol has asked: Jeremy Fernandez is not the only one: it is a common thing in this country to be the victim of an offensive and insulting attack on public transport. But you, George Brandis, believe that to prosecute such racists under an anti-discrimination law would be “an outrageous attack on our most fundamental freedoms”. Why?

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 9:56 pm
Gillard really is hopelessly out-classed:

I have always admired Julie Bishop. She has pluck. Discipline. Focus. Her career – and her very demeanour – epitomises someone who is careful, and driven, who stares fixedly at a goal and then achieves it.

This was beautifully evident in the story she told Annabel Crabb on Kitchen Cabinet: as a child, preparing for a cooking competition at Brownies, she spent several weeks baking batch after batch of cupcakes in order to perfect them before being asked to produce them. How many primary school children do you know with this level of perfectionism?

And, of course, she won. Bishop is the type of person who wins, and relishes winning. At school she was head prefect, president of the debating team, captain of the netball team. When she was a lawyer, she became the first woman in Perth to be managing partner of a large law firm.

C.L.

11 Feb 13 at 9:56 pm
He’s Roxon, only bald.

and taller.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 9:57 pm
And better looking.

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 9:58 pm
Actually Brandis defended free speech quite well.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 9:59 pm
QuandA – Chris Evans – “the government is listening to those views”, you liar.

Brandis – “if something is bad should the government always pass a law to ban it” good call.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 10:00 pm
Just because is bad… should the government always pass a law to deal with it, or should society deal with it? ~ Brandis.

Snow Cone of course has to stop that line of thought, and handballs to Paterson, oops.

Paterson notes that swearing and carrying on on the bus actually breaks quite a few laws. The difference there is that for the other laws, the onus of proof is on the accuser, where the new “draft” legislation places the burden of proof on to the accused.

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 10:01 pm
And better looking

aaaaaahahahahahaha – you owe me a keyboard.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 10:01 pm
Rachel blathering. Can someone explain to me what she’s saying?

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 10:03 pm
Fuck Evans is a despicable liar. It’s like in the Liars Party DNA… to lie and bullshit.

Corrine Grant is an imbecile. What a moron.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 10:03 pm
Brunette bimbo comments – ‘types of conversations’.

Here is a tip, don’t smoke crack.

Corrinne – an uber dumb stuttering cluster f**k.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 10:04 pm
I watched 1 minute – Rachel – smoking hot but ugly views.

Grant – smart arse witch who doesn’t give a shit what happens to righties.

James doing well.

Brandis is a lawyer – lawuers live by regulation.

done.

pete m

11 Feb 13 at 10:04 pm
Score! Thanks, Sven.

As for Corinne, for a supposed comedienne she’s a dour and joyless wowser.

(Is that redundant?)

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 10:04 pm
Rachel blathering. Can someone explain to me what she’s saying?

No, but she’s not bad looking so it doesn’t really matter much.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 10:04 pm
I watched 1 minute – Rachel – smoking hot but ugly views.

Just mute her and keep watching.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 10:05 pm
Young James is acquitting himself well, not that he has much to work with in this crowd.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 10:05 pm
far out JC have you got this site on auto refresh every 10 seconds?

pete m

11 Feb 13 at 10:06 pm
Corrinne Grant – funny as cot death

I remember as a homely hick who didn’t say boo as we where laughing away with good spirit at the pub. She was funnier then.

Token

11 Feb 13 at 10:07 pm
Seems there’s going to be a papal resignation for the first time in about 600 years. Vatican statement at 11:30 GMT.

badm0f0

11 Feb 13 at 10:07 pm
Yea James is really doing well.

Yuck, Evan just touched Rach. Diiissgusting.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 10:07 pm
Evans – “all governments are struggling to deal with social media”

It’s twitter fuknuts.

Bimbette – WTF
Corinne – WTF

If you pick them up by the ears it doesn’t hurt them.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 10:07 pm
Yup, Evans is full of crap. There’s a difference between speaking your mind and inciting hatred/being racist, and the government isn’t too involved in regulating it. (paraphrase)

Rachel thinks there’s not enough government involvement in social media, twitter and facebook. A study has shown that of twitter users, 1/3 are inactive, 1/3 use occasionally, and the last 3rd are more active than the rest combined. (Snow Cone interjection: last 3rd are Malcolm Turnbull and Kevni Rudd – ya, I snickered)

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 10:08 pm
Young James

yes it’s good to see yoof within the IPA.

Gab

11 Feb 13 at 10:08 pm
Thanks, Sven.

AAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH

Carpe Jugulum (don't call me Sven)

11 Feb 13 at 10:09 pm
far out JC have you got this site on auto refresh every 10 seconds?

It’s Q&A evening, Pete.

Butch hair cut, fat, and wearing Liar Party specs asks why the mining tax hasn’t raised so much money.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 10:10 pm
Grauniad liveblog of papal resignation.

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 10:10 pm
Of course…got caught up in the Australian drug scandal. Or Team Sky?

haha top comment

pete m

11 Feb 13 at 10:11 pm
sorry – Pope more important than Snow Cone and Co.

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 10:12 pm
Memo Nick Farr-Jones.
Next time a Saffy is inclined to tell you to hang your head re Australian sport, harden up a bit and fire the following five words at them ……..

“Hanse Cronje and Herschelle Gibbs”

Leigh Lowe

11 Feb 13 at 10:14 pm
Can you resign from being God’s chosen representative on Earth then?

another good one

sorry C.L.

About to tell wife.

pete m

11 Feb 13 at 10:14 pm
QuandA – Corinne – “Follow Gina Reignhart and just pay every one $2 a day”

What an ignorant bloated great yak.

Young James is on fire, i like the cut of his jib, i think he just schooled Evans.

Bimbette – still uber dumb.

Carpe Jugulum (don't call me Sven)

11 Feb 13 at 10:15 pm
his speech:

Dear Brothers,

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonisations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.

I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me.

For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.

From the Vatican, 10 February 2013

BENEDICTUS PP XVI

pete m

11 Feb 13 at 10:16 pm
Young James, “If the Labor government is relying on the applause generated by the Q&A audience as a measure of public opinion, it would go some way to explaining why they are in so much trouble.”
Fucking Bang!!!

Huckleberry Chunkwot

11 Feb 13 at 10:16 pm
Hahahahahahha Rach pushes renew balls.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 10:17 pm
I have opened a Pope resignation thread.

Sinclair Davidson

11 Feb 13 at 10:17 pm
Holy shi’ite

Dear Brothers,
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.
Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.
From the Vatican, 10 February 2013

BENEDICTUS PP XVI

nilk

11 Feb 13 at 10:17 pm
QuandA – did Brandis just harden up over the mining tax. Shut up Evans you dribbler.

Evans – “focus on insider stuff” oh dear god what a maroon.

Corinne – still a moron.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 10:18 pm
Wife’s reaction – shock and surprise, then back to her gossip session with her best friend.

pete m

11 Feb 13 at 10:18 pm
Corinne – still a moron.

She thinks she’s funny by moving her jaw to the side making the double chin more prominent.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 10:21 pm
I must say young James is a fairly impressive young man who articulayes his point well.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 10:22 pm
The next step for him is to realise that the life-philosophy of a leftist is a delusional idiocy, and that supporting any socialist party is condemning people to more poverty, suffering and generally worse lives than they otherwise could have had.

– brc

Liberty quote?

Will

11 Feb 13 at 10:23 pm
papal resignation

Incredible news.

dover_beach

11 Feb 13 at 10:24 pm
Mr Sheen said: “Christopher Dorner, this is Charlie Sheen. You mention me in your manifesto so thank you for your kind words. I’m urging you to ~~call me and let’s figure out together how to end this thing.~~ save us all some trouble by putting the barrel in your mouth and your big toe on the trigger. You know the rest.

Leigh Lowe

11 Feb 13 at 10:24 pm
Brandis chipping IPA for supporting communist china policy – why do all these Lib f’tards have to try and be popular in front of an ABC crowd?

pete m

11 Feb 13 at 10:25 pm
There’s a statement of tremendous moral courage, Nilk.

Mk50 of Brisbane

11 Feb 13 at 10:26 pm
Young James, “If the Labor government is relying on the applause generated by the Q&A audience as a measure of public opinion, it would go some way to explaining why they are in so much trouble.”

Liberty quote, bitch!

Infidel Tiger

11 Feb 13 at 10:27 pm
making the double chin more prominent.

Ka-ching, at least someone else noticed it.

Brandis – crap i can’t be bothered with him, anyhoo the far north plan, and on cue evans & snowcone tone interject.

WTF is wrong with these people, Darwin is not remote. asshats.

Corinne – still dumb as a stump

Bimbette – ‘she lived in the states for 10 years’ hoo fkn rah, big bold ideas – renewable energy, please STFU.

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 10:27 pm
Papal resignation?
What?
Has he been caught taking Vitamins via intravenous drip?
Did Paul Howes tap him on the shoulder?

Hope Pell gets the gig for no other reason than it will make 150 heads explode at the ABC.

Leigh Lowe

11 Feb 13 at 10:28 pm
Snowcone shows his parisan side, Corinne is still a dribbling loon.

Young James just owned evans – “you guys invented media management”

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 10:31 pm
Leigh – it would be hilarious because the ABC would have to cover it and say nice solemn things as well, but with an undercurrent of “How did he get it despite being around when kiddy fiddlers were left on the loose”?

I bet his biggest critics would be our own home grown fascists.

pete m

11 Feb 13 at 10:33 pm
Wow, Nilk! The slime-mould who form the ‘readership’ of teh Guardian are exploding with malice, spite and vitroil.

What disgusting malignant scum they are.

Mk50 of Brisbane

11 Feb 13 at 10:35 pm
QuandA My score;

Bimbette – -2
Corinne the dribbler – -4
Evans – +1
Brandis – -1
Snowconetone – -8
Young James – +8

Carpe Jugulum

11 Feb 13 at 10:36 pm
Patterson was brilliant. Slaughtered the opposition and I love how he exposed the Qanda audience not being representative of Australia. The guy should run for public office.

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 10:38 pm
QuandA My score;

Bimbette – -2
Corinne the dribbler – -4
Evans – +1
Brandis – -1
Snowconetone – -8
Young James – +8

Fair crack Carpe.

The Bimbette should at least be +4 when muted.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 10:39 pm
….and I love how he exposed the Qanda audience not being representative of Australia.

There were a few boos to that. Fatty Jones looked crestfallen.

Jc

11 Feb 13 at 10:40 pm
“If the Labor government is relying on the applause generated by the Q&A audience as a measure of public opinion, it would go some way to explaining why they are in so much trouble.”

That line is officially my favourite moment on Qanda forever!!!!!

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 10:41 pm
Scores

Corinne – - infinity
Bimbette – -10
Tony Jones – -100
Evans – -5
Brandis – 6.5
James – 10

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 10:44 pm
why am i doing this to myself.

Wakaranai, Carpe sama.

But you are very brave. I can’t look at Q&A … it’s too gruesome.

Banzai!

Septimus yori

Septimus

11 Feb 13 at 10:45 pm
Corrinne and Evans shows how misanthropic the Left really is.

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 10:46 pm
Tony Jones exposed himself to be as pink as the shirt he is wearing tonight!

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 10:48 pm
Sounds like Paterson went on and totally pitied these fools a la BA Baracus. Good man, someone needs to point out idiocy when they see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_irUw5PfHM

tbh

11 Feb 13 at 10:49 pm
The ALP slag in the audience and the other ALP slag Corinne on the panel did Toneeee’s cause the world of good.

I could almost feel more votes peeling of traditional ALP voters as the programme played out.

JamesK

11 Feb 13 at 10:52 pm
Mass attack on Tony Abbott at the end for his non appearance on the abc and sunrise – the fear! the loathing!

Anyone else notice the Bimbette’s right eybrow seemed to be sprouting a twig?

Corinne really is a sarcy cow. The facial gyrations and self satisfied smirks made me want to punch her up the throat.

Viva

11 Feb 13 at 10:56 pm
JamesK. They weren’t watching.

Steve of Ferny Hills

11 Feb 13 at 10:56 pm
Amazing how Jones questioned James on his connection to Gina Rinehart but not Corrinne’s connection to the ALP. What a sick bunch of anti-democratic wankers.

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 11:01 pm
Annoying how Gina Rinehart is continually misrepresented with her $2 comment.

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 11:05 pm
Corinne looked like she was crapping herself with fear through the show.

Tiny Dancer

11 Feb 13 at 11:07 pm
Patterson was brilliant. Slaughtered the opposition and I love how he exposed the Qanda audience not being representative of Australia. The guy should run for public office.

The poor losers actually think they’re representative of broader Australia.

In your whole life has anyone ever brought up Q&A in a conversation? It is watched exclusively by obsessives, degenerates and unfortunates too disabled to use the remote.

Infidel Tiger

11 Feb 13 at 11:35 pm
My wife rarely stay up and watches Q&A anymore but watched this episode. It took only two minutes for her to pick the lefties and said quite out of the blue as she got up to leave ‘those idiots cannot argue, they are irrational in their responses and have no idea how stupid they look”.

On the mining tax I thought James should have raised the point that State Governments already raise taxes on all mining and THEY spread the benefits through Royalties. The MRRT is all about Labor double dipping.
States currently collect a total of $11.1 Billion dollars a year and expected to ramp up to $13 Billion in 2014/15.
MRRT should be called for what it is; double dip extortion.

Splatacrobat

11 Feb 13 at 11:36 pm
It is watched exclusively by obsessives, degenerates and unfortunates too disabled to use the remote.

I admit to watching it every week. Stupidly, I watch it and then get very frustrated and annoyed by the end of it, struggling to get to sleep.

Odd how people are addicted to things that annoy them or make them mad.

Andrew

11 Feb 13 at 11:40 pm
In your whole life has anyone ever brought up Q&A in a conversation? It is watched exclusively by obsessives, degenerates and unfortunates too disabled to use the remote.

Not once. The guests are generally a bunch of snooty holier than thou wankers who hate the average Australian

tbh

12 Feb 13 at 12:01 am
Hope Pell gets the gig for no other reason than it will make 150 heads explode at the ABC.

Bing! exactly what I thought and for the same reason as I as driving home in the driving rain. I listened to this unfolding on the radio – bad Italian translation I wish he’d've STFU because I would have understood the Italian. The English translation was so effing bad no-one understood anything. Bloody Italians

Tintarella di Luna

12 Feb 13 at 12:04 am
Odd how people are addicted to things that annoy them or make them mad.

Absolutely. Because I know that watching shows like that will make me cranky, I very rarely watch them. I actually give some thought to social/political/economic issues and make up my own mind. I don’t need to be told what to think by some preening wanker trying to show how smart they are to other preening wankers.

tbh

12 Feb 13 at 12:04 am
Odd how people are addicted to things that ~~annoy them~~ make them fat (like figs and gorgonzola) and/or make them mad (like figs and gorgonzola).

Tintarella di Luna

12 Feb 13 at 12:09 am
I’ve just finished a job application. From scratch. I left all the preliminary on a stick drive at work. Damn. And my mobile phone. Blast!

So, what I shame I missed QandA – well, the liveblogging of it anyway.

Poor me.

(Though it may have been better than the job application torture!)

kae

12 Feb 13 at 12:12 am
Buona notte gatti e gattine – the rain on the roof is the perfect nighty-night music.

Tintarella di Luna

12 Feb 13 at 12:12 am
The impact of the ‘uber-commercialisation of sport’ and we treat sportsmen like commodities.

They’re paid shit-loads of money to play a game. Pfft.

kae

12 Feb 13 at 12:21 am
He’s Roxon, only with clean hair.

Oh, wait…

kae

12 Feb 13 at 12:32 am

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