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What I know about women’s fashion could be written in its entirety on the back of an envelope, but Julie Bishop has always struck me as being stunningly well dressed, regardless of the occasion.
Elegance personified, IMO.
Canberra Mid-Winter Ball In Pictures.
Has Mrs Abbott taken up her husband’s exercise regime?
She’s looking very fit.
Gillard actually looked great.
Tanya, love – you don’t have the arms for that Delphic number.
WTF is lurch wearing? Lord almighty.
Mr&Mrs Wong have that million dollar smile. Handsome couple.
LOL. You beat me to it, JC.
What, she has no name?
Adam Ant and Mrs. What a sad, sad looking pair.
I agree, Pedro. She always goes for the feminine tailored look in day wear. I do like her frock except for the feathers. Bit too fussy for my taste but she looks elegant. And she carries herself well.
John McTernan – ahahahahaha.
Actually, The Slapper looks pretty good. Anyone red blooded man who says otherwise is bullshitting. She actually scrubs up pretty nicely. Shame about the handbag.
The PM and Tim scrubbed up very well at the Mid Winter Ball.
Somebody should mention to Joe Hockey that “black tie” does not mean you wear a black tie.
Yea.. what’s he doing, going to a funeral? Dress up you dill.
Snap, JC
No Snap, Pedro.. I was actually replying/agreeing with your comment.
Look at Lurch willya. Four dead, 200 houses burnt down wearing some statement jacket sporting a big smile.
Not at all. It’s quite contemporary to wear a black tie, still I prefer men to wear the bow tie version.
Darn, Wrong link above.
http://www.blacktieguide.com/Contemporary/Contemp_Neckwear.htm
Why is Bishop always be herself in these pics?
You should have left is as the wrong link. Your new one has that fat pig Algore in it.
Thanks.
JC I was referring to our 12.53 comment about the PM scrubbing up well.
From CL’s link oic #10, please tell me that Joel Fitzgibbon is not gurgling down plonk straight from the bottle (as well as wearing a black tie instead of “black tie”).
Oh Okay Pedro. Comments are flying thick and fast. . Lol
I notice gillard has reverted to her contact lenses, ditching the Magical Vote glasses.
What sort of New Age barbarian would wear a conventional black tie with a dinner suit?
Have they no shame?
Black tie means bow tie in my book.
And Wayne, ditch the RMs for a good pair of (preferably patent leather) shoes for a ball, doofus.
Latika Bourke [email protected] 3h
PM JG to Press Gallery Ball – to quote Arnie its not hasta la vista baby but ‘I’ll be back.’
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And here‘s a pic of Latika.
Gawdalmighty. I just saw Lurch’s version of formal wear.
Makes Hockey and Fitzgibbon look the very epitome of sartorial splendour.
A long black tie should only be worn at funerals by the bereaved and not at “black tie” events where a bow tie is called for.
That is a CRACKING idea!
Peter Garrett inspired by Hugo Drax:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rz7BZdEc1E
Well, that’s it, then.
Kevin Rudd will be Prime Minister of Australia next week.
ABC, Fairfax and the tween cohort that watches Twitter and The Project will all enthusiastically hop on board the Kevni train as he launches the whistlestop The Wonder and Popularity of Me Tour and there’ll be ‘pressure on Abbott’ stories planted in all newspapers by next weekend.
QF spent $10 million setting up a customer service training centre in Sydney in 2009 to try to end its heaven-and-hell attitude to its customers.
Seems not to have reached all its employees even in early 2013. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
I blame Mad Men for the resurgence of the skinny black tie. Now every wanker’s trying to channel the Don Draper zeitgeist – two prominent examples springing to mind being Tom Waterhouse and Adam Hills. They have plenty of company, too.
Lurch actually looks like the bellhop at a North Korean hotel.
Some more sartorial elegance..http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/06/18/Anti-Pervert-Hairy-Leggings-Catch-Fire-Among-Chinese-Girls
Which 21st century mega star said this about a rape case?
The assessment of notable peers:
The self-assessment:
By the powers given (ha!) assumed when no-one was looking and and/or nicked by me from the VRWC (and the fact that only I know where the Sumerian mead is hidden), Gab is now promoted to Senior Minionette, VRWC (Australian Division) and given this entirely functional flamethrower as her badge of office.
The perspipacious among you will notice it comes all beautifully wrapped in a very nice tank of discipline.
How did Graham Perrett get his black eye?
Angry voter or fending off a Rudd supporter?
I wondered the same thing and apparently he got kneed in the eye playing rugby.
Julie Bishop always looks classy, the Prime Minister however looks like a 20’s gangster’s moll.
I wonder if Mr Pliberserk brought along some of the party favours he’s well known for.
Depending on how events pan out, in a few months that photo could be of the Federal Labor Opposition Leader & her husband Chief Public Servant to the NSW Liberal Premier.
Is it time yet that O’Farrell has a think about this?
I’d post this in the abortion thread, but there is no text box there…
Leigh now very afraid.
What? Were the Olympic “SORRY” pants in the wash? It’s time he gave them a run again.
The stoopid, peoples, it burns…
Hmmmm… So what happened next?
Unfriggingbelievable…
Marge’s off-the-shoulder number just looked as if it needed hitching up. Too much fall in it. Would have been a nightmare to wear – like having on an old bra on where the straps keep irritating by falling down. She still managed to look elegant in it, quite a feat.
Some of those brightly coloured shiny numbers on display, with frills and bits everywhere, I shall pass over without further comment. Helen Carr’s necklace was a stunner though and she looked great, especially with Bob Carr doing that little ‘feel’ of his cuff-links that Prince Charles does so well.
Julie Bishop looked supremely elegant, as always. The feathering at the hem stopped the dress from being just a little bit boring and severe. Older ladies do well to put a light covering over the arms; points to Bishop for this. Plumper ladies like Plibersek should not do Delphic, because of the arm issue, and the drawn in waist; Empire style is best there imho. Well noted, CL.
Lucy Turnbull should get new glasses, those look like nana’s. Or contacts. Malcolm is looking less gaunt, and more like his old self. They both looked very approachable, one can see the appeal.
Julia Gillard actually looked good. True, the gangster’s moll comes too readily to mind with the smooth red bangs over the forehead, but a definite improvement. She is slimmer now and manages the black lace look well. Credit where credit is due.
Men who do not take the opportunity to put on a full dinner suit, with tied bow tie and studs and cufflinks, show they have no appreciation of what makes women swoon. Who can resist a man in such gear? Joe Hockey, had you put that on, with your new sizing, you would be definitely be the Ladies Choice of the night.
As a final note from your fashion correspondent, photography is often not kind to facelifts and there were quite a few in evidence. Heads down, ladies, to avoid the scraggy under-the-chin see-my-facelift look, but not too far down if you have had cheek implants or they will shine like little table tennis balls. Difficult, and sorry to mention it.
Unfortunately with the left, no it is not.
You think?
This is from the guy who launched the “War on Seven-Up”
There’s a fine frock.
Lizzie,
Interesting comments. The men by and large, were embarrassingly, appallingly attired. But then I’d expect nothing less from such a ridiculous assortment of drongoes.
Turnip McTurdman in particular, should have been summarily executed.
Attracted to the tartan Sinc?
Yes, I do think so. This type of staggering, unrelenting stupidity is quite simply unacceptable from so called public figures.
Not. Good. Enough.
Politics is a special olyimpics event for ugly people.
It’s, Gold, Gold, Gold, peoples!
“Tanya, love – you don’t have the arms for that Delphic number.
Depending on how events pan out, in a few months that photo could be of the Federal Labor Opposition ”
I will seriously move to another country if she becomes PM.
I don’t claim to be a genius, but I will not submit to the rule of an imbecile. Her and Fatty Roxon are literally too stupid to be my PM.
I always thought CL was over-egging it by naming ‘Leftism’ a mental illness but reports such as this have slowly convinced me of its veracity:
Sinc, Scottish formal dress can be quite appealing to da ladies too.
Surprisingly manly, in fact.
Lizzie – yes I know. I have one too.
Yeah, noot on Mcternan though. I thought he was the hired comedy relief for the evening.
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Ooooh Lovely, shiny new flamethrower. Thanks Mk. Good for lefty roasting, figuratively speaking, (sure, let’s go with that).
Tanya Pliberjerk as PM?
And we thought Krudd and TLS were train wreck governments
Lipstick on a pig.
I think Marge might well become Australia’s best loved First Lady.
Exactly James.
You’d have to act against your conscience and professional opinion and give me some nembutal. I imagine many would go down this dark path.
But look here doctor, wouldn’t this nucleus of survivors be so grief-stricken and anguished that they’d, well, envy the dead and not want to go on living?
Perhaps I’d be better off heading down to the cow doctor and getting some green dream and not putting you through such an ethical dilemma.
My perception of some ‘doomsday machines’ would be Pilbersek and Roxon’s barely functioning minds.
The only fate worse than this would be Swan as PM. This is why a “Labor leadership struggle” scares the living daylights out of me.
What a bone chilling concept. It is as terrifying as Christine Milne being elevated to the Ministry.
my take on the Ball fashions,
Mrs Abbott has lost some kilos, she looked very good at the ball with the simple straight black dress. The neckline especially looked very elegant. Julie Bishop looked sassy and happy, a great look. J. Gillard looked okay, a bit 1940’s looking though.
Peter Gartett looked idiotic, what a foolish man. Some of the Labor women had dresses without sleeves, bad move for the plump ones.
Hedley Thomas hits it for a six in this interview wherein he scolds the ABC’s idea of “journalism”.
Snippet:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/about_the_abcs_defence_of_its_pet_billionaire/
There should have been studs and links.
Anyone wearing a fake bow tie should’ve shouted the bar.
Being winter, anyone wearing a cummerbund instead of a vest shouldn’t have been granted any privacy when herded to the library with a Webley and
the whisky decantera UDL.Good assesment, Candy. I especially liked Bishop’s frock in that is was an Ice Blue number. hehehe.
As Billy Connolly put it, “We come from a country where the men wear skirts with no knickers, I tell you we fucking SHALL!” (Referring to Calvinism – ‘thou shalt not’…etc)
Are you kidding? Swan would be an awesome PM. With him at the helm, the Labor primary vote could easily get into the teens, and The Nationals would have a real shot at forming the opposition.
They turfed out a PM before the end of his first term and they’re about to repeat history. The “Faceless Men”, scene 13, act 2.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/unions-set-to-abandon-julia-gillard-their-floundering-skipper/story-fni0cx12-1226666542549
Margie Abbot looks so much like my neighbour it is uncanny.
And now for the Midwinter Ball goss from CC:
Parliament’s Mid-Winter Ball had a French imperial theme, but talking to Labor figures, it felt like the last days of Rome. Even the camp theatrics of entertainer Bob Downe could barely lift the veil of gloom from Labor MPs and advisers. Still, Julia Gillard made the best of the night, delivering a humorous speech that took the Mickey out of her detractors (“Don’t you know Alan, you can’t kill a witch!”) and herself (“It was pretty hard to get the chain mail on under this costume.”) She concluded with some words from new pal Arnold Schwarzenegger: “I’ll be back.” Abbott said he’d forsaken his beloved blue tie for the occasion.
Frock report: Gillard looked radiant in a Carla Zampatti gown and evening jacket by Perri Cutten, with a fashion disaster narrowly averted when a woman wearing the same dress was steered away from the PM. First Bloke Tim Mathieson – who was seated between the PM and Greens Leader Christine Milne – oozed machismo in a classic dinner suit. Policy and fashion correspondent Lauren Wilson reports Margie Abbott wore a navy velvet gown while Julie Bishop wore a Gatsby-inspired silver blue dress by Perth-based designer Isabel Aujoulet. The PM’s chief spinner John McTernan was in Braveheart guise, donning a kilt for the occasion.
Svelte power couple Paul Howes and Qantas executive Olivia Wirth were also in attendance. Howes, the workers’ friend, expressed shock at the plight of waiting staff, who were forced to dress in period costume. But ultimately they weren’t Howes’s problem. “They’re with United Voice,” the AWU national secretary said.
Much more at the link: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/capital-circle/unions-will-accept-rudd/story-fn59nqgy-1226666637512
Craig Thomson is hosting a fundraiser to raise money for his legal defence, advertising dishevelled Labor bard Bob Ellis as his headline act. Donations to his fighting fund are by direct deposit or cheque only. No credit cards please. – CC
He’s also been sending out emails to journalists for donations.
Next Thursday, Gab. It will be over. I’ll be very surprised if Rudd gets the leadership, though.
Interestingly, I’ll be at a function at that Neo-Brutalist monstrosity (Parly House) on the Wednesday evening. Some other CCC™ reps will be there as well.
Have to see if any lobotomised labor numpties (BIRM) are pacing the corridors, mobile phone planted to the ear, repeating “Maaaaaate” at high frequency…
Really? In today’s OZ.
“PM to visit Indonesia for Asylum talks”.
She’s doing a runner?
Will SBY let her in?
She won’t have any problem getting on a backload from Christmas Island.
WTF? Macquarie dictionary been rewritten again?
Piggy howes? Svelte?
You frigging clowns.
CC often takes the mickey…
Shorten is already been on the phone organising a replacement leader. The numbers will have been counted by then.
Andrew,
Do you really think a third person will step up to the plate to take over the leadership? How will they convince Ms Gillard to stand down? She’s wedded to that job.
Candy, Everyone in Canberra hates Rudd.
I’ll pay that.
But of course they did:
Wow. Tony Soprano – that is, James Gandolfini – dead at 51.
Heart attack in Rome.
Stultifera Navis
As Gillard flounders deep in pools
of tears, complaining that her mules
in caucus are bereft of tools
whilst shrieking that she’ll fund State schools,
K. Rudd won’t chose between two stools
but, undecided, sits and drools.
And all this while the planet cools.
Come, all aboard the ship of fools!
Scylla aut Charybdis
Labor has a simple choice:
the cloying or the strident voice;
the barking Tearer of the shore,
the certain Sucker of before;
but, he or she, each option must
produce for voters more disgust.
Charybdis, Scylla, either one
ensures for years the party’s done.
Mk50
Oh, just BTW? I spent some years working co-operatively with DIMIA (as it was then) on this very issue. Quite a few people over there are professional associates or people I have worked with in the past, in other areas and in other agencies. That’s why I instantly knew you were lying, and could go straight to the reports.
Sweet. With all that inside knowledge, and your impeccable access to statistics, you should have no problem in finding the following statistics in reference to asylum seekers who arrive on boats.
1. Provide a breakdown on country of origin of boat arrivals 2001 – 2013
2. Provide a breakdown of religious affiliation of boat arrivals 2001 – 2013
3. Provide details of criminal convictions of boat arrivals while resident in Australia and outside detention centres 2001 – 2013
4. Provide details of convictions for terrorist related offences of boat arrivals since 2001 – 2013
That should be no trouble for someone with such vital inside knowledge and access to “associates”. Thanks in anticipation…..
Obama’s Nazi state gets even worse: FBI now using drones over US soil to spy on citizens.
brc,
You show some brilliance. Swan could destroy the ALP whereas Gillard only trashed it.
Imagine however if he becomes PM and wins elections.
You lied number, piss off.
Superb, Deadman.
Rarely have Charybdis and Scylla been more aptly deployed in relation to our politics.
Four stars.
Labradors bite him.
Children run and hide.
Birds fall from the sky.
He’s eeeevil.
Mark said.
You lied number, piss off.
Really? You would be interested in the truth, then.
From that article –
Arguments to process asylum-seekers offshore have only recently shifted primarily to the virtuous claims of protecting people from the risk of drowning. It used to be primarily about penalising queue jumpers, stopping the hordes of arrivals and protecting Australian sovereignty. Never mind that by international standards arrival numbers are very low and Australian sovereignty has never been at risk.
Candy, she wouldn’t want to be humiliated in any leadership ballot where the party clearly does not support her. She would stand down imo if the numbers were clearly there.
Sorry to toy with a masterpiece Deadman, I was just having a hard time trying to imagine the caucus being bereft of tools. Faculties yes, tools no.
Even the ever so ‘umble Rudd 2.0?
CL – you say Gillard looked great? You used the word “she” so I’m not sure…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-20/gillard-to-visit-indonesia/4767018
As long as I can see skin, I’m not happy.
Bob, re your link- he ain’t dubbed van Wrongselen for nothing.
Julie Bishop looked great last night. Far better than Julia.
Andrew, that’s like comparing a draught horse to a thoroughbred.
bereft of tools v. are tools
Huckleberry, the attempted joke was that Gillard’s male ministers, the mules, have been emasculated as well as having inadequate devices.
Dot, please don’t feed the troll.
Andrew, that’s like comparing a
draught horsedead donkey to a thoroughbred.I understood the reference Deadman, but tools is a better description of the entire caucus. We can’t forget that Pliberserk, kd wong, nanny Roxon and the like are also part of the caucus.
Could this stupid man just shut-up:
Can’t really comment.
Didn’t see the swimsuit section.
Our money is being used to launch an ABC trick designed to turn voters to the left on September 14:
RTWT
I like it and admit I didn’t get the real meaning. Henceforth, it shall be known as bereft of tools. – By Order, Senior Minionette, VRWC, and Chief Operating Flamethrower.
FMD Tom, that is unbelievable………
Tom, you ought to send that to Bolt.
He should have been thrown out of the country and banned from ever returning. What an arrogant, insulting knowall.
And dangerous. With all that power, he’s a turbocharged version of the Lying Slapper.
Barack Obama out Bolsheviks the Bolshevisks:
Funny how he never says these sorts of things when he’s on US soil.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-if-catholics-have-their-schools-and-buildings-and-protestants-have-theirs
Funny, I don’t recall Obama calling for an end to Islamic education in Islamic schools, you know like the one he attended as a kid.
Rabz
I will be in the sheep paddock next Wednesday night for a doo as well. If we’re all in the Big House, we should make known ? I’ll be incognito, wearing a berberry deerstalker.
Pickles – I’ll provide some details closer to the evening.
Hey SFB, thought you’d love this:
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/low_temps_no_worries/
Our money is being used to launch an ABC trick designed to turn voters to the left on September 14:
Quick – break out the tinfoil hats.
No worries.
As Mark Steyn put it, If you miss one beheading story, there’ll be another one along in a minute.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/an_incident_at_a_property/
I’m guessing he is a moderate muslim.
“If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden—that too encourages division and discourages cooperation,” the US president said.
So if that’s his quote – show me where he calls for an “end to Catholic Education”.
Ever occurred that he might be calling for an end to segregated schools – you know, as happened in the Southern states of the USA not all that long ago?
Man has meltdown over burger order at Wendy’s
No, no. it’s not Pieman Shorten.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/food/man-has-meltdown-over-burger-order-at-wendy8217s/story-fni0dgid-1226666265484 h/t Blair.
AFAIK there is no enforced segregation in Northern Ireland … its voluntary, you know?
Comment on SDA re the MOTUS.
The Integrated education movement in Northern Ireland has been under way since 1992. It was established by parents tired of sectarian conflict, in an effort to change entrenched attitudes contributing to fear and division.
Unlike the situation in this country, most Catholic schools won’t enroll Protestants, and most Protestant schools won’t enroll Catholics.
Given the history, sounds like common sense to me…
Yes because she did look great.
All right, Huckleberry Chunkwot , just for you:
You must avoid the big red box!
The caucus is a paradox:
so soft of purpose, hard as rocks,
it gives but cannot take hard knocks;
though not right-thinking, orthodox;
now forcing gloom on naïve flocks
of how the “carbon” bomb tick-tocks;
prescribing keys but banning locks;
it’s full of—but bereft of—cocks.
Also at your link, Rudiau:
By Niall Ferguson.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/the-decline-and-129.html
Fairfax columnist tries to lay out reasons why we should vote for Abbott:
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/abbott-the-thinking-persons-prime-minister-20130619-2oj68.html
Ends up writing a thousand words on why he will be a disaster.
Five posts already today over at Dogshit Today. There’s a lesson there for blog administrators: banning trolls is the compassionate thing to do as it forces them to confront their own inadequacies and to stop shitting on other people’s nature strips.
My missus thought Gillard looked terrific and she’s less fond of her than I am.
Like I said, Steve: the worst sex abuse scandal in Australian history.
If only they were free to marry…
Defence abuse taskforce now investigating almost 2,500 complaints, Stephen Smith confirms.
Gab,
Yes. I find a lot of good articles and comments at SDA.
CL,
Specsavers are having a sale. 🙂
The informal ‘prison justice’ system within jails often gets their sentencing a lot closer to community expectations than the courts do…. and in this case it couldn’t happen to a bigger scumbag.
Deadman, you are my hero.
I literally have tears running down my cheeks, thank you.
I’m in moderation?
Was it the ‘rodeo sex’ joke?
You’ve used a bad word, Brian. You’ve just got to figure out what it is. 🙂
I have seen the light and now support the celibacy of the priesthood. It ensures a more complete devotion to their flock, and hopefully ensures maximum creative energy to that end.
I fear that it is an incomplete strategy, however, and will argue for them to be teetotal and almost completely vegetarian as well. Celibacy on its own is not enough.
Mate, consider yourself lucky then. Your neighbour could look like Gillard, or one of those shrieking Green harpys.
That’s always been a protestant virtue.
Catholics drink.
Lots.
Another little gem via SDA.
Bureaucracy gone mad.
Ontario couple finds 400-year-old skeleton, gets $5,000 bill
Ah thanks Tom.
Just spotted which word it probably is…
..but without an edit function…
Hey Deadman, if I decide to go into politics, will you be my speechwriter?
You are a very cunning linguist.
He’s very good, Huck, and the latest is a cracker.
Good Lord, Sinclair. You call that an “interesting” comment? Don’t you go getting all soft-heartened now.
Gab – how he chooses to expend his comment for the day is his business.
I assume that you two are talking about the troll who shall not be named, but can the rest of us get in on the secret?
Fair enough, O Mighty Doomlord. Nothing further shall be said.
Yes, Huckleberry Chunkwot; I’ll write or edit speeches any time.
Yea right. Just like the ACC investigation was the “black day for Australian sport” and “the Bringing Them Home Report” uncovered thousands of racist kidnappings.
If I remember correctly, there has only been one finding that an Aborigine was ‘stolen’ and not a single conviction yet from the ACC enquiry.
So far the Defence enquiry has involved a legal firm being paid a lazy $10 mil to listen to complaints and now another ‘task force’ listening to a few more. Call me Mr Skeptical but if there ends up more than 100 convictions I’ll go hee.
Is there an exercise bike in his room, Brian?
🙂
Has Bernanke been fired or what!?
Don’t do that.
It just encourages me to go looking.
Four minutes in life I won’t get back.
Labor members had gathered together
For the call went out from TLS
Someone had mucked up at last night’s do
They’d given a wink they’d come to rue
A hush descended ov’r em all now
She entered to the whisper of “ly’n cow”
Her steely gaze swept thru the room
Her voice was cracked but ready to boom
She started out angry and weeping loud
How dare you lot think I’m too proud
Her voice went quiet and barely a whisper
I won’t go she swore numbers were with her
A murmur began and only got louder
The caucus was ready and out to pound her
She shrieked you’ll never catch me as outside she fled
Off to see the GG before the vote could be read
The GG was waiting and looked devine
Julia dashed in and said can you save mine
The GG called for tea and eyed her side door
In came Bill, and Julia was no more.
Was Steve from Brisbane banned, or self-banished? What did he do? What is his ‘one comment a day’ rule?
Pres. Obama sticks his nose into Catholic education in IRELAND
Mind your own business, Soetoro.
Meet the next Adrian Bayley.
Man rapes two children after drugging them, threatens to have them killed by bikies if they talk.
http://www.skynews.com.au/national/article.aspx?id=881471
Pickles
No …. Isn’t that what Mark Bahnisch from LP wore when he was interviewed on ABC TV a couple of years ago? And came across as a right goose … kept looking at himself in the off-camera monitor. But all the LP’ers told him what a great job he did … lots of smoke blowing 😉
So where is Steve’s comment?
My mistake, He raped three children, not two.
Man who drugged and raped three teen girls could serve only two years in jail.
Annoying the shit out of people here. Lying. Rudeness. Abusive. Passive aggressive. Attacking the gals. Obsessed with CL. Weather panicker. Hi alanist.
That’s just the start.
How can this be more easily explained?
On the Sanger thread – I saw it before and skipped over it.
This country is a cesspit.
Thanks, commies!
Simple observation — devastating politics:
Needless to say, *crickets* at the ABC — nada, nothing — and buried at ShakeMyHead.com.
Sorry, JC – I meant to ask, is Steve allowed one comment a day on the Cat? If so, does he use that opportunity?
James, Shitfer was exhausted. He’d been trolling the Cat 17 hours a day for a month.
This happens in Australia as well:
People I know got stuck with an $80k bill as they were obliged to allow a similar person fosic around for pottery shards. As there was a DA dependent on the matter in an area with a Greens lead council so they had to pay. That # does not include the interest carry costs while all work was halted.
Yes, it appears as though he is going to avail himself of this new found opportunity.
You kidding, he’s doing cartwheels over the fact he wasn’t banned outright.
Don’t remind me of him. He’s so annoying.
And that’s why it has always been rumoured that various ‘sacred sites’ – rock paintings etc – have been bulldozed by station owners over the years.
Interesting photos
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/the-pulse-live/politics-live-june-20-2013-20130620-2ok2c.html
Tickets appears to be in a trance. Sarah Hansen Young has had her couch remade as a frock. And the droner is wearing a dress (in one photo and her wife looks a bit hot now that I think of it)!
We need minimum gaol terms for sexual offences. A 5 year head sentence for rape is WHOLLY inadequate.
Oooh! A fisking!
Cool
Numbers:
Knowing people who work there, and/or having worked with them in times past, and having hardcopies of their publicly available reports hardly equates to ‘inside knowledge’, my dear chap. It equates to ‘knowing what I am talking about”. Unlike your good self.
Everyone has access to publicly available statistics, Numbers. As did you when you mendaciously compared 13 years of air arrivals to one year of boat arrivals. The only difference lies in how one uses them, honestly like myself, or dishonestly, as you did.
Now, on to your begging me to do your research for you. Note firstly that I would NEVER ask people I know for this data for private purposes. Not only is that quite unethical, I would be asking them to committ breaches of the APS Code of Conduct – a very serious matter. I would NEVER exploit professional contacts in this manner, I am not dishonest. It’s unbelievable that you ask someone, in public, to dishonestly (and perhaps criminally) exploit their contacts in this way. But you ARE a leftist, and I assume you would not hesitate to behave in this immoral, deeply unethical way.
For you to attempt to incite me to do this is a clear illustration of just how dishonest you are.
If such data is available in the public domain, you can find it either on DIAC’s website, or in some of the many academic studies which have been conducted on this matter. Follow the links I provided earlier, should you be so able.
I seriously doubt that this data is available (at least completely), in public fora.
What’s amusing about this is that you are begging me to do your research for you. While I appreciate your grovelling, this seems a sad commentary on your assessment of your own abilities, which you appear to grade as ‘abysmal’. I’d concur with that assessment.
Thanks, commies!
No! Why wasn’t I told?
I thought it was the Muslims!
James Gandolfini dead – what a great shame. And at just 51, too. Good actor, from what little I know of him he seems to have no injuries/illnesses/abuse issues in his youth (aside from the same ‘stupid teenager’ stuff every man worth his salt has done) which might help explain his very untimely death.
What a shame.
I have not finally decided my headwear for next week Septimus. There’s the deer stalker, the Bulawayo pith helmet (shades of Gunner Sugden) or a newly gifted rusty WWII tin hat with the letters “WC” inscribed inside the head lining. Beleived to be genuine.
Gandolfini was very overweight.
Great actor.
During the Sopranos, he would walk about with a stone in his shoe and stay up all night to make himself really, really angry for his character.
And when he depicted anger, my oh my…
Here’s the scene where he deals with Coco – who had sexually insulted his daughter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeJdVwyTFfc
While you were using your CIA contacts to ascertain any incidents in Gandolfini’s youth that may have led to his untimely demise, you may have overlooked the fact that he was a fat fuck.
Indeed.
Mr Meagher is well entitled to ask the question I have asked here as well.
That is, if Adrian Bayley’s crime did not attract the full tariff, what would he have to do to get 25 years?
And that question is also valid for his previous exploits when he got 11 with a minimum of 8 for his second rampage, bringing his total (known) victims to twenty.
Here’s hoping for a cycling accident similar to Fat Carl’s.
I’d thought perhaps that the plague had ravaged the ABC’s Canberra bureau and they were unable to be in parliament for Abbott’s devastating speech, which was reported by the rest of the media, but the there was only one matter of interest for the green left in parliament today:
Censorship by omission is not rampant at Their ABC, which is worth every billion they confiscate from us.
a backdoor way eh?
Strike a light. An anti-nanny state article in Fairfax:
Why the speed limit should rise.
Yup, Their ABC, The Green Left
WeeklyHourly, tune in now to ABC24 for a dose of indoctrination.ABC headline: Liberal Senator Sue Boyce crosses floor on same-sex marriage bill.
The picture shows her strolling across to the Labor side and the top pars are all about that stroll.
Paragraph 7:
Trust me.
It isn’t worth the four mouse clicks to get there from here.
If you relied on Fairfax and their ABC for your news, you’d be forgiven for thinking Tony Abbott never held any pressers, doorstops, interviews nor gave any speeches outside Parliament.
I have never watched The Sopranos, because I was told it was violent.
I just watched that link. I am sure the actor was a very nice man, but oh dear …..
Tim Tam and a cup of tea now, I think. Then back to my book on the history of words.
ps. apols for replying to SfB, but I feel that when he is corralled it is safe to do so.
He is also trying hard to be relevant (not really succeeding). He is also crying out for some ‘conservative catholics’ to notice him.
I know I am too soft-hearted. Perhaps I will steel myself for The Sopranos sometime. Or not.
I’m surprised they’d wait until now, but the howler monkey left has finally begun the historic rewrite: not only will a big Coalition majority be bad for democracy, but the Abbott monster has terminally damaged the parliamentary institution — brought to you by Jonathan Greenslime:
The ALPBC really is a fetid swamp of Left groupthink.
Moose Knuckles quotes the Old Lezzo as an authority on the effectiveness of Parliament.
As they say, bwahahahahaaaa … Surely that is done by counting the number of bills passed?
IT:
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i know some fat people who are quite old. Being fat is not always an indicator of poor health, as a stay in Samoa or Tonga shows.
Seems while I was reading SfB’s link and replying and doing a bit of absent staring out of the window, quite a few others gave him (or at least his ideas) some attention. There you are Stevie, one comment a day keeps the misery away but no risk of you ODing. Dr. Doomlord’s prescription is working. If you really need to, you can post your further thoughts daily on your own blog. Perfect.
Wasn’t she threatening to cross the floor on the ETS as well?
I remember sending some particularly stern letters to the Lib senators that were going to go through with that little ruse.
“What should the speed limit be for Australia’s main highways?”
130 km/h – 39%
More than 130 km/h – 35%
What does a well prepared scotsman carry in his sporran?
A passport, 457 visa and a one way airline ticket.
Oh, really? Nothing perilously dysfunctional in their policies or debt making, O Condescending One? And you are totally reconciled to a big, big, big loss? And it’s all Abbott’s fault, plus KevKevKev?
I take it that Kev the One-Man Cavalry riding in to single-handedly save the day is not for you, then?
It’s not going to be Rudd, imo. COuld it be Carr, CWB?
Come on down … Prime Minister Swan.
I’m tempted to follow his example from 2007 and make a Jonathan Greenslime pinata to mark to fall of the worst government in Australian history.
blockquote>I take it that Kev the One-Man Cavalry riding in to single-handedly save the day is not for you, then?
Oh, no, Lizzie, to fruitcakes like Greenslime, the Little Shit is part of the VRWC. The ABC bunker supports the one true communist candidate, the Lying Slapper. The Little Shit gets favourable coverage at Their ABC only in as far as he is an enemy of the Great Satan.
Six months ago I thought he might put himself forward as a “save the furniture” compromise candidate.
He has Bill’s (Ludwig not Pieman) backing and he wouldn’t give a rat’s about the impending thrashing, as long as his portrait went into the Great Hall and he scored a pension uplift.
I misunderestimated the back-lash in the wider community for his budgetary incompetence.
I now don’t think he is a chance.
And there’s the problem – after six years in power they haven’t got one adult capable of running a school BBQ, much less the country.
Come on down … Prime Minister Albansleazey.
I’ve been away. What was the issue, or particular comment, over which Steve from Brisbane was defenestrated and limited to one comment a day?
Don’t think it wise for Tony Abbott to be mentioning Pauline Hanson, the woman whose wrongful imprisonment he was behind and for which he, in an uncharacteristically unChristian way, is unrepentant.
She didn’t set out to divide Australians; she was concerned about immigration levels and multicultural tribalism. There’s a difference. Looking at Europe today and our own problems with recent rapid influxes of people from different cultures, it is not an unreasonable concern.
James in Melbourne – Head to the exiled fruitcake’s blog and ask him directly.
He’d love to hear from you and you know it makes sense…
There’s one who could organise a root in a brothel, but he’s finally left.
So let me see if I get this straight.
“Gay marriage” has been voted down in the ALP controlled parliament twice.
I trust that is the last we’ll hear of it.
The forgotten man:
Federal leadership:
Julia Gillard 1.75
Kevin Rudd 2.05
Bill Shorten 15.00
Simon Crean 17.00
Greg Combet 41.00
Chris Bowen 51.00
That it has been voted down twice. Yes.
The fabricated concept of “marriage equality” which has been rejected by the parliament on many occassions. No. Watch it emerge as an issue when Abbott666 becomes PM.
Anyone skimming most of the media reports about Sarah Hyphen-Hyphens Bill to recognise foreign homosexual “marriage” would think that it was narrowly defeated and the Liberals were fully on side with it.
Great mileage made of LINO senator Sue Boyce (Qld) crossing the floor, and virtually totally ignored the vote 44 against 28 for the Bill.
Orwell’s Ministry of Truth is alive and well.
They better not dump her… I want voters to have the privilege. She’s never been endorsed by the Australian people – September is our chance to disendorse her resoundingly.
Yay! Now, what would the stupidest man alive – Preshizzle (Paco™) Odumbugger, do to turn this massive goat rodeo he has helped to create into a world-class cluster f*** of epic proportions?
Naah, surely even that idiot is not thick enough to send them guns….
Mark Dayton and the Amazon Tax
What’s amusing about this is that you are begging me to do your research for you.
What is even more amusing is that are apparently unwilling to post the information. I wonder why? I’m disappointed – you masquerade as a fearless seeker of the truth.
The fearless seeker of the truth obviously has something to hide.
What? The ALP voted against homosexual ‘marriage’?
The ALP?
Well, no wonder there are heads exploding all over the Australian Bolshevik Collective, as well as wails and a funny gnawing sound as
peoplecreatures there gnaw carpets and chair legs.There goes any chance of working out just what the heck the celebrant would say in the ‘marriage’ ceremony. I heard that ‘I now pronounce you pitcher and catcher’ was right out, but that the Tolkien fan’s fave, ‘I now pronounce you ringwearers’, was still in with a chance.
Now, we will never know….
Follow the money, Fleeced. The bookies don’t think the backbench rabbits have the gumption to pitchfork her out. She will not resign and she has all those union proxies protecting her back. What are they going to do when she refuses to go quietly and announces she will recontest the leadership even if there is another spill? I think she’ll go the suicide bomber option and blow the place up — off to Yarralumla.
THE GERMAN SOLAR DISASTER: 21 BILLION EUROS BURNED
AUD drops 3c in 24hrs.
Australian shares have hit the day’s lows, losing more than $30b in value, after weak Chinese data rattled investors already spooked by the Fed’s plans to wind back its stimulus.
Markets Live: World of pain for bulls
Dunno. While Whoopi deservedly copped a lot of flack for her statement when defending the child rapist Roman Polanski, there indeed are degrees of rape.
There was a case in Perth a decade or more ago of the “30 Second Rapist”. He was having consensual sex with a woman when 30 seconds from the vinegar stroke she asked him to stop. He didn’t and he was sent to jail. Can’t remember how long he got, however he was eventually let out and exonerated. Turns out it had been a plan concocted by the woman and his ex wife.
Regardless of the women’s evil plan, I wouldn’t think his offence warrants a minimum five years in jail.
No fossil fuel was harmed in the destruction of these moneys.
Don’t you feel sick reading this knowing how these trogs are basically destroying our industry through fraudulent high wages and energy prices going through the roof.
Hmm. Interesting viewpoint.
My dear Numbers, there is no need for your empty little head to be so puzzled! For I told you why, you want this info, I do not, therefore you go and find it. I even told you where to start to look – on DIAC’s website.
How sad.
Of course, refuting your lies would lead to this perception on your part. Thanks for admitting that you are a fearlessly mendacious chap of low moral character.
Ooh! I do so like chuckling at the vapid maunderings of the conspiracy whackjob’s mind. Do tell us more.
And in fact, I do have something to hide! Specifically the new 100mm stormwater drainage line, in the pipe-trench I am digging on my block. There, your little tinfoil-wrapped noggin should exult over this.
Does this mean I can blame the clay on you?
I have never been an overtly political person, but this disgusting rabble has got me so fired up that I am seriously considering joining the Victorian Liberal party.
As I have never been a member of such an organisation, can anybody share their thoughts as to the pro’s and cons of such a move.
My motivations are primarily financial (contribute to the war chest) as I live in one of the safest ALP seats in the country, any sort of campaigning effort will effectively be pissing into the wind.
Have people that have joined a party suffered any repercussions within their workplace or community?
I am really interested in the views of the wider Cat community.
From JC’s link:
Meanwhile, at the arse end of the world as PK put it:
So sorry I’m late. Is it too late to say I liked Julia Gillard’s hairdo at the Midwinter Ball too, but I suspect she had very sturdy foundation garments on? Whereas I suspect Julie Bishop didn’t have quite such sturdy ones; she does a lot of running and working out.
Gosh, Malcolm Turnbull’s looking old, but.
Margie Abbott looked magnificent.
Huckleberry – if you do it is best you keep this to yourself.
I once worked at Parliament as a public servant while in a party. I served both sides properly but this would be something you should refrain from sharing!
I think the level of “support” for SSM in the electorate is being blown a wee bit out of proportion by its fringe extremist proponents.
Which way did Peter Slipper go in the Reps?
The doors are locked and Philippa’s running late. Would somebody let her in as I’m focused on my Tim tams and tea.
Don’t do it, Chunks. The liberals are infested with big government, gerbil worming, high taxing, nanny state numpties.
Save your money. Join the LDP, Huck or the IPA.
We talked about this awhile ago and the consensus was they’ll take your money and time and then want you to shutup about the running of the party or its platform.
However I think if a critical mass of people got into the party they could make some change?
Or both.
Huck, Thought of this, as posted by Sinc yesterday.
The HR Nicholls Society is having a membership promotion.
The first 30 persons who apply to join the society before 5:00pm Friday June 28 will have their joining fee waived, and receive a 50% discount on the Annual Conference & Dinner – a saving of $120!
For over 30 years the HR Nicholls Society has been at the forefront of the fight to reform Australia’s outdated industrial relations system.
As a member of the HR Nicholls Society, you will be entitled to exclusive event invitations, regular newsletters from the Society, and most importantly, you will be playing a key role in ensuring a return to a free and fair labour market in Australia.
President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim provides today’s Helen Lovejoy moment, on your ALPBC Green Left Weekly Hour formerly known as The World Today,
Chunks – Gab makes a good point. I’ve joined the IPA because they do some sterling work and are excellent value for money. They’re also not infected with socialist scumbags like the liberals.
The IPA is easily the best bang-for-your-buck political org in the country.
It’s amazing how much cash has been burned on renewable energy. The sackings and enquiries should be in epidemic proportions, but nothing so far. Not even a peep of backlash against the swindlers who have made off with probably a trillion worldwide in the last ten years.
All because anyone who stood up and said calmly that the sums do not add up was called every name under the sun. Dinosaurs, deniers, and worse. But they were right all along. The sums do not, and will mever add up.
Meanwhile the real investors got to getting gas out of the ground. They have done well, can be proud of unleashing another wave of inexpensive energy that will lead to better living conditions for millions, and it didn’t require anything except beuracrats getting out of their way. No public money spent, taxes paid, people employed, better, cheaper products for all produced. The “evil market” at work again.
The whole thing is ripe for an animal farm type of satirical book.
Yet this is not because the solar cell market has failed, far from it. It is because it has been wildly successful, with China leading the way in mass producing PV cells.
Moral of the story: never get involved in a land war in Asia.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/chinas-suntech-in-bankruptcy-proceedings
More sliming by the Silly Moaner of Mal Brough:
Headline:
But actually, it turns out:
* Contituent emails Brough criticising him over the Gillard joke menu, with a closer: “I expect to hear from you soon”
* He emails a response to her with the Resteraunteur’s statement , but gets no recognition/confirmation of receipt.
* Five days later, he then tries to call.. can’t get a hold of her, so this involves 3-4 calls.
Somehow.. this is interpreted as ‘weird stalking’ by paranoid android complaint submitter, who then says “I didn’t want to talk to him because it just seemed crazy lengths to go to get an apology from a nobody”.
FFS!! if you dno’t want to talk to the bloke, don’t ask him for a f’in response!
Correct. I joined because the IPA was the only organisation that gave a shit about protecting the press from the leftist totalitarian scum in Canberra.
Moral of the story: m8nty should stick to wandering aimlessly around golf courses.
FMD is he serious? Climate change science is the best we’ve got?
Jones, Mann, Flannery and Lewandowsky? They’re the best? If that is truly the case then we are all doomed.
Another Silly Moaning Herald Headline:
Yes Gab, thanks for supporting my point. Suntech failed because the PV market has become massively commoditised.
There is a glut of PV product, and individual companies will suffer if they saddled themselves with too much debt in the run-up, but the point is that the industry is succeeding as far as making the products affordable to a massive install base.
Yea sure M0nty. I was there in late March. Despite the increased CO2 in the atmosphere, it was snowing.
Of course they are. Producing them for the gullible self-flagellating West . They are also leading the way in increasing their CO2 emissions. Year after year.
uh-huh. Sure. You crowed, it already failed. QED,
Don’t do it, Chunks. The liberals are infested with big government, gerbil worming, high taxing, nanny state numpties.
Of course, the only way that the Liberal Party will be weaned off these ideas is if their membership itself argues against them.
I will if you will Huck. But that blacksmith fellow has got me thinking about the DLP.
The figleaf of justification by which Shake My Head (and no doubt, the ABC) make for highlighting Senator Boyce’s decision to vote for the bill while failing to acknowledge the Labor senators who voted against it.
Since high summer is approaching in the northern hemisphere, I’m dreaming of the ultimate G&T* in the humid heat on my daughter’s porch in East Nashville, Tennessee.
*I just found this on her FB page. She’s a Tanqueray girl.
Followed, perhaps, by an icy Arrogant Bastard.
Or a Gin Rickey, Tom.