G’day Possums,
Time
for celebrations…. 
The Wombat’s No:1 daughter has arrived home after another
year in France and a surprise gathering was organised for her close friends by
daughter No:2 and one of the friends. Unbeknown to daughter No:2: she had been
deliberately misinformed as to the correct time of No:1's arrival and was thus and duly happily
surprised herself.
So the surprise was completed at Collingwoodworld ta’s to
Layla for helping organise things.
Second celebration was daughters No:1 tale that Wilde’s
tomb at Pere Lachaise had not only been cleaned up but also protected from his
“admirers”. I was quite appalled at its condition and the mentality behind the
state of this stele when we saw it last year.
I found this recent sample of the new “look” at
The sculpture is made from Hoptonwood stone, a good
architectural limestone that fairly well can absorb oils, inks and vegetation
stains. If you examine the image of
the surface of the newly cleaned sculpture you will see that the “love-damage”
is still apparent.
Each time this type of stone is cleaned the detail is
abraded away, ultimately till nought is left.
I can more readily understand the raison d’etre of the
Taliban dynamiting the ancient Buddhas in Afghanistan than I can the slow
destruction of a memorial by you, of someone you allegedly like and
admire. Perhaps it’s a childishly
plaintive cry in seeking identity or recognition?
Politics
Mr Rabbit gave his reply to the federal budget...... fizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......
He was defended by one Right Winger (“Boris” Kroger, power
maker with a sweet tooth [whose "ex"
btw has just been dumped from the Federal No1 place on the Senate ticket] ) as “…a Rhodes Scholar in economics..” to which a
talk-back caller quipped, “You mean
roads, dontcha?” (Mr Rabbit is a keen cyclist). Jon Faine ABC.774
Same RW is also in a spat with a former colleague Peter
Costello, but said Costello was “Aus’s greatest treasurer..) Uuuumm…. I know he
spent like fury before every election and funded wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
to the tune of $20 billion whilst refusing to acknowledge infrastructure,
educational, medical, environment and development needs.
Allegedly a poll of business types when he first got the
job suggested they thought him an idiot.
Costello’s timing (as noted in a prior post) of this
latest infantile dummy spit is……. superb! Virtually wiped Mr Rabbit’s reply
speech away…. Which is probably a good thing as he fired shots that were
blanks.
(Another talk-back quip, “We need an Abbott and Costello in
parliament!”)
Costello's seen walking from a plotting session with
Kelly O Dwyer…..I want to know who was giving Bitchy lessons to whom?
Mr Rabbit says he wants Aussie kids to have better foreign
language skills, whilst saying he’ll vote down a Labor budget initiative,
“School Kids” bonus. Perhaps he’ll have a chat with Mr Kennett ( ex Liarbril
premier, Victoria) and see where all the language teachers went after they
were made redundant some 12 years ago?
Mr Rabbit also wants to abolish the mining tax “ … will make Australia a better place to
invest and let the world know that we don’t punish success”.
Hmmmmm… “….a better place to invest…” Invest in?
or Invade?
Hope I quoted a “typo”.
So, the world’s richest woman along with the biggest Queensland
miner (6 billion-dollar-man) need tax breaks?
Mr Rabbit thinks that the Labor budget was… “…an ignoble
piece of work ….. that will offend the intelligence of the Australian people”.
I rather think that the Liarbril Party is by design offensive;
that their pre-selections catfights are the really ignoble things in the best
of middle class, aspirational bad taste and that they seem conflicted as to their own meagre policy positions.
In the Tardis STATE of Victoria where everything goes
backward, the Minister for Anti Corruption Andrew McIntosh….. looks, in a meeting,
like he really shouldn’t be there ‘cause he’s really not interested and why
should you be …oohhh this is boring….
But thinks the new guidelines for anti-corruption are fantastic.
Law Council and opposition think they are Byzantine and designed to obfuscate!
He is also “unavailable” to discuss this matter with the
redoubtable and attractive Josie Taylor on ABC “Victoria”.
Hello Mr Baillieu.
Poor Ms Josie T. then gets to interview the Baillieu
appointed Governor of the Tardis State…….
Daughter No:1 could have opined … “at least Sarkozy had
panache…” Mrs Wombat begins to snore…
so I’ll leave you Possums with these quotes from “The
Age”…..
“Mr Chernov replaces a man not afraid to speak out.
Professor de Kretser used his own migrant experience to criticise the Howard
government's citizenship test, and passionately warned of the consequences of
climate change”.
“But it is clear Mr Chernov will not be an activist. Asked
if there were issues he would pursue, Mr Chernov said: ''I'll leave those
things to the Premier. He decides the issues.''
And because we're
talking of dead things….. another image from Pere Lachaise......
and one from the beautiful Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
cheers Petals,
Shane.
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