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A sulphurous smell is still emanating from parliament.
I suspect he is still there.
I used to know a guy who worked at the South Korean Consulate in Osaka. I think he was the second most senior there.
Anyway, he was telling me about a time when he went to the North on some mission or other and how they driven around Pyongyang. He said all the people were immaculately dressed, all young, all in the peak of health. It was pretty clearly put on to make the right impression.
A couple of years later he was escorting a guy from the North whom he had met on the earlier trip. As they were driving around Seoul the Nork asked him where all the sick and hungry people were – where did they send them, how easy was it to bring all these healthy people to Seoul.
The infatuated urchin writing in the Honi Soit has the sad affliction of uni students who are convinced that their every thought is new and never been thought of before. They can’t contain their excitement and are impatient with people who are not astounded.
Peter, congratulations sir,
Get stuck in…………………….
Going off your last missive, I have no idea what we disagree about struth.
The LNP is a gaggle of unprincipled careerists. That is the main problem. You might say the dumb ones play into the hands of the (left-wing) media who demand a policy for every issue, no matter how trivial.
if you have a better explanation, it would be great to read it.
Wow! First on page.
There must be a reason this happened. Some profound working of providence has brought my post and the top of this page together.
I think I am going to start a new religion.
Thanks struth
The reason women across the spectrum like Malcolm Turnbull
So…it is only autistic women?
Well done Pete, eggggsellant news, so we have 2 real people and a lawyer!
Custard
I reckon that engineer dude has a good turn of phrase. I reckon he has read the Cat in the past!
According to twitter today, Sussan Ley “has been a sheep shearer hauling 500 fleeces a day”.
Can any Cat comment on that kind of number?
You just say black if I say white , dot.
You’re a bitch like that.
But I asked you not to say they are stupid, or scared of the media.
You don’t bring down a nation’s power supply and expect the voters to be happy.
So why are they doing it?
What money is changing hands to enforce the will of the UN , a will against your voter base?
What did Skeletor get in handing over our taxes?
I bet it won’t be long before we find out.
But it’s a story you’ll have to look for.
The media won’t make it front page.
She would have been a rousabout.
Devine was unhinged on Kenny yesterday evening. She needs to get it through her thick scone that conservatives are not going to support someone that is by their own admission pursuing a progressive agenda.
Reposting cohenite @8.01am Open Forum
The US constitution is a beautiful thing; 7th circuit bans smart meters because they contravene 4th amendment:
WIN! Landmark Seventh Circuit Decision Says Fourth Amendment Applies to Smart Meter Data
Naperville Smart Meter Awareness
A few comments on smart meters w/e post ‘Follow the Money for unreliables’.
What’s your point struth?
I gave an explanation (pretty much complying with the constraints you specified), and all you did was sperge out and squeal that it was wrong.
What is the reason? Corruption? You’re implying that.
Fair enough, but what Australian politicians have actually been on the hook for this sort of thing?
What did John Howard personally gain from going along with the Kyoto Treaty and leading to the rules that screwed over Peter Spencer?
What plum job did Fraser get from instituting World Heritage areas?
You haven’t presented any evidence, I prefer Hanlon’s razor. Maybe I should consider Heinlein’s razor.
Great news.
I wonder how the Bittered Sav is taking it all.
No doubt she is in the kitchen working on the recipe that helped her last time: Eye of toad. Tongue of newt…
Well who would have thought
Well done, Peter!
I remember when you first mooted the idea of running for Parliament. IIRC, you received much encouragement. Now it’s happening.
Successful or otherwise, at least you made the effort, unlike the multitude of whingers who gripe from their lounge chairs.
struth
#2802994, posted on August 27, 2018 at 2:54 pm
You don’t bring down a nation’s power supply and expect the voters to be happy.
So why are they doing it?
This is a question I often asked and so far no real answer forthcoming.
For me, “international obligations” won’t cut it.
At least not until every nation abides by it to the letter, and even then I want out of it.
Indeed,
Good luck to any Cat running for public office, be it Parliament, diplomatic corps, field grade and flag officers, the judicial bench or high civil service.
Well done custard! Give ’em hell.
I’m at a meet up to meet the Vic candidate next Tuesday… any other Cats going?
We have a meet the candidates gathering tonight at the Herdsman. 6.30pm
The best shearer I ever saw could shear 200 in a day – Ley might have been a shed hand/roustabout, handling 500 fleeces in a day.
Susan Ley. Wasn’t she one of the grandstanders trying to shut down the live sheep trade?
Good on you custard. 👍
I know it’s ABC and Oz’ least funny man but thanks to Michael Smith –
aagh, over at Michael Smith news, page 3.
Good for you, Peter.
I am a long-term member of AC and some time ago it crossed my mind to put myself forward as a potential Senate candidate. On reflection however, I decided that I had one or two skeletons in my cabinet that could potentially cause some ’embarrassment’ to the party. Nothing illegal – and I don’t (personally) give a rat’s arse – but I decided that I will assist at the next election in some other way.
Good luck.
Labor senator Patrick Dodson has savaged Scott Morrison for asking Tony Abbott to be an “indigenous affairs envoy”.
Dodson is right, though he is a very abusively spoken man.
The indig. don’t want a white man coming to their communities as some kind of “white special messenger” to tell them what is best. It would be a disaster and reflect badly on TA, even though he does mean the best.
It’s a made-up job to manage TA out of parliament, same with Barnaby Joyce’s “special” job, to get out the remaining conservatives.You can trust PM Morrison as far as you can throw him.
The best thing indigs. can do is stop drinking and stop abusing their own families, and go out and get a job. An envoy cannot enforce that. They simply do not want white people there.
“Fleeces” is a mis-print.
She was only there during crutching.
Meant to read “faeces”.
Fine. Let them sort themselves out without the evil whitefella.
And his money.
You are such an awful shit poster candy.
I mean, it is actually beautiful in its own way. But you should be using green text.
Ley was a dag picker.
Isn’t that prophetic.
“has been a sheep shearer hauling 500 fleeces a day”.
I am certain she didn’t shear 500 sheep a day. Impossible. She may have handled 500 fleeces a day as a shed hand…….
A graph showing the disproportionate number of muslim immigrants this country is importing:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155903850139370&set=pcb.10155903851669370&type=3&theater
He sounds like a nob.
From the Oz. The Labor Party plays the “politics of envy” card.
Skirting 500 fleeces in a day would be a stretch even for a burly roustabout.
Libertarian not be civil.
Stackja
I’ve been civil all day. Civility is not about agreeing with people.
Zulu – ALP donations in small amounts. Very curious.
Candy has a bad habit of thinking the best of people.
I disagree without using swear words.
Pat and Mick Dodson have spent a lot of time, and made a lot of money, out of being the “big men” in some of those communities. They don’t want anyone asking too many questions about where all that money went.
Peanut Head will be going full Corbyn till the next election.
Even Corbyn doesn’t go full Corbyn.
Calli, on the other hand, has a healthy realism.
Must have been hauling the shearing shed’s output in a truck.
That’s fucking nice.
I really don’t think I can handle a full term of the Slovenian Hag shrieking her head off. Any suggestions?
The indig. don’t want a white man coming to their communities as some kind of “white special messenger” to tell them what is best.
But they happily take our money and lots of it.
Yeah, you can imagine what passes for charm and flirtiness in that verbally hamstrung milieu.
I tell you, dot can make an ol’ truckie like me blush.
There really is no need for that type of language, dot.
FMD
Congratulations Mr Castieau!
Pffft.
Lets assume its journalism, and wit to see her personally and ask what she actually said.
wit = wait
Ah, Mr Dodson of section 15 MP and of Central (NT) and Kimberley Land Council stewardship (Councils Inc)
Small memory Mr Dodson ……………….
2008 Coroner calls for Aboriginal community to be shut down
WAYNE BERGMANN (Executive Director KLC): Obviously there are a lot of communities in crisis, but we need to lift people out of the pressure that they’re in so that children can have opportunities for the future.
It can change, but what you need is to get in there and support families, support the community, support the local structures.
DAVID WEBER: The coroner has said it’s not acceptable for public funding to support a closed community for the benefit of a small number of families, some members of which are involved in paedophilia and alcohol abuse.
Doesn’t the solution then come from the people in the community as opposed to the government?
WAYNE BERGMANN: If the government and if the wider community wants to make a huge dent in dealing with Aboriginal people’s social, poor social and economic position, then they need to engage with Aboriginal people to make the hard decisions about how to address these problems in the long-term.
Source: http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=2ahUKEwj4yoC5v4zdAhWUad4KHXG4DzwQFjADegQIBxAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fpm%2Fcontent%2F2008%2Fs2310149.htm&usg=AOvVaw1wVeVrEZBg-hHYjoD_14iT
The real story: Hope at last for ‘hell on earth’
HBB – I wondered who was on the radio one day. The announcer said that the previous voice was Keating. If TB comes on use mute or volume. Eventually ALP will crash. Always have.
Shedhand surely, shearing 500 per day makes you Jacky Howe.
Still a decent hard job.
Sussan Ley was pinged for travel rorting in Jan 17.
I’d trust her on “shearing” prowess as far as I could kick her.
Much talk about women in politics. But little about Maggie T. Socialist women get a free ride.
Jackie Howe shore 321 sheep in a day with blades, in the 1890’s. It wasn’t equaled with machinery for nearly 60 years.
Peter Castieau, well done, now find some creative ways to afflict yourself upon the pompous know-nothings inhabiting the nether regions of Canberra.
See if you can convince Derren Hinchs donors liver to do the right thing for Australia.
Is fixing like this an indictable offence these days? asking for a friend.
Sussan Ley is the only MP to travel too much?
Maggie Thatcher doesn’t count, Stack. She was an honorary man. She certainly had more balls than the rest of her cabinet.
calli, makes her a crook in my view.
Mr Patrick Dodson’s Land and Sea empire of which includes, since the closure of the hell-hole, Oombulgurri children and peoples, now likely dispersed.
Balangarra Aboriginal Corporation includes Oombulgurri (Forrest River Mission + massacre) an entity seeking carbon credits, within Emissions Abatement ERF project – Balanggarra 1 Fire Project – cleanenergyregulator.gov.au
So Gordon Bryant reckoned he took steps to fix the financial problems in his Dept of Aboriginal Affairs.
I had some involvement in the Auditor General’s investigations into DAA at that time. One example gives a clear idea of the contempt that Bryant and his public servants had for taxpayers money.
Gordon Bryant toured the country looking for ways to spend money. He arrived at the Ngukurr Aboriginal Community on the Roper River in the NT, hops off his plane and asks the local elders what they would like.
They didn’t know so one of his lackeys suggested a sewerage system. Yes, yes they said.
Gordon instructs his scribe to draft up a ministerial submission for the approval of the expenditure.
“The Ngukurr Aboriginal Community requires a sewerage system. The estimated cost is $485000.
Grant Approved.
Gordon Bryant
Minister for Aboriginal Affairs”
This was sent back to Canberra while Gordon continued his tour.
The cheque was duly issued with no other documentation to support the payment other than the approval.
I couldn’t believe it when I saw the file. No detailed estimates, no timeline for completion, no details of who was going to do the work, just a ministerial approval!!
I went to the Departmental secretary’s office and said something like you can’t spend public money like this. They agreed and undertook to get the cheque back. I wrote up my report and submitted it up the line and it ultimately got mention the the report to the Parliament among a litany of other examples.
A couple of weeks later I got a call from the Secretary’s office advising that they had recovered the cheque and if I would like to sight it for my records before it went back to the Treasury.
Sure enough, there was the cheque albeit a little creased and soiled addressed to the Chairman, Ngukkur Aboriginal Community for $485,000.00.
A few days later there appeared in The Australian a short one paragraph story about a guy who went into the Border Store, on the Roper River to buy his soap, toothpaste, toothbrush etc. At the checkout, he tendered a cheque for $485000.00 and requested the change!!
At that time, the Aboriginal Affairs budget was about $30 million. It is now over $30 billion. This has been going on, year in year out for 45 years and the position of Aboriginal people has arguably deteriorated.
When those revelations came out, Bryant was moved to Minister for the ACT, the Departmental Secretary, Barrie Dexter was made ambassador to Yugoslavia and they doubled the Departmental budget!!
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha @ 3.45
Pat and Mick Dodson have spent a lot of time, and made a lot of money, out of being the “big men” in some of those communities. They don’t want anyone asking too many questions about where all that money went.
Yup, wouldn’t want Tony A interfering in Project Gulag Archipelago Eh.
Kimberley Land Council (KLC & agencies) wrong about Sovereignty
Ley must have been a rousie. On the table.
Congrats again, Custard. Stick it to ’em.
Divorce lawyers unhappy with court changes. Money? Or feminism?
I shouldn’t think so, Stacks. I’m just very wary of any tyre-pumping story about such a person.
Rubbish Cary. Attack and escalation is the only strategy that has any hope of success. Being nice has failed miserably. I’m realizing you’re just a troll.
He sounds like a nob.
There’s a perfectly logical and reasonable explanation for your observation
Morrison is speaking in tongues now he is outside his comfort zone of speed dial rote learned parliamentary diatribes. Embarrassing.
According to AEMO, Wind and Other producing about 3.5% of demand.
Keep on rockin’ renewables.
good example of maxim it is better sometimes to keep quiet than speak and have your ignorance confirmed.
Cary phoning it in from the imaginary zone were people commenting here think of the Libs as anything other than a rabble.
Go on abuse them some more, they stink only slightly less than tits mcPeanutheads mob which is as low a recommendation as you can get
Alan Kohler wrote this:
https://www.facebook.com/dallas.beaufort/posts/10155903418794370?__tn__=K-R
“We’re a great country, people are going to get back to where they have to have their heads, where they should have their heads.
“That’s where I’m gonna get their heads so we can get on and make this country even greater than it is now.”
No it’s not, it’s pure Trump.
Custard, are you number 2 on the ticket?
Is there any hope for a second senator from WA for AC?
best wishes
ALP has wonderful history of thrift?
Kohler at least gets it.
Spruik a cut immigration by 50% and lower taxes to no more than 20% and he could be on a roll.
Turnbulls are a great family. All completely besotted with themselves and Gaia:
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/can-t-vote-liberal-in-good-conscience-alex-turnbull-blasts-climate-stance-20180827-p50018.html
Really well written piece over at city journal.
Well worth a RTWT.
Fake Capitalism
It’s not free markets that have failed us but government distortion of them
Has some great figures.
Housing subsidies that distort individual decisions also affect the biggest investment market in the world: the American housing market is worth $27.5 trillion—more than a tenth of the world’s $250 trillion in total wealth. The government, not capitalism, has determined the value of this market, which, in turn, helps determine the value of other markets: money that goes into this 11 percent of the global asset market can’t go into the other 89 percent. Home values also affect consumer spending. Someone whose home value is rising will feel freer to take on credit-card debt, for example.
Perhaps American house prices should be lower, and people should put their savings into companies that create products and jobs. Or perhaps house prices should be higher, accounting for a growing population, and people should live in smaller homes, spaced more closely together. In turn, perhaps the price of Chinese stocks would be higher, reflecting future growth, if Chinese investors did not divert money into U.S.-backed American housing debt. No one knows, because market signals get obscured.
…
Oil, gas, and coal get nearly $2 billion in direct annual subsidy, according to the Institute for Energy Research. Renewable energy gets $27 billion. Such subsidies distort energy investments, obscuring what kinds of investment the market on its own would support, and they have a dramatic effect on energy prices. When critics of capitalism denounce markets, then, they’re often making a category mistake.
Unwinnable second spot I’m afraid. Next time.
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Why in God’s name does Sky continue to have Fiona Scott on?
She was a one term pillow who only got ejected because of Abbott. She has no insight whatsoever.
Nope. Just to the wrong places.
You can find quoted interview with Morrison on last Saturdays ABC’s radio’s Australia All Over program.
Yep, pretty much the Chinese governments already stated view.
Maybe so, but you will play a big role in making the first spot winnable. Give ’em hell.
As opposed to rent seekers backing the ruinables industry. What a tool.
I note the barb about the Liberal Party having no money. Yes Alex, your dear old dad bought his PM-ship. Classy. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
From the Oz.
The bonus in Turnbull going is that we won’t have the media fawning over his extended family as they cement their roots into a range of positions within the community.
Morrison is clearly taken by Trump because he’s stopped himself from saying ‘make Australia great again’ and instead used ‘make Australian greater’. Mind you he only likes Trump’s politicking in the way he just flicks off the media. The difference between Trump and Morrison though is Trump has also got policy and has deeply thought about issues whereas Morrison is always and has been always a policy free zone. I keep telling you he prefers the politicking to the policies. It is day 4 and we have yet to hear policy direction from him. All we got is a tricky cabinet with the Photios- Turnbull fingerprint all over it.
Yes. To the Gold Coast, if I recall correctly, to check out some real estate. With a couple of spurious “meetings” thrown in to make it look legit.
I note the barb about the Liberal Party having no money. Yes Alex, your dear old dad bought his PM-ship. Classy.
Indeed. I also note his comments about how hard it would be (for him) to vote Liberal. Moreover, that two terms of Labor should see renewables achieve a 40% threshold thus making any wind back impossible. (never mind the poor bastards who have to pay the bill).
FM. What a tool. Just like his old man.
Oh, that will still happen.
At the end of the day, I don’t really care per se what is spent on one particular thing.
The problem is in total we have ongoing deficits, 600+ bn of Federal debt and 400bn+ of State debts.
I’d say we’re better if we cap (for the State and Federal governments combined) revenue at 500 bn and cap spending at 300 bn.
Pay it off over seven or so years and then cut taxes now and more when it is paid off.
People say turdball should have been in the liars party but I reckon this jerk and his seed are green elitists.
Doing business with the KLC. Blackfella mafia.
Mr. Castieau. Congratulations. I’ve been a bit critical of AC’s candidates in places but that West Australian ticket looks really strong. Well done. Don’t worry about being second place it will be hard to win a seat with the rule changes but just get out there and spruik spruik. Changing the order of business will be a long-term proposition. Get out there in the media, in the local paper, every community group you can find, Aries charity and parrot Church group comma every sporting club in Civic body. The LNP government has just switched to mini Malcolm and this is a golden opportunity to get an alternative message out particularly about what needs to be done with electricity and immigration.
Paid $795,000 “on the unplanned purchase” of a Gold Coast apartment, IIRC.
Laundry dried out. Why quit.
My ideal government would remove all references to indigenous and ethnic groups from law and government. What we have now is institutionalized racism.
Struth, don’t get into a silly discussion with the idiot dot….just keep up with your excellent posts.
Don’t forget the idiot is a potential lawyer & an open borders loon….just like scooby.
Peter Castieau: Just a heads up here.
If you follow the link to your name on the official Australian Conservatives webpage Peter Castieau & Matt Brazier join Conservatives’ WA senate ticket you end up with:
Might be my browser (although Matt Brazier’s page loads)…
I’m so glad Wyatt and Dobson have shown yet again what nasty racist pricks many Aboriginal men in positions of power are ( some exceptions like Warren Mundine) So too are a lot of the faceless black thugs that intimidate and harass Aboriginal women like Jacinta Price. These arsehole men don’t give a s*** about 4 year olds getting raped in central Australia; it’s not their mob for a start and there’s no money or power in the endeavour either.
This is touching.
Making some progress I guess.
Actually, struth never got back to me on our “leaders” being corrupt rather than stupid or unprincipled.
The absence of evidence is not proof but it tends to suggest my theory is more correct.
How many MPs arrange travel to places that are near other places? ALP seem to it alot.
This article was interesting.
Future of Wind “Uncertain” After Federal Subsidies Expire (25 Aug)
So windies in the US run their turbines for 10 years and collect a subsidy for doing so.
The when the subsidy runs out they renovate them.
So that they can get another 10 years of subsidy.
Sheesh.
Naw dot….you have been an asshole for years…sorry.
Is there any event of Devine losing it last night?
Turnbulls are a great family. All completely besotted with themselves and Gaia:
Is Turnbull Jnr, or his fund, still heavily invested in Infigen?
Remember that time somebody hacked into Christopher Pyne’s twitter account and “liked” a couple gay porn sites at 2am in the morning? Strange hack, when you think about it… did they ever catch the perpetrators?
Just asking questions.
Turdball’s chip of the block arsehole son did well out of wind power:
https://stopthesethings.com/2017/03/13/born-lucky-stars-align-perfectly-for-pms-son-with-mammoth-bet-on-wind-power-outfit-infigen/
Catholic, eh ?
The coal industry is running red hot at present, despite Daddy’s windmill obsession.
Goldman Sachs is somehow struggling on without his insight.
Robots for shearing are still too far off.
Exoskeleton suits as are being designed for paramilitary Death squads to keep the streets safe for politicians might be the go.
Having all the weight taken by the exoskeleton, and the drag done by motors means only the handpiece has to be weilded by skillfill hands.
Imagine a pub full of pissed shearing teams, all still in exoskeleton battlesuits.
That would take a bit of subtlety at closing time.
This climate change nonsense has been nothing but trouble.
I see Merkel is following Trump’s lead and is backing Germany away from Paris Accord targets and now is telling the EU Commission on CC to take a hike on it’s latest emissions brain farts.
Morrison: DUMP the Paris Accord and the RET. NOW.
Out and proud heterosexual?
My God I didn’t realise that Margot Kingston was such an absolute raving nut job conspiracy theorist. Murdoch666. Sky666. Conservative voices.
Like nobody with an ounce of common sense could not have seen that coming.
Special PM ‘envoy’ to the indig being any Anglo male, let alone a conservative Catholic monarchist, was going to be a bone of contention.
SloMo is either surrounded with confidantes with zero political radar, or they are setting TA up to get ambushed. Perhaps even physically ambushed if they go all BLM/Antifa on him.
Inter-connectors down.
Can somebody please nuke the inter-connectors, permanently.
It would force the deep south states (NSW, VIC, SA) to start making electrickery.
thefrolickingmole
#2803088, posted on August 27, 2018 at 4:44 pm
Thank you ! Thank you! Thank you! Mole!
I’ve been trying to hammer that through progressive heads for years now!
More ammunition is good ammunition.
Too nutty for Fauxfacts – off the curve, a Black Swan event of loony. I’m surprised she isn’t a regular on Teh Dumb.
Wait till they piss themselves and the suits will rust from the waist down.
After that, giant electromagnet on a chain like at the scrapper’s yard.
Hmm. There are advantages in owning a meat works or piggery.
Nothing to put in the closet.
Malcolm et al still blaming everything and everyone else else for Malcolm’s disastrous 38 polls.
C’mon! Show me a Boomer who hasn’t been there. What d’ya reckon, IT?
Link works for me Dr F.
And yea follow Kingston on Twitter and you’ll soon see she should be in locked up in a looney bin.
Shirley, it must be an even greater conspiracy than one that brought Saint Gough to his knees.
Confused Old Misfit
It is a good, well written piece with numbers and logical inferences.
I didnt extract it but the bit about the epipens (for allergic reactions) having their prices massively hiked because of a combo of monopoly suppler and government regs is a prime example of why healthcare can be rooted by “good intentions”.
Good link, Cohenite. Turnbull’s son is certainly a very lucky investor. Very lucky .
While happy to stick his Socialist nose into all manner of issues, on these explosive claims he will remain steadfastly silent?
Lots of breakdowns on Sydney rail. Luke Foley grinning about it.
I wonder how much is go-slow (oe worse) by unions? I feel as though I’ve seen all this before.
Congratulations Peter Castieau — all the very best and power to ACTeam WA
Jim Goad wins the internets for today with this title.
The Tart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Article itself is up Stimpys alley.
The actor, Billy Bennett, had starred as Argento’s son in the 2004 film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, which Argento directed. Bennett was seven at the time, and among other things, the film required him to be raped.
The pair continued a public friendship over the next ten years, frequently shouting out to one another on social media and referring to one another as “mother” and “son.”
Then, when Bennett had just turned 17, he says he and a family member visited Argento in her Marina del Rey hotel room and at some point Argento requested that the family member leave the two of them alone. He says she first performed oral sex on him and then climbed on top of him for a round of intercourse.
From Ye Olde Thredde
By the most amazing coincidence, this is exactly Chris Uhlmann’s pointed editorialising last week in Nein, when it all blew up for Waffleworth. One would almost think there is a set of scripted talking points being circulated.
I think they are trying to suggest that Jones and Hadley are stirring up their ‘flying monkey’ listeners, and then claiming there is public unrest – that they have confected.
The issue after the next election, if Labor and the Greens control both the House and the Senate, will be that they will revive the media control star chamber planned during Julia’s incumbency and use it to silence dissenting voices.
Expect an assault on ‘fake news’ and ‘Right Wing Death Beast’ politicking masquerading as opinion. And Shorten and his communications minister can point to the President of the Liberal Party as bi-partisan support.
Don’t be surprised if opinionistas wind up having to be vetted and receive some sort of license from the government before they are allowed to pontificate.
So Laura Tingle will have a license to spout in her hand four micro-seconds after the legislation passes, and there will have to be deep, long and grave consideration given to the likes of Jones, Hadley, BoltA, the Outsiders and Peta before they can use public broadcast bandwidth.
The irony will be Kermit Greiner wanting to rush to 7:30 Report to comment on this and finding himself on a pending list while his past history with ICAC is vetted in regard to his suitability to voice a public opinion.
Well done SLFs – you have just about consigned yourself in to communications exile and a totally controlled media.
After she spent a few days in Brisbane and Sydney, I met my American friend in Melbourne for a few days about three years ago. “Where are all your homeless and poor people” she asked me. Most Australians would not believe that there are poor people in the USA.
Lol
Chris Uhlmann dials it up to eleventy.
Trumble has now been “assassinated”.
No Fleeced, he didn’t want it investigated.
I’m having difficulty believing the swing in today’s Newspoll, mainly because of the primary vote figures.
Despite the large loss of support to the Libs, am I supposed to believe that it all went to the ALP? The primary vote figures are showing that the minor parties hardly budged. Really? I am not buying it.
Remember, Trumble called for his own assassination to take place last Monday. He got his wish on Friday.
Who am I?
Very generous of him.
Everyone’s mate.
Does that technically fall under euthanasia legislation?
SMH;
mUnty, RUOK?
Do you like Pina Colada?
Hmm.
It’s a mystery.
Who am I?
I’d say Sam Dastyari but…
I read that as the penetrators. Sorry.
Winner!
Posters are going up down here in Canberra for Sydney’s largest left wing conference – Socialism which is on from 31st August to 2nd September at Sydney University. Apparently you can network and plan with 500 other activists, and Dana Blanchard is a keynote speaker.
Sometimes I wish that conservatives were violent thugs like leftists, because this looks like a target-rich environment.
Funnily enough, Uhlmann made no such claims when turnbul assassinated Abbott.
John McCain celebrated with dolphins.
Dolphins at 0:31
LOL good one Ted.
PSYCHIATRIST CALLS TODAY’S LEFT ‘MENTALLY ILL’
‘Liberal Mind’ author’s extensive study explains ‘Psychological Causes of Political Madness’
With the American left, the Democratic Party and the establishment news media displaying ever-more bizarre symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome, here comes a veteran psychiatrist making the case that the mental-emotional world of leftists really is tantamount to a mental disorder.
“Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the acclaimed book, “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.” “Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.”
While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to “the vast right-wing conspiracy.”
For decades he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.
Rossiter says today’s liberalism, as displayed by the likes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton throughout the previous administration, as well as by today’s Democratic Party leaders and they increasingly hysterical “mainstream media,” can only be understood as a psychological disorder.
“A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do,” he says. “A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation’s citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do.”
Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:
creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.
“The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind,” he says. “When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.”
Fake News.
Sussan Ley has never been a shearer. Sussan Ley has been a shearers’ cook.
“Terrorist Attack” Manual Targeting Atlanta Hospital Found At New Mexico Jihad Compound
Waffles already dropped a million primary votes in 2016. The Lieboral base left months and months ago. They are now dropping the rusted-ons.
A poll taken in the middle of last weeks media storm is essentially meaningless. The test will be whether the primary vote moves up from 1 in 3 support for the Lieborals.
You could just let a tr4nny know what the leftist thought about them, and stand back to film…
Breaking news. Well done, the organizers. Lets see Victoria Police take them to Court.
Well said Mr Pellowe!
Did any Lib Party member back you up?
For regional television viewers who are waiting for the alternative, Sky News, I suspect free-to-air broadcasts will begin this Sunday. Tune to Channel 83 and for those in Northern NSW Channel 53.
Up you ABC!
In diving terms that’d be a reverse Rachel Dolezal with pike.
Gab
#2803153, posted on August 27, 2018 at 5:53 pm
Malcolm et al still blaming everything and everyone else else for Malcolm’s disastrous 38 polls.
Looks like a book coming up and a world tour “promoting” it. A whinge and whine, finger pointing excursion, demanding the pity of onlookers.
zyconoclast, thats a good article.
Have you seen the old Sarah Thompson one
Raging Against Self Defense – A Psychiatrist Examines The Anti-Gun Mentality
I found it very helpful – it distinguished defense mechanisms from mental illness, for a start.
And reading a book right know on modern studies in habit formation and lizard brains… the drugs that lefties generate in their formerly perfectly ordinary brains when they go all shouty are utterly addictive rewards, training them never to think again.
This demands a supergroup … Hillary, Julia and Malcolm.
It will be called the Whine Tour.
Blot has a little “compare and contrast” post on his blog today.
Congratulations on the preselection Peter. I have followed your posts and believe you are a fine candidate. I don’t have as much faith in some senate candidates in other states, but the WA team looks impressive.
Thanks, Leigh.
Congratulations, Peter C.
I was going to say the White Whine Tour, but the Red Whine Tour works better.
Chateau Stalin 1953.
Can anyone explain why the appointment of a man to Cabinet who is not even qualified to sit in Parliament is not a scandal in the media?
Breaking news. Lord Waffles throws his teddy bear out of his pram.
Looks like a book coming up and a world tour “promoting” it. A whinge and whine, finger pointing excursion, demanding the pity of onlookers.
Well of course there is a book coming up, I began writing it two years ago, it explains why after spending 2mil of my own money to get this cretinous bunch of losers over the line at the election, some obnoxious clowns want to question my brilliance, I can tell you without doubt, that Lucy and I are unanimous in our assertion that all you plebs should all be on your knees in gratitude,etc,etc, love, Mal.
Madame lucy has retired to the fainting couch
Turdbull the younger is being comforted by one of mummy’s servants.
For heaven’s sake, somebody keep John Howard the F away from him.
In which I explain how the Australian people proved themselves totally unworthy of my leadership, and how I accepted the Shorten’s Governments offer of Presidency of the new Republic.
Dumped prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is reportedly set to quit federal parliament You mean that there is somebody out there that will be surprised about that?
So true. Believe me.
Mandy Vanwarmer and John Hewson will steer him in the right direction.
ABC 7.30 blaming the Downfall on Alan Jones. Never saw that coming.
Turnbull out of parliament. John Hewson hardest hit.
Salt the earth by flipping Wentworth on the way out.
Nuclear projection. He sounds a bit nervous.
All that false bonhomie after he was knifed… there’s only so long a sociopath can put on the facade.
Abbott destroyed him again! Didn’t even have the numbers and he still destroyed him!
Any one who doubts Pauline has got guts should consider she’s on Q& fucking A tonight. I’m in 2 minds about whether she should appear at this dump. I mean there’s no one there she could convert; the audience is wall to wall lefties, freaks, commies, malcontents, queers, lesos, greenies and soft-cock pseudo conservatives. Who in that bunch is going to vote for her and her constituency would have an esky through the screen if they watched it longer than 5 minutes.
Truly we are governed by the stupidest people on earth.
How are you going to keep them in the regions? Microchip them? Ankle bracelets?
As if the registration na don’t not have enough social problems. Filling them with third worlders is a recipe for disaster.
ALP call a vote when MT quits? Convention not applicable?
“As if the registration na don’t not have enough social problems”
Autocomplete truly is a bitch.
..
Unemployment rate in Adelade currently a touch under 7%.
Adelaide would make a lovely third world ghetto.
Tonight’s Q&A Panel
George Christensen – Nationals MP for Dawson
Cathy O’Toole – Labor MP for Herbert
Larissa Waters – Queensland Greens
Pauline Hanson – Leader, One Nation
Bob Katter – Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party
That was meant to say “regions”.
Worst Lieboral leader now up for debate? Or do you mean his place on the ALPBC speed-dial?
There are mental asylums with less crazy.
Put me down for 42 in interruptions lotto, will you?
A better solution to Adelaide’s problems would be to deport the 7% unemployable rather than import more wastrels.
PHON on Q&A. She likes to play the left.
A pair of Vietnamese nationals found in mangroves in Far North Queensland went crab fishing with two Cairns men before being taken to authorities investigating the first people smuggling venture reached Australia in 1400 days, one of the fisherman says.
As Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton confirmed the Vietnamese boat found on Sunday was suspected of being part of a people “smuggling venture,’’ Cairns air conditioner installer Peter Ward told of finding the men on the banks of the croc-infested Daintree River.
“We picked up a couple hanging out of the mangroves there and brought them up the creek,” Mr Ward said.
“We had a bit of a chat, got to know them a little bit, took our time and went crabbing.”
He said the men did not speak English well, but “we got a few messages across” — including the fact that they would be handed over to authorities.
“We apologised — ‘This is it, this is your last chance of freedom’. We just took our time.”
He said he came across the pair near the mouth of the Daintree — not far from where a fishing vessel was found on Sunday morning.
Mr Dutton acknowledged the fact the boat reached the mainland suggested there had been some sort of failure in border protection systems.
Link with amusing comments
After Fraser died, Hewson had a monopoly.
He will now have to bone up on “competitive forces” from his Economics 101 texts.
Given the lack of services, the last thing the regions need are hordes of unskilled migrants with very little English, and regarding unskilled work as “demeaning.”
Liberals will still hold a majority 75/149.
I’m so glad organisers of the Laura Southern event are telling VICPOL to shove their 68k bill up their arse. If Vicpol want to fundraise out of these events they can direct their efforts to the groups organising the violent protests in future.
Have you seen the old Sarah Thompson one
Raging Against Self Defense – A Psychiatrist Examines The Anti-Gun Mentality
I found it very helpful – it distinguished defense mechanisms from mental illness, for a start.
No and thanks.
Not sure.
I am seeking a legal opinion from Laura Jayes QC.
“You peasants don’t deserve me! Look what I gave you: the world’s most expensive electricity, a new fleet of dud subs, an education system where the kids can’t count and spell but my goodness can they change genders! Lucy, we’re out of here!”
Now 7.30 is promoting Spike Lee, emphasising he is a critic of Donald Trump.
Can anyone explain why the appointment of a man to Cabinet who is not even qualified to sit in Parliament is not a scandal in the media?
Because he identifies as someone who is qualified.
(You are talking about Friedeggburger)
Alan Tudge, who will take responsibility for cities, urban infrastructure and the new population portfolio, says his two greatest challenges will be finding the right incentives and conditions to encourage more migrants to settle in smaller capital cities and regional areas, and accelerating national infrastructure.
So Lucy has resigned and gifted the job to the Tudge boy?
Let’s import more people so there are more jobs housing and feeding people and pretending to deal with the social problems more people bring. And my favourite: more people standing around dressed in flouro holding “I’m a bit slow” signs.
Why not? With the higest energy prices anywhere, the worst education system outside of a country ending in “stan” or names derivated from “free” or “liberty”, ratbag unions, and spastic politicians, it isn’t as if we have a competitive advantage in anything else.
Just sent Q&A a question:
“If we had nuclear power plants in the states we could use desalination plants and make the deserts bloom with fresh water pumped in from the sea. Why don’t we go with this approach?”
Are there any other kind of celebrities with an opinion?
Shy Ted
#2803196, posted on August 27, 2018 at 6:37 pm
That’s so laughable and at the same time so sad.
With that crew interruptions will crack the ton surely.
The ABC should pay them to stay for a day or two and just keep filming them. The standard of ABC comedy will then lift. Ten fold.
Well it’s nearly twelve noon and it’s goodbye to Norway after two weeks here in the land of tunnels and bridges. Dey like their tunnels, says Hairy at the wheel after we have driven more than forty km in winding underground warrens through mountains if you tote the lot up for yesterday’s tourist vistas, although when actually on view the fjiords around Stavenger and the pretty drive back up the tourist route to Bergen were spectacular. Especially the constant waterfalls, some very high indeed. We heard that many Norwegian waterfalls have been turned into turbines, signal to the fact that they don’t mind destroying the environment when it suits them. You can round a pretty fjiord and suddenly be in the middle of a huge industrial oil and gas complex. Overall it reminds us of Hokkaido in Japan – very much a uniculture, tremendously neat and quite uniform in its architectural and painted style – all set in a pristine pseudo-wilderness of high mountains and encroaching cold. A good place for two weeks, after that tedium might set in and the alcohol prices start to look attractive regardless of price, as a first order necessity. Economists have a term for, when demand is such that you have no choice but to pay up, but I’ve forgotten what it is. I ask Hairy, but he simply says be careful what you say about economics on an economics blog, Lizzie. This after he booked us into another Airbnb place which was very nice indeed even if run by a total green and neatness obsessive. I had a ten minute lecture from mine host on the four kitchen garbage bins! 🙂
We have started occasional use of Airbnb after Notafan’s recommendation of the system. It has its pluses and minuses; often excellent accommodation far cheaper than five star hotels but similar prices to many tourist hotels if you go for the better quality Airbnb’s; but you do get room to spread out suitcases for repacking and you can get some washing done. This one last night had fjiord views and quality furnishings but the same obnoxious stove topfingertop press glass hotplate system (even our green host couldn’t properly work it) so we had take-out Thai again. On our next stop, Bruges (driving today from Brussells), we are hotelling it in the city centre for 3 days. More convenient although they charge a lot for parking.
Hope I am not ODing you on this trivial information but it may be useful for future travelling Cats.
Minister responsible for extending the population Ponzi scheme by dropping people from helicopters into the outback for the economic stimulus package effect.
Comrades.
Did someone say hate crime hoax?
Children made up story about white man urinating on black child: police
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A story about a white man urinating on a 5-year-old black child and calling her a racial slur was fabricated, police said.
Grand Rapids police and prosecutors late Friday, Aug. 24 said they determined the story was not valid and said no charges would be issued against a 60-year-old man arrested following the initial report on Wednesday.
Police said several children, all 7 or younger, were playing together sometime before 6 p.m. Wednesday when one of the children urinated on the 5-year-old girl.
Kent County prosecutors said the parents of the children, in talking with them, ultimately determined the children “concocted the story to avoid trouble.”
“We appreciate the conscientiousness of the parents in bringing the matter to the attention of the police, and continuing to ask their children questions as new evidence was obtained,” prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said the 60–year-old man had a “verifiable alibi” from other people who vouched for his whereabouts.
The allegations, when first reported late Wednesday, caused concern across the community and NAACP leaders on Friday said the incident should be considered both a hate crime and sex assault.
In the initial report, the children told police they were playing hide-and-go-seek along Courtney Street NW, just west of Tamarack Avenue, when a man urinated on the girl through a chain-link fence.
The suspect was a person who lived in the neighborhood and did odd jobs.
“The community and members of the media were understandably interested and concerned about the allegations, Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker said.
“But this is a prime example of why it’s so important to wait until all the evidence has been gathered and the criminal investigation has been completed before jumping to any conclusions,” he said.
Becker said the children involved with making the complaint were first interviewed by trained specialists with the Children’s Advocacy Center, but they didn’t admit the truth until later when their parents talked with them further.
A person does not have to be a member of Parliament to be appointed as a Federal Minister.
Cannot believe how butthurt the ABC is about Trumble getting the flick. The hysteria ABC journos are whipping themselves into is astonishing:
Mathias Cormann could have made one phone call to change the course of history
I saw a kid eat their own snot this morning. They could have changed the course of history by cleaning out the other nostril, too.
What kind of rubbish headline is this? And does anyone seriously believe Probyn’s stupid story that Trumble’s downfall was such a close-run thing? You would think shrieking harpies like Probyn wanted to vote for Trumble or something.
They haven’t exactly picked the rational side for the so called righties. In fact I would say there are five socialists there. Will no one speak for free enterprise?
McCain’s Senate Seat to Be Filled by Gubernatorial Appointment
Among the names that have been mentioned recently are Barbara Barrett, a former U.S. ambassador to Finland and the wife of retired Intel Corp. Chief Executive Craig Barrett, as well as Kirk Adams, chief of staff to Mr. Ducey. A name that has been floated as a long shot is former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, who was close to Mr. McCain.
Three other names have circulated: Michael Bidwill, president of the Arizona Cardinals and son of the team’s principal owner; Karrin Taylor Robson, who runs a land-use firm in Arizona and was appointed to the Arizona Board of Regents in 2017 by the governor; and Mr. McCain’s wife, Cindy. Her name is often mentioned, though conservatives have bristled at the prospect—a factor that could weigh on Mr. Ducey.
I was at a hospital a week ago. A massive building site.
Looking around, my guess would be most of the construction workers were flown in from China.
Meanwhile, four hour wait to see a doctor.
Someone bloody explain it to me.
I want to know.
Exactly what benefits AT ALL to anyone currently living here is it to import more people?
We can’t even train the people required to build the damn infrastructure.
We are now so uncompetitive we lose out to the Chinese at buiding hospitals IN AUSTRALIA.
Boo Radley?
He never voted LNP anyway, and neither did his dad.
So the ABC’s premise is that everybody knew Dutton never had the numbers but turnbull quit anyway?
Bullshit.
Marcia Langton lives in Alice Springs, doesn’t she?
The longest tunnel we took was an old one of 11.5 km in length, quite dark and I was somewhat anxious that no other traffic was taking it either way as we progressed through it. It ended at a ferry terminal where we must missed the last Sunday ferry but one out of the place, as all the traffic was lined up in rows waiting, having done the tunnel in good time. We spent an hour hanging about for the late ferry and then drove to just outside Bergen for the Airbnb apartment. The host hadn’t had the foresight to put his street number on his house, which was perched on a cliff with what at first seemed no parking and quite a way off the street listed in the address. I was running around in the rain checking letterboxes while Hairy fumed in the car blocking the street. Perils of Airbnb, I guess.
Blame Slartibartfast.
Mmmyes.
No numbers in support on Thursday night but they voted 45:40 on Friday to ditch Trumble.
Yes, indeed, Bruce. 🙂
That’s not right.
Instead of blaming immigration for Mollie Tibbetts’ death, blame misogyny
Working titles for Turnbull’s autobiography:
My Brilliant Career
101 Ways to Kill a Cat.
Ignore him, cohenite. He’s going to start crapping on as if Westminster conventions are irrelevant to the functioning of our parliamentary democracy.
The next ABC storyline …
zyconoclast – Michigan story typical of racism in USA today.
Mollie Tibbetts and the Lower Alien Crime Rate Lie
Open border advocates say that immigrants come here to do jobs Americans won’t do. Well, excuse me, but we have Americans all too willing to kill their brethren. Murder is a job American criminals are quite willing to do and to those who say immigrants commit crime at a lower rate than American citizens, I say that all that proves is that we have enough criminals — we don’t need to import more.
The blood of Kate Steinle and Mollie Tibbetts and others is on the hands of open border advocates and the sanctuary city loons who provide no sanctuary for the American citizen victims of illegal alien criminals.
Even if it were true that illegal aliens commit crimes, including murder, at rates lower than American citizens, that would be irrelevant. The murder rate for illegal aliens should be zero because none of them should be here and the indisputable fact is that Jamiel Shaw Jr., Kate Steinle, and Mollie Tibbetts would be alive today if the illegal aliens who slew them were still staring at the other side of a border wall liberals refuse to build.
Document: Nancy Pelosi Will Destroy Trump Presidency with over 100 Investigations If Dems Win House
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/26/document-nancy-pelosi-democrats-will-destroy-trump-presidency-with-over-100-investigations-if-dems-win-house/
The Dems have nothing to offer the American people.
AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION
64. Ministers of State
The Governor-General may appoint officers to administer such departments of State of the Commonwealth as the Governor-General in Council may establish.
Such officers shall hold office during the pleasure of the Governor-General. They shall be members of the Federal Executive Council, and shall be the Queen’s Ministers of State for the Commonwealth.
Ministers to sit in Parliament
After the first general election no Minister of State shall hold office for a longer period than three months unless he is or becomes a senator or a member of the House of Representatives.
So for three months they don’t even have to be elected MP’s.
Are you going to be true tourists and do the Bruges boat trip around the old city?
It’s a beaut place. I remember it every time I come home – bought some ceramic house numbers in a matching frame. You can silicone them straight onto the brickwork.
CalliTip – buy chocolate. Lots of chocolate. 🙂
Death Giraffe – move to Perth. The Chinks won’t be building hospitals here (or probably anything else) for a couple of decades after John Holland’s efforts at the Perth Childrens Hospital.
I think we are going to have to give Trumble the wooden stake treatment.
Or burn he sleeping quarters (the crypt).
Any other tips for dealing with the undead?
I am the Greatest
Turnbull is Greater
Humble
On – line petition, protesting the decision of Fatty Ashton’s circus, to invoice the organizers of the Lauren Southern tour.